Back at it...

Shawn is at it again...thank goodness.
Last summer he designed and built our fabulous deck, as many of us know and have already enjoyed.
On New Years Eve he added (with me as the stone donkey) a beautiful stone patio to step down onto from the deck, not to mention keep the dirt away from the house. It is the perfect spot for grilling and any fire-pit celebrations we might enjoy (someday;).
Now he is at again, to provide our backyard with a lovely lower deck bordered with benched seating just down from the stone patio. This will not only give additional visual beauty, but gets us sitting down IN the gardens.
Of course we still have to design, rototill and plant, but that will be much more enjoyable as we sit on the benches on the edge of the lower deck, sipping coffee with the kids playing either on the deck or the yard space we cleared away last weekend...lots of weeds to chop and pull, but we've made some serious headway!
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Ladies especially, I will be having you over for some food and kid playtime to pick your brains about which plants you see where...you all have such varied and wonderful garden knowledge which our backyard desperately needs. Thanks already to Annie for her ideas about a couple trees and climbing Potato Vines...these are coming!