The only problem with a big yard is it translates to a whole lot of yard work! During one of our summer storms, a large limb split off from a tree and was dangling/laying in the backyard. With the help of some of the Siami men and a chain saw, we were able to get the limb completely detached from the tree and saw it into pieces/remove it from the yard.
Mrs. Siami helped us tackle the severly overgrown evergreen bushes. They were so overgrown that the front is actually only 4 bushes spread sideways. We did suffer one casualty (note the empty spot) so we will eventually need to decide what to plant here.
The previous owners left a pile of wood stacked against the house. We purchased a wood rack and moved all the wood away from the house to avoid trapping water/dirt/bugs against the house. With the extra wood we cut up from the fallen tree, we now have plenty of wood for the winter! If you look through some old pictures, you will see the side of the sidewalk was lined with white rocks. With a wheelbarrow and a shovel, we moved all the rocks away from the front and into the back. We wanted to move the rocks to make the walkway feel less cramped and because when shoveling snow, we would have ended up with lots of rocks in the lawn. To re-use these rocks, we moved them under the wood rack in the back so no vegetation would grow up underneath the wood and we would eliminate moisture. Needless to say, we had a lot of bags of yardwaste after this day!
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