Brown Thumbs at it again.

The people who had the house before us, in addition to never painting a single room, also had a penchance for letting their plants run amok. They left instructions to "just let the garden go and see what comes up". Yeah, right. We gave it a year or two and got tired of it. So we got out the trusty Roundup and had a shoot out at the OK Corral. Mint is a surprisingly sturdy plant. Very resilient and likes to travel. The vaguely rectangular brown spot with a strip of green on top used to be the garden. It was a bunch of black eyed susans and several types of mint with the odd ornamental grass thrown in. I decided to have an excuse to use powertools and go to Home Depot, and set up a raised bed to plant some stuff in.
Bryce helped Kim in the front yard while Daddy worked in the back.
Look Mommy! A Weed! I will pick it and eat it for you. Aren't I helpful?

The pink stuff all over the ground is from the flowering tree in the front yard. I don't know what kind of tree it is. I almost went into Landscape architecture. Probably best that i didn't. Its a pretty tree when it's blooming, then all of a sudden last week we came home and it had dropped all it's petals and left us a pink lawn.
Not quite finished, but infinitelly improved. Somehow we are going to get some grass in the back yard. we may have to go with Turf. the pile of stuff on the green tarp is all the roots that i sifted out of the dirt after building the frame. It was long, tedious and dirty, but surprisingly satisfying.