hours of work and some back pain later ...

i spent all weekend raking leaves and piling rocks to plant rye grass seed.... here are some photos of the corner i did the weekend before last!

isn't it dreamy? i raked the rest of the yard on saturday and planted grass seed over the rest of it. i think it'll be well worth the hours of back pain that i endured that night. i mixed the grass seed with bermuda seed, because the rye grass will die once it gets hot again. and the hope is that the bermuda will come in by then. this came as a tip from a lady that we bought something from craigslist off of. she had done this same thing and i fell in love with it.

here's some photos as it was in progress:

for some reason on sunday i woke up and decided that hauling rocks (our back yard has a lot of rocks in it) to the front yard was a good idea. here's the end result (as well as a few more hours of back pain - but nothing that a cocktail in the rocking chair didn't fix).

i don't know if you can see. but there's rocks in between the plants now. yep, that took about four hours of collecting and hauling.

you can also see the new columns on the front porch. they are all going to be framed off like the one in the bottom photo to the right, except the framing will be on the top too - and then they'll be painted white.

sean also rehung the front door and reframed it (it has been chiseled a lot so the door could fit when the house moved). see how the top of the door frame sticks out a little farther on each side? i love it, kind of gives it a country look.

and here are some photos of the progress we're making in the living room:

it's still pretty bare, but we're coming along I think.

I'm off to san francisco tomorrow so i won't be doing anymore house work for a week or so. but we'll see what sean comes up with! and maybe by the time i come back we'll have a whole backyard of grass!