Landscaping has begun!

Last Friday, the landscape crew installed our entire irrigation system while we were at work. We couldn't believe it was done and we missed it. So, today when the crew shows back up, I understand why. There are 8 of them!
From all the recent rains that we have had, we were able to see how the water will flow across our driveway and through the yard. Our awesome landscaper came up with the idea to put a "dry river bed" where all the water seems to collect and move across the yard. Sounded great! Then, he comes up with the idea to add a water feature at the beginning of it and it will always have running water. Lee about came out of his skin at this idea! So, today they got the whole yard prepped for sod, lined out the beds for plants and got our not-so-dry river bed flowing. It looks really cool and I love the way it sounds! Tomorrow they are going to start the planting. Half of the plants arrived today. Only problem is...we are expecting severe thunderstorms for the next 5 or 6 days! That means that they are not able to cut the sod at the farm and get it delivered, until things dry out again! UGH! They worked so hard getting the ground all smooth. (We had huge crevices where the last rain washed out our dirt, creating gullies!)



Digging the hole for the pump.
End of day 2 -
Our wee-little waterfall.