Yard Remodling

So the running joke in my family is to go over to each others houses and point out some new project that could be done. I dont know why my parents still try but Kris has already thought of everything you could possibly do to this old house!

I have been trying since the snow melted to keep up on the weeds that attack our gardens. Its the rock hard clay we have for dirt and the fact that its all root bound. Sucks!!! Finally after weeks of diligence I had the front yard garden taken care of. So to the back I went. OMG! Our back yard "garden" we will try and call it. Since really it was a bug infested weed pit! I couldn't believe it! I swear over one weekend the weeds grew six inches. All of the sudden we had a forest of milkweed and grass. It was so bad you couldn't see Optimus when he walked the fence line.

After weeding half of it Kris and I gave up and started the biggest project we have done so far to the house. We rented a backhoe from Diamond Rental and tore up the back yard. Our real goal was to level it out since our yard slopes toward the house. Bad news is that is a lot of money in just retaining wall blocks not to mention top soil and new sod. So we half assed it. We only tore out the "weed pit" and where we are going to put our 12' X 20' deck.

Now our biggest battle will be finding the time to finish what we started.

Here is before the damage:

This is After: