We're giving our UGLY backyard a makeover!!

[.sarah]

What I did today: My mom and I went to Home Depot and bought $250 worth of stuff.

I put up a cute white picket fence for garden #1. This is just going to be a flower garden. In the back of the yard we're going to build a 3-4 ft fence and have a flower & vegetable garden. No flowers until April, which makes me really ansy! I think I may go buy some fake flowers because I'm dying to know what it will look like


I layed out 2 bails of pine straw.


Got the leaves out of the pool. Holy CRAP this was hard and time consuming! There was like 4x as many leaves as I originally thought.

A message to the dogs (especially dirty little Novey) ...

New toy box for the dogs. This is probably better than letting the toys rot out in the yard ... agree?


Planned for tomorrow: cutting down some of the branches on the oak tree and some other trees (we have too many darn trees!). My dad will do that stuff. I'm gonna clean the patio furniture and put the new cushions on that we bought today. We're also going to set up a really nice concrete bench that we bought today.

Then I'm going to the adoption booth at Petsmart to volunteer and then I'm taking the dogs to the dogpark with my friend and her dog (who is Nova's new boyfriend ).

[Alysser]

Poor Sarah! It looks better! I think. Can't wait to see the makeover.

[Daisy and Delilah]

It looks like it's coming along nicely! It's gonna look great when you finish it. Keep showing us progress-you'll inspire me. You can plant some flowers now that are tolerant if you want to. Some pansies or dianthus would be pretty and the stores are full of them. They're great in the cool weather(even though it was pretty warm today )!!

[poofy]

your doing great..cant wait to see more results

[anna_66]

Sarah, I have to say...you've definitely made me laugh this morning
We've always thought our back yard was a redneck back yard too (especially now with the snow fence up where the pool used to be and where all the mud is at least now if we get snow it will block it from drifting onto the porch..HAHA!)

Sounds like your off to a good start, I can't wait to see how it looks when you all done

[.sarah]

LOL! Anna, that picture is too funny.

We worked in the yard a lot last Saturday but since then it has been rain rain rain! I'm going to a dog show this weekend so I'm not going to be able to work on the yard. Hopefully the rain will stop by next week. Stupid Florida