Yard TLC

Caring for a yard, especially in a humid climate, is a new experience for us.  In Colorado you water and water and water your grass, hope it grows some, and mow it occasionally.  That's all our experience (because I never paid attention to everything else my Dad always did).  You don't water here, and everything grows well.  The trick is making everything grow the right way and keeping the weeds back!

Anyway, we have a lot of bushes in our yard and they were getting out of control.  They were bugging both of us in a big way.  So we finally bought a hedge trimmer and went to work.  That was our yard purchase for the year.  The pictures don't show very well just how crazy the bushes were, but we really trimmed a lot.  Jim worked the trimmer and mowed, while the kids and I raked remaining leaves, and took care of the cut branches.  There were a lot!

Before 

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After

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After  (Some on this row were cut back 3 feet!)

Aah!  We really had a nice day working in the yard and definitely improved it some.  Bit by bit we're going to get this!