Dave and Jan spent many hours during the summer of 2020, with their move to Utah, developing the landscaping of their property. And they waited for weeks for local vendors to come through on arrangements they had made for a unique piece of furniture as well as fencing and a sprinkler system and the installation of a sod lawn in the back yard. But all their waiting has paid off and they are settled in their house and pleased with the finished product.

The last piece of furniture to arrive was an interesting unit for their “mud room” – the laundry room which is entered from the garage where, during winter months, cold-weather garments can be removed and muddy shoes either removed or cleaned up. The furniture piece was constructed by a vendor in the mountains east of Cedar City, using logs and finished wood from the Quaking Aspen trees which are so common in the area.

Landscaping the back yard first involved working to level the slope by adding tons of fill dirt and top soil and garden soil.

Plans were made for a back lawn using a border of red edging bricks, but the fencing contractor started on his project before the lawn arrived.

The installation of the fence got underway shortly before Dave and Jan traveled to Arizona and California for visits with friends and family and Dave’s participation (on Zoom) in the annual meeting of the UIM board.

When Dave and Jan got back from their trip they were happy to find that  the fencing and the sprinkler system and back lawn had been completed.  So they were able to finish up most of the landscaping they wanted for this year with the addition of a border around the lawn for shrubs and flowers where the sprinkler system will do the watering, the addition of red rock to cover soil which will get muddy in wet weather, and the planting of a number of fruit and shade trees around the border of the back yard.

Since they finished the work they intended to have done until the spring season comes around, with more flowering plants to be added, the Lord has added a few changes of His own – which Dave and Jan find pretty cool!

Quite a bit has changed in Dave and Jan’s lives in the last six months, and they are thankful to the Lord on Thanksgiving Day of the unusual year which 2020 has been for the changes they are enjoying after their return to “high country” following the thirty five years which they spent in Arizona and Southern California.