So posting to the blog has never been my specialty, but this latest hiatus is ridiculous. Sorry to all my readers (mom and dad) for keeping you hanging. However, given the fact that i talk to you guys every week, you should be well aware of what is going on in my life.
Today, i thought i would give you an update on all our yardwork. Exciting huh? Although i could show the progress on the upstairs, after 7 months it looks much the same as it did the last time i posted. Makes me wonder where all the money we have spent has gone.
The first picture is what our yard looked like a few years before we bought our house (Funny story on how i got the picture...i downloaded this picture from a "for sale" listing of our house in April. Apparently a previous realtor had re-listed the house for sale mistakenly for a few days. No one asked to buy it in that short period of time.)
As you will notice, Meg and I have done quite a bit of damage. We first removed all the concrete that covered about 60% of the yard. We had a bit of help on this part of the backyard landscaping. When we did our 2009 scavenger hunt we listed "remove concrete slab in our backyard" as one of our clues and put a ridiculous amount of points next to it. One team actually removed a section of it for us! (they only got partial points because they only removed a part of the slab.) Then in early winter we started our campaign of deforestation...starting with the little charlie brown pine tree that soon became our xmas tree.
Once the first tree fell, the flood gates opened and we moved/cut down all the trees in the backyard in preparation for our garden boxes.
The gardens are mostly planted...now all we need is some grass. We are also working on a pergola in the back corner. We hope to make some good progress on that this weekend.
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