So at some point this year I pretty much gave up on the yard. It has been too much. I started working full time at an office (I was working from home 3 days a week). And I just couldn’t keep up. I wanted to live in a garden home before we moved to this 0.4 acre yard.
Julie talked me down and we decided to go with a design firm. They created a really nice rejigger of the front yard. And some designs for the backyard we decided we don’t want to afford. But it did get us to distill what we really wanted, and come up with a list of tasks to finish.
So we have started a flurry of activity focused on getting the yard to be more maintenance free and hopefully get a nice outdoor area setup under our tree in time for new years.
First up was getting rid of one of our backyard paths. This thing was horrible. It was a combo of stepping stones and open spaces full of weeds that was pretty much unmaintainable. We needed to be able to maintain a drain so we made the path go from our shed to that drain. That’s it.
I feel like the fallen leaves make it look like it has been there forever. So the area where the path was will become a wildflower meadow. We don’t use it. We rarely look at it. Yet I spend a ton of time fretting over it and maintaining it.
Oh and that pile of wood on the left? That’s our old stage that I finally got around to removing. Another check off the list. And I got it done before someone fell through it and injured themselves. Based upon the rot of the boards I think it was only a matter of days before someone did fall through.
And to replace the stage. Well we’re working on that. But there’s a delivery in our driveway. Stay tuned…
