After several weeks of waiting plus a few days of actual work: our house has a new front yard. In place of a completely flat, sparsely covered yard; we now have boulders, a riverbed, and cactus. And we think it looks amazing.

We had a local landscaping company, KPW Landscape, do all the work for us. We originally had a several bushes, a mini-rose garden, a messy flowerbed, and lots of bare spots of dirt. Needless to say, we were quite unhappy with it.

Now we have a rolling riverbed with river rock, large ribboned boulders, bermed hills, and several small cactus. It should be a lot easier for us to take care of in addition to looking quite good.

In fact, it looks great when viewing it from our kitchen table. It makes spending time in the dining room much more enjoyable and relaxing.

Finally, we had to keep a Caterpillar tractor in our garage for a night. The landscaping company had to hold it there overnight between days when they were working. Apparently, the tractors have common keys and if you had one you could have taken off with it. So I took an opportunity to take a few funny shots of myself sitting in it. Can you feel the drama in my face as I work the controls?