#19 - check!

A few months ago, we started a little yard work.

At our old house, we spent more money than I'd like to admit trying to get our front yard looking great! We bought stones, bushes, flowers and pavers to line the side of the sidewalk leading to our house. After it was done it looked nice, but not exactly as wonderful as I'd hoped.

It didn't take us too long into the summer to realize that we are NOT the type of people who like to maintain their yard. Getting Ryan to cut the grass is difficult enough... without adding in pulling weeds and trimming bushes.

When we bought our current house, I knew that the bushes and flowers all over the yard were going to be ripped out for fear of over growth. However, there's on little "island" style flower bed int he middle of the yard that I didn't mind. I didn't picture large beautiful flowers in there, but I liked the tree/rock/bush-thing combo that was currently there. So, when Ryan started pulling out bushes, I decided to work on my flower bed.

It took me less than a day to weed it, and re-mulch it to get it ready for the summer. I vowed that I would not just let it go and turn into a big mess like our previus attempts at landscaping.

Throughout the summer (usually if Jude was asleep in the back seat) I would stop at the top of my driveway and pull what weeds were popping up to keep it looking special.

Now that fall's here, I'm eager for the cool weather to set in and stop the growth... but I do plan to keep weeding as needed. Currently our old man next door is selling his house, so we told him we'd do our best at finishing making our front yard looking nice so that he can get out quickly.

Also, since I have one season of maintaining under my belt, I hope that next year I'll be able to rip up all of the bushes in our side flower bed area for my own little garden! yea!