Landscape Progress

As some of you know, we have been working our little tails off since we have arrived in sunny Florida!! Here are two pictures of the curbing edging that we had installed on the 22nd of December. This yard was a jungle when we arrived!! We had many plants ripped out, as they were dead or overgrown. Weeds had been allowed to grow unchecked for over four years. The original owner of our home stopped by to ask if the path that she & her late husband had built still existed. At the time, I knew there was a small path leading into an oval garden. But after the crap was cleared away, we found a beautiful path winding its way all through this garden. This path just begs for its own garden bench!!

Larry has spent five days (so far!!) on his stomach trying to replace, redesign, and upgrade our old landscape lighting. No small feat!! To date he has used eight boxes of seven lights and still has more to go!! This, of course, is not counting spot lights for the beautiful palms or replacing & upgrading the transformers to carry the additional watts. All the old lighting was black plastic over 15 years. It was crumbling. The new lights are metal and have more watts than the originals. It would have been easier on Larry had the landscapers not cut through all the lines (multiple times!) for the lighting when they were doing the clean up. Of course, this wasn't really their fault, as no one knew all these lights existed!! They had burned out and the excessive follage had covered them completely. The same thing had happened for the irregation as well, but that will be discussed at a different time. (Hehehe) It is so beautiful here now.