Memorial Day

The workmen left on Wednesday, just in time to get everything cleaned up for our Memorial Day picnic. It was a good time to finally take some "after pictures."

Here's "before."

And here's "after."

In a few months, we'll stained the wood, dark brown for the floor and railing top, and white for the railings.

I'm quite smitten with the new flagstone walkway/patio.

The curved walkway leads to a pad for the recycling and trash cans.

The new pond is going to go to the right of the curved walkway, where all this ivy is now. The pond man comes tomorrow and I can't wait to see what he says!

While Ben and I prepared for the picnic by cleaning up and shopping, Paul had his own work to do -- filling the many water balloons that the kids would eventually play with. Every now and again he'd take a break to have some fun.