Landscaping

My blogs been fairly quiet recently because I've been doing a major amount of landscaping in the backyard. Here's a summary of all that's been done:

• Buried low voltage landscape lighting lines
• Pulled up uneven brick pathway tree roaches were living in
• Got rid of remaining junk pile
• Installed hose bib for backyard

• sledgehammered up, not one, not two, but THREE layers of concrete sidewalk—laid one on top of the other 

• Installed backyard pathway
• Sloped terrain away from pathway
• Created swales and berms using remaining clay from dumptruck
• Tilled soil + laid topsoil + laid grass around pathway

• Split up bucket of ginger, created bed and planted along back of house

• Prepped and laid topsoil + grass along side of neighbors house
• Dug drainage trench along driveway + filled it with paving stone

• Cleared out brush for clear line of site to 200 year old water oak

• Graded landscape so terrain slopes away from house (this has solved the pool of water issue under the house)
• Planted a Texas Vitex in the front

• and saved a baby toad