Abby's Park

...at least that's what she calls it.  We just had the kids' playset installed today.  It took a lot of work to get where we are today, since our back yard is not flat.  We hired a couple guys to grade the back corner for us two weekends ago.  It took them 4 hours with a little back hoe; I'm glad we didn't try to do it ourselves with shovels... Last week, Mike and I spent each night laying the landscape timbers around the cut and fill edges. We didn't think it would take so long, but in order to get the first row of timbers nice and level all the way around, we had to do a lot of digging to get them just right.  We then spent the entire day Saturday laying the landscape fabric, putting in the cedar chips, and finishing the landscape timbers.  It was a family affair on Saturday, as you'll see.  Today, it took 6 hours for two men to install the playset and it was then played on for the remainder of the evening.  I'm glad the kids (and their friends) like it!

Before the grading:

After the grading (and a few landscape timbers):

Landscape fabric (so we don't get weeds or muddy cedar chips):

Help from Josh, to lay 6 cubic yards of cedar chips:

Help from Ben (and Jessie and her friend also helped, but we didn't get their photo):

We had some fun, too...

Finally finished laying the landscape timbers at about 9 p.m. Saturday:

Yeah, 'Abby's Park' is complete!