It has been very crazy around our house lately. We are getting ready to undergo a major project in our yard. We are getting a 2,500 gallon rainwater storage tank buried in our backyard. We are getting a waterfall and pond put in our backyard. And we are getting our driveway, patio and walkway redone in paving stones. That is the short explanation of all the work.
In order to make way for the expanded backyard patio (which will have gardening areas built in along the edges) we needed to move some of the plants that were back there that we wanted to keep. We also had to move some of the plants in the front yard that we wanted to keep in order to make space for the new walkway to the front door and the new patio area in front of the house.
We also had to get rain gutters installed on the house in the areas that correspond to the intake areas for the rainwater storage tank. We are also having a trench put in under the driveway to catch any water that runs down the driveway, even with the paving stones due to the grade of our driveway we are expected to water make it down the driveway (especially in heavy rains).
We have also been busy going back and forth with the designers to make sure everything is going to work together properly. We had them go back last week and maximize the size of our storage tank for the rain water. They also added to the design for the backyard irrigation to be fed off of the rainwater when it is available, three separate types of irrigation for the backyard (one for our citrus trees, one for our garden and one for the small grass area we are keeping back there).
We are really looking forward to this very large project being completed. Of course at that point we still need to plant things in the yard and have a fence installed in the front yard, but we are certainly getting there.
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