Yard Work

     Some days I just want to cuss out the previous owners... why not just do some up keep on your home? Then I remind myself that the reason we got a great deal on this place is because it was poorly taken care of and foreclosed on.
    Over the last 3 weekends since we moved in we have been going hard on the yard! Trimming hedges, raking leaves (a half acre of leaves is more than I imagined!), and just clearing out random junk. We came across some awesome stuff while raking  today. I found the remnants of an aquarium and Husband found a PlayStation and a kitty litter pan... still full of litter. Yum. We also decided that the palm trees had to go... because this is Tennessee, not Florida!

 

The other, probably way more important, thing we (and by that I mean Husband) took care of was the tree branches growing on the roof. Apparently our Homeowner's insurance was scheduled to cancel in December if we didn't get that taken care of... eek!

Are you happy now, Allstate?

 

We have also been working hard to tame our unruly bush in the driveway over the last couple of weekends. It was growing over the cement by about three feet. I don't even know what kind it is but the neighbor said it blooms in the spring. Hopefully we didn't hack away too much that that we miss out on the flowers in the spring, but it had to happen!

 

    I was really cursing the previous owners over the "F---ing secret garden", as Husband refers to it. There is a gorgeous tree (bush?) that is very entwined in the privacy fence. We hated to butcher it, but the fence is priority for us.

 

Here's how nicely it had wedged itself in the fence!

 

But with a little help from the saw...

 

We got it out of the fence...

 

It had pulled the nails out as it grew. Nature was winning against this fence, but we had the last laugh...

Success!

 

    There is still so much that needs to be done, hopefully we can get the all the yard work knocked out over the next few weekends before it gets too cold!