Yards of Yardwork

We have really cleaned up our yard, thanks to a lot of sweat labor. Again, I wish there were more "befores", but I often forget because I'm too exhausted on these project weekends.

When we bought the house, I didn't even really pay attention to the fact that the yard was overgrown with weeds and stray trees. Last summer, we just couldn't care about the yard of course. We had to bust our butts on the inside to make it liveable before the Fall. Finally, this year we get to take pride in our very own big yard!

Here are some photos of the lawn after the weeding, and thatching. We took down the large tree beside the garage. It's down to the stump now and we're going to have professionals grind it up when we have the trees trimmed back from over the garage. (up next on the list of yardwork) I'm so proud of Liam taking that tree down. Can you believe, he did it himself?

I'll have additional photos soon. We still need a wheedwhacker to clean things up. We'll be doing some more landscaping, mulching along the fence in the back, and river-rocking beside the air conditioner and garage.

Since these photos have been taken, again we've taken the tree down to the stump, and stipped a broken fence down to the posts. More photos soon!

The front lawn has been treated with fertilizer, and looks much better already.
The backyard is still a jungle as far as the weeds that pop up after we mow. We'll be fertilizing the back as soon as I can figure out how without one of those green push carts? because of course we're lacking in that as well. (I'm going to try the free-cycle or craiglist for weedwhackers and fertilizer carts!)

This yard is going to be in top shape by the time fall rolls around this year!

We're planning a BBQ perhaps for August!