Yard work

Adrian and I have been determined to get our yard into something resembling a nice place to be for years. When his dad first bought the house the back yard had weeds up to your waist. No exaggeration. So we've come a LOOOOOOOONG way. I don't have photos of the weeds, but then, we've all seen weeds. You can imagine how trashy that looked. Here's what things looked like before we planted grass seed about a year and a half ago...


And this just because it's cute...

Two weekends ago we spent an entire Saturday pulling up this Spring's weeds which had gotten way out of control already and re-cut the edge of the grass where our bark will start...

Then we also planted some clematis next to the shed.

And today we finally got the weed guard down and pinned. We're just waiting for bark now!


It was hard work for everybody...
These two are best friends.

Only one of my clematis has blooms and surprisingly it was the one that the dog tore into right after we planted it. I didn't think it would survive. Clearly it's doing well.