Sunday, July 29, 2012

lawn care

today we took our first steps toward putting order to the yard of our soon-to-be place.  weeding... a thousand thistles.  mowing.  line trimming.  snail finding (that was william).  attempted roly-poly eating (that was henry).  

here is a bit of the backyard, post-mowing... 


here are a couple of brothers and a wheelbarrow... 


the great henzini... with his 80's hair style...

while working on the front yard, we met two of our soon-to-be neighbors.  one was a family that had lived in this house two years ago.  they'd swapped houses with our landlord (and his tenant occupier) because he was looking for a smaller place and they were looking for a larger place.  then two years ago, they swapped back.  

they missed this house, they said.  and it had the best apples on the tree out back (though it does not seem to be producing much this year).  she had left the photo album of the garden, given to her by the former (and original) owner.  he had built the shed behind henry and william in the photos above.  it felt good to know that people who'd lived here had loved this place and still did, especially as i feel i'm still very much warming up to it.  

tomorrow brings a new week and hopefully a lot of progress on getting the inside ready for the impending move.  

2 comments:

nina said...

Do warm up to it! I love it from afar!
(My prediction: when the time comes for you to move out, you'll cry.)

greg|regan said...

Nina,

Check back in 2 1/2 years to see if you were correct. When I was 12 and moving, I carved my name into my top closet shelf. Maybe if I really love it, I'll do something like that again. =)