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First off, many thanks and kudos to Margie for organizing this process. She rocks (and other construction materials).<\/small><\/p>\n

Nearly since we’ve moved into the house, we’ve discussed doing some work in the front yard — in particular, putting a stairway up from the sidewalk, probably with some terracing of the slope. But various things have kept us from making any advances on it, aside from doing some flower bed expansion preliminary to it.<\/p>\n

Now it looks like we’re going to be able to do it, with both a couple of nice bonuses and a smaller-than-expected sewer line replacement cost giving us some resources to spend.<\/p>\n

We got the first estimate<\/a> yesterday, and it looks like the prices will be lower than I expected for a bit better materials than I was expecting — flagstone, replacing the “patio” on top, some retaining walls for the terracing and along the sidewalk, etc. Very cool and exciting.<\/p>\n

More as developments develop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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