Yard Progress

This fall Stephen and I decided to work a little bit on the back yard. We wanted to get some dirt to get the dirt patch all leveled out and plant grass seed. Since half of our yard is torn up we knew we probably couldn't do it all at once, but we could at least get started. So I looked on KSL last week for anyone wanting to get rid of top soil for free. There were plenty of people with free dirt. I hadn't called anyone yet, so I sat down again and looked them up, but just as I was about to I found an ad for free sod. I got a hold of the guy to see if he still had any left. He said he did, but he gave the free stuff away already, but still had sod; he just wanted $50 for it to help cover the cost of his sod cutter rental. I asked how much sod he thought he had, and he said 80-100 square feet. Well, 100 square feet of sod is almost nothing. we needed somewhere around 1,000 square feet to cover all the dirt patch, but we figured it'd be a start and maybe we'd just seed the rest. So we went to pick it up that night, and come to find out, he had way more than 100 square feet, so Stephen asked him which was ours; he said all of it. We ended up taking two truck loads home--around 600 square feet! We were so excited.

The next day we went to the dump and got a truck load of compost to level out the ground, and that one load did half the dirt patch. So, to fix half of our torn up yard cost us only $80! I can't wait to finish it!

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We love our new backyard, and hope the sod comes back to life and greens up a bit, especially since Zander will be able to play a lot more in it next summer, and can't wait to sod or seed the last half. We're hoping to find a swing set to put back there, maybe put in a sand box, and plant a few trees for some shade.