The Yard - Part I

We have been working on lots of "Yard projects" over the last few weeks...we are quite ambitious and are trying to get them all done before the wedding July 18th... =)

This is a view of our back yard from our back door. You can see at least half the yard was covered in gravel where the previous home-owners would park their RV. We are going to be digging up much of the gravel, putting down new dirt, and laying sod so we will have a larger grassy backyard.

This is also looking out our back door but to the right side. This faces the main road (Barton) so we are eager to put in a fence to give us some privacy and cut down on the noise. We got a few estimates from fence companies to fence in our whole backyard and they all came in at about $3k. Although it'd be really nice to have someone do it all in one day... we decided we can do this project ourselves and it is only costing us about $1,ooo (cedar posts, wood, and cement from Home Depot, as well as a few other supplies and lots of back breaking labor)... what a deal!
Same side of the house from the opposite view.
The "Old Fence" coming down (calling it a fence is being generous... it was really random pieces of old wood...). It'll make great firewood.