The Great Back Garden Makeover

After a couple of years trying to get nutsedge weed out of my lawn, I gave up and agreed with Chris’ plan to rip up the turf and start over. Of course, we initiated this project right before the month of storms that hit central Texas so this ‘miniproject’ became a long, drawn out process.

Once the old grass was removed, it seems as though we had to relevel the slope every time it rained: 

And the granite that we put behind the pool got washed away a couple of times: 

It was hard to live with a building site in the back garden: 

but there's nothing like a power tool to let out some frustration: 

once we had a weekend of sun arrived, the new sod was placed in an afternoon:

Followed by the important step of admiring our work with a glass of wine: