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Landscape Lighting and Front Landscaping

Finally finished the rock area in front of the house.  Shored it up with some large rocks, and filled the rest with river rock.
You can also see the grey electrical box.  I routed all of the landscape lighting wiring through the house.  It terminates in 2 locations with weather-proof boxes like that one.  I'll paint it later.  This gives me much cleaner wiring for the landscape lights, and allows me to put the WeMo timer and power supply in the HVAC room in the basement.  In this picture I still have the wiring visible above the rocks, but I'll cover it later.  Been meaning fix the landscape wiring for a while.  While I was at it I added some more path lighting and some uplights.

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