Talk About Tuesday Home Tour

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This week and and the first Tuesday of every month we are going to have Talk About Tuesday Home Tour. I want everyone to post photos of their home. Does that sound fun? It can be an organized closet or room, a beautiful corner or garden or anything else inside or outside your home that you want to share. Inspire us!

I was planning on finding something beautiful or organized to show from my home but then something major happened last week. We got a new road! It's the kind of road only a Mother living in a mud pit for two years could love. It's not beautiful (except to us) but it's progress. Progress is good!

This is what our driveway (and yard) looked like before.

Then last fall we got sidewalks and now we have a road! It's only a dirt road but a dirt road is better than a mud pit right? The bumpy thing we have been calling a road was not a fun ride when I was pregnant. That pile of dirt is going to be a flower bed some day.

The driveway is wide enough to park four cars across the end of it and however many deep.

There is also a place for two cars to park at the end of the front sidewalk. In the next photo you can see our road going out to the main road. It's not terribly long but it cost a bit of money to get this done. Paying for asphault wasn't even an option right now. Maybe after I make my first million from selling Organizing Bags. Ha!

Our new road is one more thing I get to check off of my Mom's Mission Impossible list.

If you've been here a while you know that we have no intention of planting any grass in our yard. We don't have the time or energy to waste on it. If we want to play on grass we can go to a park.

These are some photos I took at the Utah House. they have planted a low water landscape similar to what I want to do. If you are from lush Oregon you are going to think this is ugly but living in a desert like we do I think it is a beautiful and pratical option.

Best of all there is no grass to mow!

You can find the list of plants they used in the water-wise landscape on their site: theutahhouse.org.

What do you have to talk about this week?

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