Bye bye backyard concrete
Before Outside our back door, we have a lot of cracked up concrete. Some of it’s part of a sidewalk, but then there are parts that are totally function-less. They aren’t flat. (They weren’t poured flat.) It’s just weird, broken, useless concrete. That’s an old photo above; the fence is long gone and the garage door has also […]
Glass, glass and more glass: More backyard finds
I mentioned before that I’ve found shards of glass in our backyard. Every time I dig a hole to plant something, I unearth some. And every time it rains, I can expect to find a few new pieces exposed on the surface of the dirt. I actually challenge myself to find at least two or three […]
Homemade backyard sculpture: Painted posts
When we removed the old wire fence at the back of our lot, most all of the fence posts were simply falling out of the ground. But the last one wouldn’t budge at all, so it was easiest just to leave it standing. Sure, we could have probably chopped it down at the base, rather […]
Plastic owl to the rescue! (Maybe.)
I hate squirrels. The animal lover in me never thought I would say this, but they are a horrible nuisance and I hate them. They dig holes in my yard and my flower pots, eat their lunch on my porch and leave all the nut shells laying there, and one time, one even pooped on my brother […]