• Outdoor Projects

    Weeds Be Gone

    This is probably the most revealing thing I’ve shared on this here blog, but I know I can’t be alone! When it’s cold outside (i.e. Winter), yard maintenance is practically nonexistent at my house. No weeds are pulled, no beds edged, nor any grass mowed. Add in a newborn and I’m embarrassed to claim my yard as my own. But that’s why we have Spring! A season of renewal. You see, when I first bought my house it had sat vacant for over 3 years. So the yard was just gross and overgrown. After we pretty much demolished and rebuilt the landscaping, I took it as a personal goal to…

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    Planting a Mailbox Garden

    I love getting out in the yard and getting some dirt under my fingernails. Even though I wear gloves, dirt somehow still ends up there! Any who that’s the besides the point. Tiffany needed some updates to her mailbox area to improve the curb appeal of her house. Her mailbox wasn’t in the best of shape and she had a weird off-center walkway from the previous homeowners. So our first order of business was to remove the old mailbox and post and install a new one. No sense in planting pretty flowers around a rough-looking mailbox! It turns out the post wasn’t in concrete. No wonder it had a wobble…