Landscaping Extravaganza Day 1

Today began our landscaping adventure. When we bought our house in April, no one had lived in it for close to 9 months. Therefore, the wooded lot looked more like a jungle of weeds than anything else. Well, we finally got around to cleaning things up today (a Herculean effort when you look at our jam-packed calendar). We made a lot of progress but still have a LONG way to go. Here are a few before and after pictures (please don't judge us!).

The front of the house BEFORE (lots of ugly, half dead evergreen shrubs and weeds)...

Front of house AFTER (goodbye weeds in front of chimney and deadest evergreen...I'm still working on convincing Don to just take them all out)...

I'm embarrassed to even post this picture. This is the side of our house BEFORE (have you ever seen so many weeds??)...

Side of house AFTER (ahhh, we can actually see out our bedroom window and as a bonus, we'll get to have a bonfire with all the wood we chopped down)...

See all the wood around the hot tub? Well, it's gone now...just dirt and grass seed. I still haven't figured out why someone would put pieces of wood around 3 sides of a hot tub but leave 3 feet of grass on each side. Hello, a riding mower does not fit!

Goodbye ugly 50 year old bird bath! Sorry birds...you'll have to wash up in someone else's yard!

Well, what a day (and that was only the beginning)! I can't feel my hands, arms or legs and Don's hand is swollen like a balloon from a bee sting, but we'll be up early tomorrow morning to keep on going! Check back tomorrow night for pictures from Day 2 of our Landscaping Extravaganza.

Too bad I didn't get to spend my day like Hoosier did...4 hours at the salon. Isn't he so handsome?