House Pics Before

As I said yesterday, here are some photos of the backyard. Not very pretty and a real mess. All overgrown and negelected for years. Trees wee ;planted right next to the chain link so the trees grew into the fence.

We removed all the trees except the far left one as its  not too close fence, The entire fence leaned over from the weight of the trees. With the escavator, our son pushed the fence up to where it should be which really make a difference. Now we just have to figure out how to get the wood out of the fence. It might be iinpossible  In that case, its new chain link.. We're also considering a retraining wall as the property behind us is higher. The former owners also planted ivy which wss really taking over both our yard but our neighbors. We're removing it, of course. WE have removed some of it.

In the left corner of the property, was a huge agave and other assorted plants.

Our son tried to chop it out but found out he's allergic to agave juice!. He broke out on his arms so he used the excavator and dug this all out. We're going to put in a new rebuilt shed.
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The shed is now in pieces and we're working on moving the gate back about 10 ft, so his truck will fit.

so you can see  how busy its been ,;plus its been about 100 degrees every day.
Our plans are to have some raised beds for vegetables and we did ;plant a orange tree already. We're going to redo the patio also. The slab is cracked in several pieces but that's a future project.

and finally,

Good Morning!

Good Sunday morning!
 Wow! we've been really busy. So sorry I've neglected posting.
The house and grounds have really been a challenge for us old folks and our son too. He's really careful to do things as he can afford them. Smart young man as he's not going to get into credit card debt.
As I said before, we put in new floors and painted the inside. It made a big difference.
Then Alan and I have been doing what we can on the outside. He cut down two trees that were in bad places and half dead. The other three, he trimmed them  back, got rid of any bad limbs and they look much better. None of the trees had been watered for a long time and were barely surviving with our hot temperatures.

Yesterday Son brought in a excavator and did some heavy work. He's preparing the side of the house to park his truck. That side had a large wooden shed attached to the house. It was in terrible shape. So Alan took alot of it apart and saved all the good wood in it. He and our son will be rebuilding it in a different location, using as much of the original wood as they can. They did manage to save one window too. Alan found alot of rat droppings, dust and dirt.

Its all a work in progress.

This is the side of the house with the shed almost apart. This is before the excavator. It will be a good place to park his big truck.

Here is the excavator, He rented it from Home Depot.
Here "was" the wood pile. Yes, we do have a nice brick fireplace. We had a  chimney sweep service come out and make sure it was safe. It passed inspection and they cleaned it just to make sure.
After the excavator it's in a huge pile which we'll go through for the best wood and get rid of the rest.

 Everything here is a little funky as we said in the 60s. But with TLC, its getting better. All the fencing here is chain link for some reason.
I'll show you more pics tomorrow.

Oh, I forgot to say I guess we're keeping the kittens. They've grown alot and are in to everyting. Happy and healthy.