We wanted to help out a friend in need, who was working hard at putting up a yard for his family, Josh and I talked about it and decided to help. So we took out the south side of our grass and gave the sod to our friend to have a grassy front yard. And the summer project began, cementing the area where the grass came from. We decided to do most of the stuff ourselves to keep the cost down. We had to dig down about 6 inches, put gravel on and compact it, pour the cement and do the finish work. Sounds easy enough doesn't it--Not really. We spent atleast 2 months shoveling, and wheel barrowing the dirt out. Josh even got fluid in his knee, and had to go get steroid shots. We graded it and come to find out that we dug out too much. So we had to buy twice as much gravel to fill in the 2 inches +. We decided to cement a pad behind the shed so we can put Sarge's Kennel on it. Corban made for a great weight to level the gravel. Peyton kept himself dirty pretty easily. And I tried to do as much as I could.
We first did the first half and the kennel pad. This is Josh and our very handsome and kind neighbor helping us cut the cement to avoid cracks. Apparently it was too loud for Corban.
The second half was put in a few weeks afterwards. We would like to thank our neighbor across the street, and next door, our friends a block over who provided us amateurs with their expertice and helping hands. Without them we will still be working on this.
Now we have a wider driveway, less grass to mow or water. Boyz love it, play basket ball, ride trikes etc.
