[ValiantJoy07]

Originally Posted by squiddles

Wow, nice work! And is your house as huge as it looks?


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probably not, it's a twin. a big twin- the half with the upstairs bedroom porch is the other half. We have 3 stories, 3 bay windows, 2.5 bathrooms, 4 moderate-to-big bedrooms and a finished basement, on a double lot. We share it with my Mom(she owns) and it fits our family if 6 perfectly with room to have people stay and not feel suffocated.

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Oh and to encourage myself I will post my progress in the front half of the yard.

We don't have any of the original ivy bed, it was kind of a hot mess'. Our Westie isn't a barker thankfully, but he would give off one call at one corner of the fence and then race in a circle around the bed of ivy and give one call at the other corner. You can see his path from google maps satellite. that was "barney's yard" and we've left it alone.

But every morning this week I've spent about 2 hours (while I let the kids muck in the sprinkler and dirt) weeding and it's been slow going and discouraging.

This is the before actually this was 2 months ago... the weeds and gras in the brick was evvenjn worse!



This was after 3 days of weeding.


And I spent a long time this morning digging up the evil ivy vines and trying to get the ground broken so I can rake it nicely and plant a bunch of wild flowers fir the rest of the summer. Next spring I'll dig it all out again, remove the likc tree and prepare for the pool.


Our front gate: I weeded out there too, that was completely green and grassy before ingot my hands on it.