Drought Proof Backyard

Well, California is in one of it's worst droughts in history. Last year, we stopped watering our fairly new sod. Wahhh! I had done that when the hubs was off to Iraq, so that was under 4 years ago! But people are living without water, so we had to do our part and sacrifice! So, we have been living with dirt and weed patches for the past year and something had to be done! The hubs decided to drought proof our old lawn with pea gravel. Eventually we can put walking pavers and maybe even a picnic bench, or better yet, an above ground pool!

We had all the pea gravel and mulch delivered to the front of our house.

My pretty posing princess and Tim being Tim!

They worked hard digging up all the remaining grass patches before laying down the weed barrier.

Was Violet really working?? She's not one to do manual labor!

Our poor sod!

Watch those toes Ashton!!

Dad getting the job done!

Are all kids like this?? I turn my back and Tim is scaling the wall!!

After a week of hard work, the pea gravel and mulch transforms the area.

I started our garden that weekend. This was about a month ago. I should take a picture of how much has grown!

I love fresh mulch!

I told you she loves to pose!