I thought I would take a brief pause from the parade of party posts to show you something completely unreleated. I’ve mentioned before that our backyard is/was a total fixer upper. I’ve shown you what I’ve been doing on the right side of the yard, but so far I’ve ignored showing you the left side. […]

Over the weekend, we planted some purple fountain grasses in our giant patch of bare dirt. I originally bought them with the intention of putting them along the back fence, but had a re-examination of my priorities. Obviously, my mud patch needed more attention. So we planted them along the chain link instead. They look […]

Over the weekend, after we plotted how to tackle our crumbling front porch, my dad agreed to remove our old wire fence at the back of our lot. In November, our back neighbors ripped out some dead trees/bushes and replaced them with this ugly yellowish screening fence. Obviously, the wire fence was kind of useless […]

Last fall, I was pretty clueless about what I should do with our backyard. We’ve slowly been clearing out years of neglect and I think we’re finally ready to start building things back up again. I still am a little unsure of the details, but I’ve become more comfortable with the thought of tackling such […]

When we bought our house, it was far from what I would call a “fixer upper,” not that it didn’t have its opportunities for improvement. The backyard, however, total fixer upper. Our backyard is what some might call a “disaster.” That’s the technical term for it. Here is a photo from before we moved in, […]