Aunt Sarah had a master plan to landscape Grandma’s poor front yard, so Kate and I drove down to Colorado Springs for the weekend to pitch in. As you can see from the photo above, her grass was all but dead and the whole yard needed to be retrofitted for lower maintenance. For all of you ladies who used to live here and want to see the newly improved front yard, this is for you.

Aaron, who works for a excavation company, was able to bring in a skit loader to do all the hard stuff… such as removing the existing dead grass and reshaping the hill on the right side of the yard.

Here we are replacing the old timbers along the sidewalk with new ones.

Only the dirt remains.

Ben and Brady put in a decorative split rail fence which turned out well.

The girls installing the miles of edging. Here they’re framing out the pathway.

The sand has been laid along the pathway and the rest of the bunch is throwing in mulch while Aunt Sarah and I work on the stepping stones in the walkway. (we had to scavenge several stones from the property, hopefully Grandma won’t notice.)

The lovely ladies planting.

The finished pathway coming from side.

It was about to get dark, but this is the final look at the front yard. It looks even better in person.