Curb Appeal Part 1

May 16, 2009
Our front yard has been somewhat neglected lately. We've spent most of our time, sweat, and money fixing up the backyard since we bought our house five years ago. But today, the hard work begins to "curb appeal" the front flower beds. Well, technically it started yesterday with me putting planting petunias in the flower pots on the front porch. I need to replant some of them, but that's a story for another day. We ripped out the cheap, black, plastic stuff that lined the front of the flower beds and started setting a new wall of pavers. Lucky for me a nice salesman at Lowe's saw me struggling to push the second load of them to the truck (with Pearl sitting on top of them) and offered to take them to help Jeff load them. Who knew a bunch of concrete blocks could be so expensive? And we didn't even buy as many as we knew we'd need, let alone the top blocks to finish it off!!! We didn't quite finish the first flower bed - one paver away only because we have to move the water pipes first - but it looks better already!