2 minus!

The mud-pit could only exist for so long and it's days have finally come to an end! No more muddy paws! 

One of the happiest txt message photos I've ever received from M is this pile of freshly-delivered 2 minus rock

My girls are very helpful, we shoveled and moved around a half-ton of rock. 

Posing on their pile of rock

Progress

It's already been really nice to have the rock in there, we have less clean-up to do in the entry area. The rock isn't the nicest feeling for their little puppy feet but we're going to leave it until spring when we can get some D1 and then topsoil + grass or ground-cover on it. M is really smart and we dug a ditch from the back of the yard, around the hillside to the front on the yard for a drainage ditch to be lined with garden fabric, filled with 2 minus and stapled into a garden fabric and rock burrito.

FENCE!

I was an impatient girl while we waited for our handy-man friend to have time to build our fence so when the time finally came I was ecstatic! In all honesty we took the excavator to the yard June11, 2011 and the fence was finally built the first week of August so that really sucked! Naturally I would have loved to have a nice wood fence all around the property but with Juneau being so wet and the trees not being on my side of the property line we had to do chain-link in the interest of longevity, I will paint the chain link a darker green next summer to blend a little better. 

prepping the mud-pit for fencing

de-branching some of the trees

some fence

the front is wood with two big barn doors for ease of backing a skiff into the yard