We are still enjoying our house tremendously. Slowly, but surely, we have been able to get things unpacked or stored in the basement. It's amazing how much stuff we have. Our 2 bedroom condo in LA was significantly smaller than our new home. Also, we didn't have a basement or garage for storage. How the heck did we manage to store everything that is now starting to crowd our basement?! Our condo wasn't cluttered and I could open the closets without a ton of stuff falling on my head. I have no idea how we ended up with so much stuff. It almost seems like it expanded in the move.
A lot of the boxes I've been opening and wondering why I even moved it here. And we sorted through a lot of stuff while we were packing. We donated a lot of stuff to Goodwill. Somehow junk managed to find it's way here.
One of the things that we've been focusing our attention on is our yard. It's pretty overgrown at this point. I have to admit that WS and I really don't know anything about yardwork. Although he does know how to handle a mower. He even borrowed one to mow the yard when we first moved in. Aside from that, we don't know what to do. It's difficult for us because winter is approaching and I'm not really sure what to do for the plants to prepare for the snow. Do we pull them out? or do we just let them die? A lot of our flowers have been topped by rabbits. So, I probably should pull those flowers out, but what should I plant in their place? Since it's fall I don't think it's a good idea to plant another type of flower. Maybe I should plant bulbs? Basically we have no idea what we're doing. I like to garden, but my gardening has been limited to a few patio pots of geraniums.
We have decided to bring in a landscaper. I was reluctant to do that (because they can be very pricey), but I think that we really have no other options. The front and back yards have many different types of plants that we would like to remove. In the front there's this big circular patch of ivy surrounding a tree. It's huge and we consider it an eyesore. It's also overgrown at this point. The entire side yard is filled with ivy plants that are sprouting up everywhere. Of course I tried to pull some out last weekend. I think that ivy roots are made of steel. I could not get them to budge an inch.
We want to remove the ivy and other "fence climbing" plants that have been planted and replace them with grass or low maintenance shrubs. I would love to have flowers, but I think that maybe I can just do those in pots. Our neighbor has all of their flowers (which are just beautiful) in pots. So we'll see. We have 2 landscapers coming within the next week to give us an estimate. Yikes! I hope it's not too terribly expensive.
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