Here are some snaps of our home in Bloomfield New Mexico where we have lived since 1990. We moved here because the company I was working for in JAL New Mexico downsized and transferred us here.

Except for the garage, it was an empty 1/2 acre lot when we moved here.    We had a double wide set on a foundation to qualify for FHA for when and if we decide to sell it.  Everything that you see except for the garage and double wide we built.

Front porch that was added about the third year.

This started to be a back deck
the top step height but eventually it became an added room.

This is a shot from the back patio toward the garage and the fiver.

This is a shot of the patio showing the barbecue pit in the lower left-hand corner of the pic.

These are planters I made  Mary Ann for her herb garden.  I cast them pouring concrete in a mold that I made out of  3/4" plywood using 32 inch diameter pillar casting cardboard for the inside and the outside made of  plywood, bolted together.  Concrete covered with a tile façade.

This shot is looking north at the patio and arbor it also
lets you see the size of the Wisteria vine (just one)

Shot from the southwest corner of the patio

Another westerly shot.

This shot is looking west, when I poured the patio I poured it
in 4 foot squares so I could pour one at a time as the notion struck me.

These are square-foot garden planters I built so when
Mary Ann and I get old we don't have to worry about getting down on our knees to work the garden.  I made
two forms which I reuse each time I add one.  With the
six we have we can feed the whole block with veggies.

The Wisteria in bloom two years ago now the coverage is so thick that without the leaves you can
just barely see the sky .  Picture taken 2004.
(Very Messy but very beautiful)