As much as we like to DIY around our house, it doesn't always turn out the best. At least not at first go. We have put playsets together wrong, drilled holes in doors on the wrong side so that we couldn't hang them, cut down trees that fell the wrong way and almost crushed their cars........... (I won't tell you WHO caused this things - that is irrelevant)
Here are pictures of the house in June.
So when we decided to tackle the yard, we should have known there would be issues. And there were. So far it has been wild life. Bees, bunnies.....and then mice, skunk, racoon.
The skunk is kind of a funny story. We bought something to spray over the ground bees/hornets hole. It has to be sprayed in the dark. So - my dad got up early, before dawn, and went out to spray (the night before it was raining. Yes, he is dedicated to not getting stung again). He was outside about 1 minute when he came back in and announced that he couldn't spray because there was a skunk digging in the bee hole.
Fab.u.lous.
We had to wait for him to finish before we could spray. We were a little more worried about being sprayed by the skunk that spraying the bee hole at this time.
Yesterday and today we spent a lot of time in the yard. We removed all the bushes in the front of the house and it looks so much better. We are going to fill it with flowering plants.
The front yard - which is full of tons and tons of plants, is now being moved. We moved 25 blanket flowers/autumn suns today and they found a new home. (thanks to Maria for the suggestion on placement - they look awesome).
We got a lot done the last two days. Stumps were removed, weeding done, and we checked on the baby bunnies and they are still doing fine.
Tomorrow we will be trapped inside while we wait out the wind and rain from the lovely Irene. Then Monday - it is back to work.
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