Sunday, April 11, 2010

I've Been Busy

Just a quick post. I have been taking a couple classes this week to finish up the credits I need for renewing my educator's license. I have enjoyed both of them, but especially enjoyed the photoshop class. I am excited for all the possibilities it opens up with all the bad pictures I have taken. I have been doing things backward in many ways and have some new techniques to try out. Here's a before and after of Kate.



We also brought in 12 loads of dirt to start sloping and grading our yard. Thanks to a neighbor whose brother is building homes in the area we were able to get some dirt from where they dug the foundations for the price of renting the truck. It is fairly rocky, like the rest of our yard, but we will take the bigger rocks out and then spread it around the yard. Then we are going to bring in a bunch more really good topsoil to cover it. Lots of work, we know. Definitely not the easy way, but hopefully a less expensive route to where we want to end up. I would be lying if I said I wasn't somewhat apprehensive about how this will all go, especially considering the fact that our neighbor popped out of her house to ask us "What happened?". (Does that imply that she thinks we are crazy? The answer is probably and we probably are...)

So if there aren't any posts until October, it is safe to assume I am buried somewhere beneath all that we have got going on...

3 comments:

Suzanne said...

I couldn't live without my photoshop skills. Good luck with all the yard work...post an update photo every now and again. We want to share in the progress. And your kids are adorable!

hoffblog said...

Good luck with all the dirt. I can see the color difference in Kate's picture-nice work. That's a cute one of her!!!

Adam and Debbie said...

We got one load of soil from Adam's uncle's ranch and it took us FOREVER to get it moved where we wanted. My suggestion: invite all your friends over for a "Dirt Party" and tell them to bring wheelbarrows and shovels and feed them pizza afterwords. Even the kids can help. Good luck and happy gardening!