Yard V: The Return

Hello all! Yes, I am aware that I have been missing for over a month.
The summer began with Jerod and I doing nothing but constantly working on the yard, culminating in building a privacy fence.We built this fence the weekend of June 11th and 12th and it was hard, hot and difficult. We ran into some trouble with a rock filled yard and tree roots but ultimately finished it and were extremely pleased with ourselves. Two days later Norman was hit with a large hail, wind and rain storm. We received golfball sized hail and sustained 70 mile per hour winds! Aside from it being a scary storm (the cats were going nuts) and having to get some damage to our house fixed (thank goodness for insurance) a large chunk of our new fence was blown down (sucked off is a more accurate description) most of our bedding plants were killed and the garden took a beating. This incident sort of killed my blogging spirit for a few weeks but I am back now with a few picture updates!
Here are a couple of pictures of the fence (isn't it pretty)! Our shed which I painted (check out how boring it was before! and what the garden is looking like.

Enjoy. . .

I will be back with more updates later in the week. Have a fun and relaxing weekend!

*If you need a refresher on were the yard started you can check it out here, here, here and here*