Landscaping Piggy

One of our small landscaping projects last weekend was fixing an ugly area that had become weed-filled (the weeds here are terribly rampant, much more worse than in W. WA). It is a little area in the corner of our front yard next to our driveway that has the mailbox post in it. So Mary cleaned up the weeds and took out the old bark and had laid down some weed-barrier stuff and we wanted to put some rock in there. Jenny had picked some decorative rock up from a garage sale while she was here for free but there wasn't very much of it. I suggested that we take out some of the random landscapring rocks that we had in the backyard and combine them to go there and it worked great. Mary later had the idea to paint a little pig on one of the rocks so we did that on Sunday afternoon. The kids enjoyed "helping". Here are the results:

Sarah getting ready to help out Mary.

Nathan trying to get into the act with Sarah looking on and Mary doing the actual work.

Here's the finished product, it looks pretty cute... hopefully it doesn't wash-off with rain.