Backyard Shenanigans

Earlier this week on Tuesday, July 30th our neigbors irrigation backed up and flooded our back yard. Friday morning, August 2 we still had standing pools of water. What a mess!

This weekend was Grandma's Camp. Where all the grandkids get dropped off at Grandma's for Friday/Saturday with out their parents. Grandma and Grandpa have fun projects and activities planned to do with them while everyone is together. This year my Mom had asked if one of the activities could be swimming in our backyard pool instead of having to take everyone up to the city pool. We didn't mind however our backyard was still super muddy, the pump to the pool still wasn't hooked up and the pool was getting a little slimy on the bottom. 

So Friday morning instead of working inside the house while all the kids were gone Kory and I worked outside. He was able to bring some dry dirt from the front yard and layed it on top of our muddy mess.

Then he leveled in all nice and even. The dirt is still wet but at least we didn't have standing pools of water anymore. 

Our plan was to buy bricks and make a path from the porch to the pool. But being we had 2 piles of rock already on the side of the house we decided to spread it out instead to save money. Hopefully next year we'll put in a sprinkler system and plant some grass but for now the rocks should help with the dust and mud.  

While Kory was playing in the dirt I was hauling off the cardboard boxes and several broken peach tree brances. We have so many peaches this year the limbs are breaking. So frustrating.  We also hooked up the pump and threw in some clorine. In just a few hours the slime was gone. Amazing! Our back yard looks so good! On a side note our neighbor came over and talked to us about how and why our back yard got flooded. He appologized over and over for the mess it caused. After talking Kory took the skid steer over and helped clean out the side irrigation ditch that the run off water is suppose to go down but ended up being blocked so came into our back yard instead. Hopefully we never have to deal with that much water all at once again!   

We ordered our carpet this week. We are so excited! It will take 1-2 weeks to get here.