I was so focused on fixing up the interior, that maintaining the backyard was pretty much out of the question. I hired a gardner to mow the front lawn and generally keep things up, but I didn't give him access to the backyard, mostly due to the fact that it was the construction headquarters.
It has taken a beating pretty much from day one. I turned off the sprinklers, so that we weren't watering our building materials, which meant that the grass died. Then one of the dead avocado trees fell over in a storm (God was smiling on me though - it fell in the perfect position to miss both the garage and the cinderblock wall). Random chairs started showing up back there, positioned conveniently so that the neighbor kids could climb over the back fence whenever they wanted... it was about that time that things started disappearing from the workshop.
In short, the backyard is a hazard. Think I'm exaggerating? Check it out...
And this is actually after we'd made some effort to clean things up! I wish I could say "stay tuned for the big reveal" but sadly, there is no big reveal. This is pretty far down the priority list for right now, and I have a feeling it's going to be one of those projects that gets worse before it gets better. Heaven help us all!
