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Mulch and Trees


 As I've told you all before--my father-in-law is a master of power tools! So he came up this past weekend to help Jeff and me with our yard. One job we wanted to get done was knocking down some trees and limbs. He brought this very cool weed eater attachment that turned it into a mini-chainsaw.


After cutting down limbs and tree stumps we had to trim the branches so we could trash them.

As you can see...we cut down a LOT! We got rid of a total of 3 trees and several tree limbs. 

Thankfully my father-in-law let us use his truck so we could take all of these limbs to the dump.

Here's a before and after-picture of our back yard. It looks so much bigger than I ever thought it could!




Eventually some more trees will be gone...we got some tree cutting people to come out and give us an estimate. So that rose bush will be moved and the tree behind it will be cut down eventually. Then the pine in the very back (that is dead) will be going bye-bye as well. Next in the fall we're going to extend the yard so that we have more than 2 feet of grass in the back. One day we'll get tired of all this yard work...but until then-bring on the projects! :)



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