Home Improvements

Rob and I bought this house a couple of years ago. It is a bit of a fixer-upper. It is over thirty years old which, believe it or not ,is quite old here. We started looking at houses that had at least an acre of land and when we walked into this back yard we fell in love with the place because of the huge cottonwood trees. You don't even feel like you are in the desert back there. So you could say we bought a yard that happened to come with a house for us to live in. We have been working on improving the house and yard pretty constantly since we bought it. The house will probably never be done. In someways it feels like having a big expensive doll house. I have come to love the smell of home improvements; paint , drywall, stain, new carpet, saw dust, etc.

This is our latest project, a new patio in the back yard. My brother, Taylor's guys did the work and they are really good. We love it!! They tore out our old patio that made all water run to our back door right where the dog sits. They poured a new patio and made it continue around the pool. We also put concrete where Rob parks so he doesn't have to park in the dirt any more. They are going to stain it next week unless we get a lot of rain.

While they were pouring the concrete it was raining off and on. Then it continued to rain for four days after that. Our patio stayed dry the entire time. So thanks Taylor, our dog thanks you too.