Backyard Makeover Part I

When we purchased our house last summer, I knew we would eventually need to invest some money in the backyard landscaping.  Well, the heavy rains we received this winter have forced that project ahead a little.  Thanks to some great negotiating skills by Belinda, we are doing several things over the next week.  First piece of the project is to extend the stairs down the left side of our house into the yard.  What yard was there, has washed down the hill.  Very dangerous to walk on and it's erroding pretty bad around the retaining wall.  The workers got a bunch done today, and Belinda was able to also negotiate a "clean up" of all our shrubs and landscape beds in front of the house too.  They did a great job. 

After they get done with the stairs next to the house, we are having them install stairs down in the woods that will lead to a fishing platform.  Then, they will till up the back yard, and completely re-seed the whole thing.  It's going to look great!

Here's the pictures in progress and what the mess looked like just before they started.