Here is an update of the property projects staring our wonderful chickens!  So we have the retaining wall all done with electricity and water put in (wow what a headache the water was).  The chicken coop is to the far right in the pic.  We have an arbor to the right.  On the other side of the arbor I am installing a greenhouse.  So its just got the foundation put in now. 

You can see black planters I put in last year.  They turned out spectacular.  I put some Japanese blood grass, creeping jenny, some dark red inpatients, and some dark almost black coleus.  They were really great looking and the grass and creeping jenny came back after the winter.

We found a great outdoor iron works kind of place outside of Spokane last year on our way to Yellowstone (stayed at the Lake Yellowstone Lodge which was great).  So we stopped on our way back and the went again in fall just before the snow hit.  We got some really good deals (cash talks).  I was able to get some iron short fencing to go around my vegetable garden as the chickens are loving my garden too much.  Will try to find a picture of that also.