The House-Before and After

Before-The side profiles are the best view of what was there

These things were big-all you could see were trunks from the front. Not pretty

Since we took all the trees the birds were without a lot of options-here is a picture of the wreath on our door that birds had begun to build a nest behind

These after shot are not the best-sorry. And things are much prettier now that they are blooming, but you get the general idea. We went with baby shrubs (as they were much cheaper and it 2-4 years they will mature)


The grass is beginning to green and take root. There is also a bed on the right side that runs up all the way to the street but I was too lazy to edit out our street sign in order to post it-sorry!

So since we moved in last July we had a total of 15 trees taken out of the front yard and 2 in the back. There are still 8 trees in the back as you can see, but at least we have some room in front now. My favorite part of the story is that we had a sprinkler system put in with the yard. We were going to have a plumber tie it into the main line and give us another gauge (so we could get a credit back from the county for the non-sewer use). He came the day AFTER the sod was laid only to tell us we had a galvanized steel pipe and it was on its last legs. So we had to have them peal back the sod, dig up the pipe and lay copper. Just an extra $1,000, but I guess its better than the $6-8K that it might have cost if it had busted. We also got a new hot water heater at that time as well. I had not taken a hot shower in 7 months. There was about 3-4 minutes of decent hot water then it would just continue to get more lukewarm. I know that its a luxury, and that the majority of the world does not have hot water, but it was SO NICE to take a truly hot shower again. Its been over a month and I am still thankful every time I get in my shower.

I Know, Its Forever Late-Easter

About to hunt

M with some of her favorite cousins


The loot hidden in the jungle-I mean the backyard


We had ever intention of making sunrise service at 7am, but it didn't happen- made it to breakfast though




Goodbye lover; until next year (I'm obsessed with these at Easter. Pink bunnies taste the best-I am a connoisseur of these over the last 30 years so you could try arguing, but it would be an exercise in futility.)

Sorry for the lateness of this. Just had to get it out there for posterity. And whose excited that I finally figured out why I couldn't write under the pictures any longer? ME! I'm an idiot, I was in "edit HTML" view instead of "Compose" view.