Rocks

As mentioned in my last post, our backyard is ALMOST done! We are sooo close. It was a team effort- 99% Bill, 1% me. He found time to work out back while I was bathing kids, or doing dinner dishes, or mopping the floor- most of the work was done late at nigth when it was cool. That is, except the rock. We ordered River Rock (for those of you not familiar with the beauty of 'desert landscaping', we can choose btwn. river rock & desert rock) from the local nursery to be delivered last Saturday morning. The truck showed up 5 hours late, and then we learned that we'd ordered 3-12 inch rock instead of the 4-6 inch rock that we had in mind. So, as you can see, some of the rocks are VERY big. Consequently we had about 1 ton of rock extra. What you see is the extra rock, I'm unsuccessfully trying to sell it on Craig's list- any takers?

The best part of the story is how the rock made it from the front to the back. We borrowed a wheel barrow from our wonderful neighbors, the Leathers. On the 3rd trip to the back, the axel of the wheel broke in half. It was 2:30 p.m., 110 degrees, and was I down town with my family. Bill called to ask if I'd pick up a new wheelbarrow on my way home. When I got home around 4, he had carried about 2 tons of rock to the back yard using buckets. What a man! He didn't want to leave the whole pile in the road overnight & was anxious to see how it looked in the back. It's not quite what we had in mind, but we still like it. Stay tuned for some pictures of our completed yard....