Father's Day

We celebrated Father's Day by going out for lunch at Soup Plantation. Dan made Mike a Father's Day card as you can see. Then Dan and Mike started the big project of moving Dan's stuff from our garage to his. Yesterday Dan removed all his stuff from the metal shelves and disassembled the shelves. Today Dan and Mike dissasembled the work bench and took it to Dan's garage and reassembled it. Phase one accomplished. Phase two will be to assemble the metal shelving and bring all of Dan's stuff which is in the middle of our garage floor to his garage.

Paver Job Completed

Today, Saturday the workers completed our paver landscaping job. All they had to do is sweep sand into the joints and clean up. It looks beautiful and now we can plant ground cover to complete the landscaping job!

Veggie garden pictures

Here are pictures of our new vegetable garden that Cindy took.

Paver job

Although we intended to do the paver job in our front yard ourselves we got an estimate from a paver company called Genesis Stoneworks just for the heck of it. After some negotiating we got such a good deal that we decided to have them do it. We were having trouble finding the right color of paver. Our house is blue gray with a charcoal roof. Most houses are earthtone colors around here so the paver manufacturers offer most earthtone colors. We found a charcoal grey color we liked at a building supply store from a picture so we ordered just one pallet and when it arrived the color looked almost like plain concrete color so they sent it back. With Genesis Stoneworks, http://www.genesisstoneworks.com/home/ - we found just the right color. They will start next Wednesday it will take 2 or 3 days. If we did it ourselves it might take who knows how long. We did a lot of research on installation and feel confident we could do it but a lot of it would be trial and error and we would have to rent a paver cutter at 56$ a day. There will be a lot of cuts because it is a curving walkway. It is going to look nice. Here are more pictures of the demo.

Concrete Demolition

The next step in our paver project in the front yard was to demolish the concrete walkway in front of our house. That's really hard work and after about three swings with our sledge hammer we decided to get help. We got a good estimate and they started it today. We thought they would use a jackhammer but they started just using a sledge hammer and big pry bar. One guy hammered and when the concrete cracked the other guy would pry up the slab. They said a sledge hammr works better becasue it breaks up the concrete in big chunks and is easier and faster to pick up haul away. They will use a jack hammer on the big step in front of the door because it is extra thick. Click on play to see the video of them working away.