Backyard after a weekend of landscaping!

Last weekend family traveled in from out of town to meet up at my place. All told we had three generations wrapped up in grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and a nephew.

We gathered to spend time with each other and ended up celebrating some remarkable anniversaries…Aunt Jeanne & Uncle Dick (42), Mom & Dad (43) and Grandma & Grandpa (69). That’s a lot of years of living, loving and just plain surviving one another! 🙂

Speaking of surviving…my parents helped drag my yard back from the brink! Between Sunday morning and a late lunch on Wednesday we managed to…

• pull 42 bags of debris out of my backyard (dad was the tree destroyer and mom was the queen of the fern debridement!)

• move my hot tub off my patio and onto its platform (full circle moment for Jill & I who build the platform last year!)
• pressure wash the patio (thanks to an early present of a pressure washer from mom & dad)
• plant some new shrubs / plants

May not sound like a lot – but it was crazy. My yard is almost too perfect…and now, I’m ready for company! 🙂

Side yard after two huge shrubs were removed.

Brick patio after hours of pressure washing.

Ferns are finally breathing again after mom thinned them out!