Campbell Family: Concrete, Concrete, Concrete!!

I can't even begin to explain what a crazy experience we've had with our yard. Most of you probably remember the huge pile of concrete that we hauled out from our backyard when we moved in, and who can forget the bags of concrete that were left in the front yard. They got wet and set up. We ended up burying them in a retaining wall in our backyard just to get rid of them. You get very creative when you're in a pinch! It makes me very curious to know what all the concrete was originally intended for. Well, our most exciting concrete moment happened this year. We have this crazy rock wall in our front yard that we've been trying to love. It has just been sitting unfinished for four years, so this year we decided to work on it. The best solution we could come up with was to tear out the concrete edge that was intended for bricks, fill it in with dirt, and cover it with grass and bark. We actually got the job done pretty quickly, but the whole process was pretty messy. Our poor neighbors had to put up with concrete chunks scattered all around and the noise of our sledge hammers. Paul ended up taking 3,200 pounds of concrete to the dump. We were shocked, and didn't realize how much was actually there. I'm still learning to love the rock wall, but think it has a lot more curb appeal.