isn't it pretty? slightly overwhelming at first glance, i know, but let me see if i can give you a little walk-through.along the very back is our lovely new retaining wall, and directly in front of that you can see some sort of ghosted circles - those are our russian olives. for existing plants, he drew an "x" in the middle, for stuff he wants us to add, there's a "+" in the middle of the plant. fluffy (deciduous?) trees are circles, evergreens are more star-shaped, and the bigger the circle, the bigger the tree - the circle represents the diameter of the mature tree canopy at the fullest point.
what else ... the covered patio and shed on the side are already there, and the sidewalk from the patio to the front of the house is not - it runs through what is currently a very weedy rock bed. seriously, there have got to be 100+ giant thistles in there. (we're working on that.) the front yard shape is pretty much the same as what we currently have, and the back yard is similar, but curvier. the front stoop isn't nearly that cool right now - he wants us to remove the iron railing along the front of it, move it up flush with the front line of the house, and add steps down the front with a little pavestone pad to make the front more accessible. pretty m
uch any plant that is labeled is something he wants us to add, and i think most of the lines showed up where he pointed from the name to where the plant goes. (let me know if you have any other questions.)
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Hey Marisa! While Lesley has read your blog for a long time and share things once in a while, I am just now entering the blogosphere since I will try to update ours once in a while and want to somehow keep up with some folks here while we're in Kenya.
So, in reading through here (thank goodness you just switched over and it is short :-D) I love the landscaping image! I did a tiny bit of that (with more focus on the house than the landscaping) in an architecture portion of a CAD class in high school, so reading your entry brought back fun memories.
Otherwise, that dish you made recently sounds delicious! ...and good luck on the car search; though it seems slightly odd that you've shared your spreadsheet and now going for what looks to be the lowest scoring, but that just goes to show that cars, like homes, are a very emotional purchase as Dave Ramsey says!
thanks, chris!!
yeah, i was really afraid that i was eliminating the forester with my spreadsheet, but the more i looked at it, the more i figured i could handle the slightly higher cost of gas and get all of the extra benefits of the forester over the matrix or impreza - more storage space, more people space, higher undercarriage for driving up in the mountains, etc. it is such an emotional decision ... scott and i decided last night that we could go look at cars tonight and i've been bouncing in my seat all day!
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