Yard Work

Before

After

The relatives are coming! The relatives are coming !!the family reunion is this coming weekend which means a great deal of the FAM coming to Utah most specifically Murray and possibly our house and it's been a tough year and we are not ready. I have been the focus of this last 14 months and the house and yard of taken a major hit as I've gone through surgeries and rehabilitation. Some things just have to take precedent and it's been me. The yard is been out-of-control this spring. Dianne and I have managed to cut the front yard couple times but the backyard is virgin jungle. It is never been as wild like as it is or was up till yesterday in the 24 years we've been here.

Saturday, Sunday we discussed and discussed issues and one of them was to figure out what to do with the house for the family got here. I chose her out a solution to the yard. So Monday morning I consulted K SL.com which has a great classified listing on just about everything and yard work was no exception.I quickly found two possibilities one was a kid who was part of a basketball team that was trying to raise money and sounded okay for a while. I told him we would do it but it have to come over and check it out first because the yard the backyard was so hideous. Then we found out that he didn't have his own lawnmower and ours is not working right now. Then you want to do it the next day as opposed to last night and it just didn't look like it was going to work. So, I contacted the other name and he was right on it, texting you back and come in right over. He was a bit overwhelmed with the backyard but said he could do it he and his partner. Their young guys living in neighborhood trying to make a business go hungry enough to promises anything. They had a bit of a project to do before us the promise that come back that evening and they did.

There were three of them Joshua, Joshua and the little brother and they went right to it. It had two other lawnmowers one worked exceptionally well and was tough enough to actually take down the weeds in the back. So got the front yard in the backyard done the cost a bit but to have the mess down the back down and down before the family arrives is well worth the investment and we well contract with these little dudes for the rest of the summer. They can come over once every two weeks or so. They did a fast job, working hard to get the job done before nightfall with a stiff wind blowing. A lot of the backyard looks like a bad haircut and the only thing that will cure a bad haircut is to let it grow out and cut it again which I think will be our game plan. Sadly, a lot of the weeds have gotten such a hold they've really become quite sturdy almost like little trees I don't know what the solution for that will be. But it's certainly something to work on and get us back online as far as property owners and neighborhood folk go.