yard work

Last Saturday, Matt and I (with some help from the kids) did some yard work. We're still slowly marching toward getting the yard in shape. There is still a TON to do. Now that it's starting to cool off just a little, we can get back outside some. Anyway, here are some before and after pictures of most of our work. In this before picture, you can see that we had sunflowers that were drying up in the front. Behind that is a dead azalea covered in bunches of weedy vines. Behind that was a privet bush that was getting bigger and bigger. It was all junk that needed to be removed. Also, you can't really see it in the picture, but there was a tree growing up in the middle of the dogwoods and azaleas that Matt cut down. Thanks for all the help, Matt! Now, we just have to figure out what to do with that space. As you can see, there is a bunch of monkey grass there. We may move it somewhere else in the yard...or we can incorporate that space into a flower bed of some sort. We'll see. If anybody has suggestions, feel free to leave them!