Mike and Jeff's New House

Today we started the process of getting our landscape started. Our tree guy (Bob from Busy B. Tree Service) came and took out the scraggly sycamore in front of the house. The city forester approved it for removal and they are going to replace it with a Dutch Elm Disease resistant cultivar named `Prospector'. Find out more about this program here: http://www.cityofsacramento.org/parksandrecreation/urbanforest/elm.htm It looks a LOT different:

Our tree guy also took out a redwood tree today....It will be replaced by a greenhouse, hopefully in this millenium...This view is from the back of the house on the second floor looking out over highway 50 and the alley.

The South side of our house has 5 `Dynamite Red' Crepe Myrtles that I planted last summer. They made it through the winter great and have really started to take off, they should be in full bloom within a month. Right now the entire south side landscape is covered with California Poppy...Our state flower does incredibly well here in the Central Valley...

The stucco and wall caps have been applied to the courtyard wall in front of our house....Now to get to the underground infrastructure (irrigation, 110, low voltage for lighting) so we can get some plants in the ground...

After several months of no blog posts, I thought I best put up some new pics....We spent the winter and spring not doing much work on the house...It was a VERY nice break, alas it is time to get back into gear and crank out the final big projects and the landscape... One of the things we finally had installed was the countertop in the bedroom..Stokes Granite and Stone installed them and they were GREAT to work with. Highly recommended.... Above is a pic of the built-in bedroom cabinet, the built-in headboard above our bed has the same granite counter top...