Tuesday, June 9, 2009

A Better View

We like our neighborhood. It's fairly quiet, and some younger families are starting to move in. It's not the place we plan to be forever, but it's been a great place to start out. Sadly enough, our next door neighbor doesn't care to enjoy his backyard as much as enjoy ours. For the past four years we've looked at an old broken down car he's meant to restore for the past 10 or so years and completely overgrown trees and falling down fence.


The first year we planted honeysuckle on the chain link fence hoping desperately that it would grow quickly and hide the mess. I think it really only added to the picture of chaos. We have talked about putting up a privacy fence on that side of the yard, but we never wanted to spend the money, thinking we had more important projects for that money. But this spring Randy priced the project and it was a lot cheaper than we thought. So right after Wyatt was born, Randy got to work.
Once he got the post holes dug, the fence went up super fast!

It's a great view now! Neat and clean with rose of sharon bushes breaking up the long wood fence, we think it makes our yard look larger. And no longer do we sit on the patio and mourn the old car. Good work, honey!!

2 comments:

Beth said...

We did that several years ago and it was one of the best investments we made, it actually made our backyard look bigger as well.We were trying to avoid looking at the funeral home behind our house.

Lindsay said...

Very nice - and yes, much better than an old car view. :-)