As I have mentioned, in other threads, we recently bought a new house. Had to spend all my saving working on plumbing, electrical, and both still need work. While I try to save some money for the HVAC and attic insulation before winter, we turned to the yard.
The front yard was grass and weeds. A strip next to the front of the house was bare. I had my husband, last week, till the strip wider and put in several rose bushes, which I got on clearance for 5 dollars each. An investment of 35 dollars, which will improve the look of the yard. Then got 4 potted plant collections with red, white, and blue flowers on clearance for 10 each, 40 dollars.
So for 75 dollars, the front of the house looks better and can wait till next year for serious work. We also sprayed to kill some of the weeds and were planning to throw down some grass seed. We are working first to improve the back yard which is full of lots of sticker type weeds and dirt. Our next door neighbor, a man about 65 decides, apparently, due to our activity, to improve his yard. Starting with the area between our two houses.
Next thing I know he has set a HUGE trash container on our front yard on our side of the space between our two houses while he uses a bobcat to clean the area next to his driveway where he parks multiple cars. He also clears the area behind the container on our side between the houses where I’ve let him use that space as well so he can get in and out of the cars.
That side yard is weeds, gravel, and dirt. Alrighty, then, the container is there and it’s a done deal, and our space gets cleaned out. Ok, then. Once he gets the area done, he doesn’t want to mess it up, so he drives across our lawn with the bobcat to put more stuff into the container from his other side yard and front yard.
I am not happy. The bobcat tears up a section of our front yard, the front strip on the other side of the sidewalk, and puts rubber tracks all over our sidewalk. Lovely. But again, nothing I can do about it. It’s done. Sigh.
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The front yard was grass and weeds. A strip next to the front of the house was bare. I had my husband, last week, till the strip wider and put in several rose bushes, which I got on clearance for 5 dollars each. An investment of 35 dollars, which will improve the look of the yard. Then got 4 potted plant collections with red, white, and blue flowers on clearance for 10 each, 40 dollars.
So for 75 dollars, the front of the house looks better and can wait till next year for serious work. We also sprayed to kill some of the weeds and were planning to throw down some grass seed. We are working first to improve the back yard which is full of lots of sticker type weeds and dirt. Our next door neighbor, a man about 65 decides, apparently, due to our activity, to improve his yard. Starting with the area between our two houses.
Next thing I know he has set a HUGE trash container on our front yard on our side of the space between our two houses while he uses a bobcat to clean the area next to his driveway where he parks multiple cars. He also clears the area behind the container on our side between the houses where I’ve let him use that space as well so he can get in and out of the cars.
That side yard is weeds, gravel, and dirt. Alrighty, then, the container is there and it’s a done deal, and our space gets cleaned out. Ok, then. Once he gets the area done, he doesn’t want to mess it up, so he drives across our lawn with the bobcat to put more stuff into the container from his other side yard and front yard.
I am not happy. The bobcat tears up a section of our front yard, the front strip on the other side of the sidewalk, and puts rubber tracks all over our sidewalk. Lovely. But again, nothing I can do about it. It’s done. Sigh.
Continued below.