Weekend wind down??? Yeah right!! Tell that to the 6 tons of flagstone that the semi-truck dropped off on Friday morning! Phase 1 of our landscape remodeling project was in full effect. For a long time now we’ve wanted to line our gardens with flagstone pavers and fill the beds with slate rock. It took about 8 hours to move it all and get it in place, but in the end it looks great. Fortunately it was exactly the right amount of stone we needed. Unfortunately, my back and hamstrings are killing me! Here are some more pics:
If anyone would like to follow me on Twitter, I have finally started an account. Thanks to Jeremy over at Modest Money for some much needed encouragement. I will warn everyone that I have never used Twitter before, so if I don’t do something right or do something silly, bare with me – I’m learning!
Happy Easter to everyone tomorrow!
Carnivals and Mentions:
MyMoneyDesign was featured in the following personal finance carnivals this week:
- The Carnival of Financial Camaraderie #27 – Step Away From the Mall
- Financial Simplicity Carnival- The April Fool’s Edition – See Debt Run
- Carnival Of Money Pros – Final Ride Edition – Financially Consumed
- Carnival of Retirement – April 2, 2012 – Tackling Our Debt
- Totally Money Carnival – Millionaire Teacher Edition – Thirty Six Months
- Top Personal Finance Posts Of The Week – Mega Millions Edition – Personal Finance Whiz
In addition, my articles were also mentioned in the following other blogs:
- Chase A Dream Weekly roundup #3
- Weekend Reading: the New Ipad Giveaway Edition, with over $1200 in Prizes to Be Won! – Invest It Wisely
- Awesome Blog Posts This Week – Short Road to Retirement
Thanks to everyone for sharing my posts!
Stats:
Here are my stats for the week:
• Alexa Ranking: 140,915 (as of 4/06/12).
• Google PageRank: 1 / 10
• SEOmoz MozRANK: 1.97 / 10
My Technorati Finance Rank (35) and Money Crashers Rank (265) have also seen some improvement this week. I’m really hoping that during the next PR update that I have enough backlinks to increase to a “2”.
Ultimately, I’m really thankful for all my new and returning visitors! I really appreciate your support!
Posts This Week:
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I don’t know why but I am very happy to see your success.
Thanks! Do you really need a reason to be happy for someone else?
Your lawn is quite green already, and it looks like you live on an acreage?
I love flagstone pavers! Landscaping is very hard work and can be quite expensive. But I always love the end result when everything looks so nice.
Thanks! We do love the look of them and have put this off for the last 8 years. But we finally decided to splurge this year. We live on a third of an acre in a recently built subdivision that use to be a farm. It has a nice country charm even though we are extremely close to the city. I didn’t realize it, but my grass does look good in that picture even though the rest of the yard looks very yellow and sad. I’ve got my bag of fertilizer ready to go, but was waiting for a weather forecast of solid rain!
Thanks for the mention MMD. Good to see that you’re on twitter now. There is a learning curve there, but pretty much everyone else is going through the same learning process. Now the next step is customizing your profile page.
The landscape work looks great. Geez that’s a lot of flagstone though. I feel your pain for all the work that must’ve gone into hauling those across the yard and putting them all in place.
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Thanks! When the stones got dropped off, my first reaction was “what did I just do to myself”. Two days later I’m still hurting!
I guess on the bright side, the hurting must mean you got some really good exercise.
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I don’t have a yard because I live in an apartment but if I did, it would not look as good as yours. Nice stats. I find it’s hard to get that PageRank up, I’m still at 0 lol.
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Awh, thanks! That yard took 8 years to create, so you’ve got plenty of time!
Thanks on the stats! There was plenty of advice out there on the web for the Alexa ranking, but the PageRank advice seems to be less consistent. Plus when it only gets updated every 3 months or so, it’s hard to experiment and know if what you’re doing is really making a difference. Unfortunately though, just like Alexa, it is number that advertisers look at. So I have to figure something out!
Looks like a ton of work, but well worth it!
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Thanks! It was and I’m glad it’s done. But next week we’ve got 7 yards of slate rock coming! Ahhh! More work!
Wow your garden looks great now! Good job! Hope your back feel better.
Thanks! We’ve got a lot more work to, so I better recuperate quickly!
That must have been a fun weekend.
For me, a good break away to get outdoors is nice, but if only the weather would cooperate… 
Thanks for the inclusion!
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Thanks! I get to look forward to it again next week. Only the weather may have other plans for me!
I’m just getting down rennovating one of my apartment buildings…and I love how it came out. Maybe I will write a post and show some before and after pics
Great work on your stats!
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Oops…I meant I’m just getting “done” not “down.” I really need to spell check before I hit “Post Comment.”
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No problem. I’ve made so many mistakes on so many comments.
Everyone loves some good before and after shots. I say go for it! And thanks on the stats!
Your Lawn looks like a little park. It would be a great place to have a breakfast. Walking barefoot on grass. watching sunrise and sunset , then having a dinner
Thank you very much! A lot of work went into it over the past 8 years!
Thank you for the compliment! Where is it that you live? We actually wish our backyard was just a little bigger. Where we live is considered a “small lot”.