Our New Yard

We have been struggling with our yard ever since we moved into our house (2 full years ago now). At first it was all over grown and weedy so we decided to rip it all out and start over by laying down grass seed. lots of man hours later we had a green lawn but no grass. Then it seemed no matter how much we worked on the yard the weeds we taking over before the grass could even get a hold. So, for the last year we have weeded and sprayed and everything else but still we could not play in the yard without getting poked and scraped and probably bring sand spurs back in the house with you. Now we have taken a totally different turn we pulled it all up and covered it with mulch. Our yard is red and our flower beds are black. It is great! The yard is no longer pokey it is soft and squishy. You can run around in it without getting hurt. We still have our rose bushes and other plants as well as places we have already made to bring in a few more plants we already have in mind. We are also going to make a couple little pathways with stepping stones and have already made the design for a tunnel/archway.

There is a vine running along our fence which is really thick and at certain times during the year has little white flowers on it so we are going to built a long archway near the fence using the vine to cover it, the way this vine grows it will be totally covered in no time. We have been spending a lot of time outside now that the yard is so nice. Chance loves to run around with Deedle, they are great buddies. He takes Deedle's leash and they run around the bushes and play together, another project we have in mind is closing the area under the house with lattice and putting a little gate at the back of the house, to keep Deedle (and Chance) out of our renters little part of the yard, when we get that finished we don't have to keep Deedle on his leash when he is in the backyard. For now they have a good time but sometimes Deedle's leash gets tangled on things which is both annoying and sometimes funny. One of their new things to do while playing outside is sit on the bench together, Deedle just jumps right up there and so does Chance.