Would you ever trench out your back lawn as a gift to your husband? No?? Well that is exactly what I did for Chad a few months ago at the beginning of December. When we first moved into our house it was an old horse ranch full of a ton of dirt.  A friend that initially came over to visit even made a joke saying it seemed like they stepped into the movie Interstellar during the dust bowl!  Needless to say we had our work cut out for us. Slowly over about 5 years we started manicuring lawns, adding road base, making decomposed granite pathways and really bringing our backyard…