Guess who's back....back again

July 6-7, 2013

After months of not working on the house, we are finally back at work (or at least we were for a weekend...and then it took me another 1.5 weeks to get around to posting the blog).

Our back yard has been a bit of a jungle as evidenced by the pictures below (I have been writing psychological reports all night, hence my wording choices).  We finally decided to recruit some willing friends that we could convince to help and get at it!  Here is the yard before/after (and before is after Alok did some work):

Our big helper (did I mention how we haven't worked on the house since he was born!? There's a reason for that!)

Northwest side of the house... ummm... after looks the same (we didn't get it all done!)

Looking south on the east side of the house before

After:



 We actually uncovered all of the stone here and even found an old carrot in the ground. This is a 3 leveled area and must have been an old garden.

East side looking north before:

After:




East side before

East Side after:

 
Front before:

Front after:

 

 

East side before:

Working on the east side:

pulling ivy off trees

WAIT?! We have neighbors ;-)



The east side after:

Koi pond area Before:

 


Clearing out the koi pond area:

Koi pond area after:
 
BTW, we are not keeping the pond.  As much as I love drowning hazards/dog pools in the middle of the yard
 

A 2.5 story weed:

TIMBER!!!!
 

Lots of weeds

Alok also got the chance to use his truck, which he convinced me that we needed to get for the sole purpose of taking brush from the yard to the .... well, wherever it goes!

North side of the house before:



The process:
 

North side after:

Garage area before:

Garage after:

Our curb after :-)

That's all for now.  Hopefully there won't be another 5 months before we do any work on the house :-)

Jessica