Mike and Jeff's New House

Our installer was Lee Reveles Landscape, HIGHLY recommended, they did excellent work...

  Pavers in the driveway that leads to the alley

We installed a Weathermatic irrigation system controller.  It is connected to an on-site weather station that monitors temperature, rainfall, windspeed, and humidity. As the seasons change, it automatically adjusts the station timing, very handy! UPDATE:  We had nothing but trouble with this controller and in 2016 we replaced it with a dramatically better one from Rachio. See it here: https://www.rachio.com/ Better yet, the City of Sacramento has a rebate program to replace old controllers with `smart' controllers like the Rachio, check it out here: https://www.cityofsacramento.org/Utilities/Conservation/Rebates/River-Friendly-Landscape-Rebate  

We are building a fire-pit into the patio on the freeway side of the house.  The first step in the process was building a masonry bench on one side of it, the bench is done and the gas line is installed, next up is installing the burner and the patio pavers...

We have been staining fences for 5 weekends and have lured many friends into helping us...it takes a long time, but the results are worth it...

We are installing a fountain system that will use 3 linked aqua basins from Aquascapes.