This is what our backyard currently looks like:
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Obviously, our yard ends where hubby is standing. These are pics from late summer '08 - our lawn is now as nice and green and lovely as our neighbors' lawn.
This winter, the patio shifted and messed with our deck. SO, the patio needs to be busted up and re-done to prevent that crap from happening again. Either with more cement or some other medium. We would like to turn the underside of our deck into a nice little screen porch. Complete with a tin roof, a couple of doors to the outside world, and maybe even a hammock or two. I'm envisioning it as a great place to leave the cats and be comfortable with them out there by themselves. A place to read a good book on a lazy Sunday or have a nice glass of wine with friends and keep out the bugs.
And that's just one of the things that we need to do around Casa del Peavey outside.
Oh, here is a Legos rendering of the ideal backyard.
You'll note that The Backyard is a happy place - one where pirates can get along with knights and spacement. It's practically Utopia. This is seriously is a lot like what we want The Backyard to look like: an expanse of green on the right, a big 'ol patio with a fire pit and built-in chairs on the left, connected to a deck that extends a bit out over the pond in the back. Trees, flowers, and a lovely fence to keep the furry kids inside... I'm planning on getting started on this puppy started in the next couple of weekends. Out comes the weed garden right outside the back door. Out come all the rocks around the house - to later be replaced in roughly the same places... :) The Backyard is something that I have a huge passion about because I just want to have a lovely backyard. We've got a few years in the current Casa del Peavey though, so we've got a couple of summers to get this baby up to par.
Dork.
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