We hired a friend to do backfill and grading around the house so we
could start doing the landscaping.
He spread the topsoil and placed the large boulders for us,
then graciously left the
Bobcat
for us to use while he worked on another job.
This greatly accelerated our landscaping progress and we managed to
accomplish much more than we had hoped to.
This raised our expectations:
now we hope to get the front of the house done before Winter so it
should look good next Spring.
What appear to be walkways are "stream beds" that drain run-off around
the house.
They are intended to have a Japanese rock garden appearance,
with randomly placed large stones in a bed of small stone.
There are many other things that are finished,
and a thousand small details to go.
The remaining big detail is cleaning....
