Lovely

This is my next door neighbors yard with little purple flowers all over it. They even mowed and I was so happy to see the flowers were still there. It looks like a lavender field. The trees belong to my neighbor's neighbors driveway. They are so beautiful. Spring has sprung.

Bobcat

Last weekend we rented a bobcat to clear away the big dirt piles near the house. Although Adam was on it for a little while that morning, a friend came over later and took care of the rest for us. We are so grateful to our friend Joe who took the time to do that for us. He is in the concrete biz and has to level many a ground so he was fast and efficient. If you are in the area and need a good concrete guy, we have just the guy for you!Greta watching her daddy on the "digger".

As you face the house, this is the right of the house where one large dirt pile stood.

This is on the left side of the house where another once stood. All gone now!

One other transformation was ripping up the planter in the backyard. You can see in previous posts a big planter with overgrown shrubs and bushes. Now we have room to run and play and build a playground instead. All of the dirt was just put at the back of the property to use when we need it.

Yard Work

Even if we don't live in the house, we still have to take care of the yard. In fact, a zero-turn lawn mower was our first purchase. Adam cut down some dead tree branches and did some "pruning" which basically consisted of trimming down anything too tall or too wide. Adam thinks we need a professional arborist's opinion, but this will do for now.

It was my job to zip around on the mower, which reminded me of 4-wheeling and I loved it. I was pretty proud of myself that I did it in less than an hour. I just plugged in the Ipod and listened to Regina Spektor sing about buying a silver trailer and having a baby boy. :) Still haven't met our neighbors yet, but I got a nice hearty wave from our neighbor mowing his lawn too. I love the country.

And then there were three...

When we first went under contract with this house, we thought there was 1.88 acres of land according the MLS statement. The first thing Adam did was to get it surveyed to see exactly what part of the property was ours. It looked so big, we weren't sure exactly where the lay of the land was. Imagine our surprise (and the owner's!) when the survey came up as 3.33 acres and it was all ours for the same price! According to the seller's realtor, she had encouraged him over and over to get it surveyed, but old paperwork had said 1.88, so that's what he went with. We were so giddy and grateful for this land even though we don't have a clue what to do with it! My vote is for a Christmas tree farm... :) I'm not kidding either!

This is behind the house looking towards the neighbors house on the right.

Everything is ours all the way back to that tree line far away! Praise God! Now, we need to rent a bush hog and cut down that grass.

I've had a couple friends ask if this will be Greta's playhouse. How can you say no to a face like this?

We discovered that one of the trees in the backyard has green apples all over it. Time will tell I guess what kind they are and how big they'll get...

We found this old rusty hardware mounted in the tree. Made me wonder if maybe it was a horse-hitching post??


The grape arbor is starting to get little green buds on it! I've heard that the harvest time for grapes is spring...so hopefully they'll last the winter.

There are day lillies all around the yard. And ant mounds.


This is the side of the yard. Everything in the picture all the way to the tree line on the left is included!

We have a generous sized front yard also. The only downside about our house is that it is on a somewhat busy 2 lane road with no fence. I would like to put up a pretty split-rail fence to just give a little definition for the kids between our yard and the road. But that'll be later I'm sure...