"SVTKate" wrote in message link.net...

Sounds really pretty.
Well, since we only bought this place at the beginning of this year, so far
we have not done much to the yard because I have been so busy peeling ugly
wallpaper and repainting ... you know.. that girl thing. Remodeling a couple
of the bathrooms.

I did the opposite. When we moved in two years ago, I started on the
outside with the trees and shrubs then moved in doors. I figured get
the plants planted and growing, go inside to do the inside stuff, then
go back out to finish off the yard.

So far I have gotten for the yard...
LOL.. a Husky 22hp - 48" deck lawn tractor and went back to California to
pick up our Kubota tractor. We mow and brush-hog about half of our place and
the rest is in wild woods pretty much
We have a nice big pond that we are trying to come up with some ideas on and
I am thinking that I would like to terrace down to it from the house and
maybe put a pier out over it. The problem with that is that this summer we
killed half a dozen snakes down there. It kind of took the romance out of
the whole pond thing.

That's nature. As long as they're not poisonous, I wouldn't worry
about 'em.

We have a few Dogwoods out amongst the trees.

I love Dogwoods! So much them I had to make room in my Cobra to
transport a Cherokee Red version all the way from Atlanta GA to our
home in north Florida.

We spent a while out by the
shop this summer thinning under some big trees. Next year maybe we will get
started on the yard. I call it that in the loosest form of definition I
possibly can get away with .

Your yard sounds pretty. I hope to make a rock garden kind of thing out here
a little at a time.

I did one of those with the shards leftover from building a flagstone
walkway. Both came out really good.

Patrick