In the beginning

One of the reasons why we talk about our gardens so much is that we are rather proud of ourselves. We bought our house in October 2006, and although we fell in love immediately, it had the most desolate, "blank canvas" of a backyard. Maybe that is why we loved it. This is what it looked like:




Note the ugly chain-link fence exposing our neighbor's pile of junk. Here's another one:


The point here is to show the sad, lonely bird bath in a sea of green. The poor birds...they felt so exposed...

It was a bit daunting at first, but we got to work right away to transform our personal landscape. Lisa's sister, Jen, built us a fence to hide the blight, and we went to work removing as much lawn as our skinny bodies could handle. Here's the work in progress:




So now, 2 1/2 years later, we tend to marvel at the progress we've made. And we still enjoy doing it. Our goal is to have no lawn at all, save for a small patch for Vivian. Here's the current status:



oohh, ahhhh.....