The holidays are over, people, and so is the time for slacking off! We've been chipping away at the World's Worst Backyard, while fervently hoping that someone from HGTV would just whisk us away on a luxury vacation and install water features and fire pits while we're getting spa treatments. Apparently there is no Santa Claus, because that did not happen.
And while we'd been eating holiday cookies and sipping eggnog, our weed collection has been thriving! Check out Garrett, attempting to stem the tide (pun intended).
No, that's not grass he's standing on, those are geranium weeds that he's chopped down to the nub. Seeing how much work there was still to do, and feeling a bit overwhelmed with it all, I decided to put aside the wimpy weed whackers and wheelbarrows, and call in the big guns.
That's right, we rented a Bobcat! I had first answered a craigslist ad for a Bobcat operator who would also haul the dirt away, but he wanted over $1500! Then I found American Rentals, who rents and delivers Bobcats for the bargain price of $441.50. After renting a dumpster for $166, I was still at less than half of the price of the first estimate. Plus we got to drive the Bobcat, which was good fun.
The trickest part was getting it up the driveway, under the patio cover, and into the yard, without unintentionally tearing anything down. But we did it! And after a long day's work, our Disaster is a little less dire.
All the stumps and plastic bins of questionable contents have been removed and disposed of. I never though it would be so nice to see a backyard composed entirely of dirt!
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