Backyard Before/After

I got home on Monday after Matt and Doug put the sod in and found the table on it's side and the green waste bin tipped over. Doug forgot to put the umbrella down and the winds were so strong it blew the table from where I'm standing to the fence and took out the full and very heavy trash bin with it.Here are the before and after photos:

I kept having to search through our blog to find any before pictures (it's much easier just adding the photos here). We still have some work to do, but it looks great! Yesterday Matt and Doug added an extra row to the retaining wall; it looks much better. We don't have a truck and the window doesn't work in Doug's 4Runner, so we can't open the back of his SUV - so, we stacked all the brick for the extra row inside through the side doors:

Luckily we only needed 60 bricks this time. They are 22.8 pounds each and we've been through 200 bricks. That's not counting the top cap bricks or the bricks we bought for the fire pit. It's quite a work out, but I'm really sick of bricks.

Oh, and we got a lime tree yesterday. Now we have all the fruit trees we want (and all we can fit in our yard). We have orange, mandarin, lime and lemon.