Backyard Renovation

It has taken us four years to do it, but we finally had all of the overgrown debris and mess cleared out of our backyard. Half of our backyard was unusable because there were huge old tree stumps, briars, copious amounts of ivy, bamboo, and random overgrown bushes and trees filling the space. It took a crew of 5 men two days and 5 dump truck loads to clear everything out, cut down a few trees, and get us as close as they can to being able to plant grass and spread mulch. They did let me know that they found two pretty dangerous areas that they were able to fix- one was a collapsed downspout drain that left a sizable hole that Taylor or Baxter could have fallen into. Another really scary risk was an old metal barrel that was buried in the ground filled 3 feet with water. The top was half way off. It gives me chills to think what would have happened if Taylor or Baxter would have accidentally fallen in. No worries now though. Everything was fixed and filled in!! My hat is off to Monte Gant's tree service!! We are very excited that we now have a safe place for Baxter and Taylor to play!! Now we just have to find out how green our thumbs are. We have never started grass or a vegetable garden from "scratch" before.

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ahhhhh....After: