8.12.2013

The Front and Back Yards

The Front Yard:
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DONE!
- Remove plants from center of the yard
- Plant trees
- Paint front door
- Plant shrubs around perimeter of yard

To Do:
- Fix sprinkler system
- Make a pathway to the door
- Remove weird tree-bush by the garage
- Paint the trim and bricks (anything but baby blue and salmon)
- New outdoor light fixtures
- Fix doorbell
- Update house number
- Remove security door
- Possibly remove prison bars bars on windows or repaint them
- Plant flowers under the windows
- Grind concrete on doorstep

The Backyard:
Before
During

Notice the heaping pile of crap on the concrete slab... THAT was all buried in the backyard. Thank goodness we found no bodies.


This is after we had been slowly getting rid of it. Most of it was gone at this point. But still.

Currently


DONE!
- Wooden patio extension removed (done prior to moving in)
- Install new fence (done prior to moving in)
- Remove ELEVEN tree stumps (literally)
- Remove THREE non-working sprinkler systems
- Remove massive amounts of concrete. From under the ground. As in it was burried.
- Remove black plastic buried 8-12 inches under the soil throughout the entire backyard.
- Remove electrical outlet posts from the middle of the yard
- Remove copious amounts of garbage, tile (what did I tell you? The woman LOVED her some tile!!), and toys buried in the soil.
- Plant grass seed
- Plant vines along the perimeter of the fence
- Relocate the bougainvillea plant from a random place to a purposeful place
- Haul off concrete/ PVC pipe/ rubbish to the dump

To Do:
- New outdoor lighting
- Install sprinkler system
- Reseed the yard
- Build raised garden area in the back with a brick border
- Build a toolshed on concrete slab
- Paint the fence
- Install decorative border around vines
- Paint patio cover
- Pressure wash patio
- Figure out what to do with awkward side yard
- Plant flower garden under the window

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