BOO!

I thought about saving landscaping for later so that come Halloween, all we'd have to do is enter the neighborhood's spooky house contest and turn out the lights. But, I went outside earlier this week to find A tearing out the rest of the "garden" because he just couldn't take it anymore. So instead of this

we have this

The before pictures actually show a little cheerier than the yard felt. It was too overgrown and tangly, and I saw one snake and way too many spiders for my liking. The little white flowers you see are wild clematis, which smelled amazing but grew like a crazy vine and overtook the entire garden down the length of the house. While the flowers looked pretty when in bloom, the yard (complete with a lawn full of weeds instead of grass) had an abandoned house kinda feel. Every neighborhood has "that house", and we were it, but no more.

Oh, and the tree in the side yard is not actually a tree, it's a huge mulberry bush! It's really pretty and shades the side of the patio, and has lots of spiders that hang down from it at night. (Do you notice my mention of spiders? I have a gift that allows me to walk into any room and immediately direct my eyes towards any eight-legged non-friend. I need to know where my enemies are. I call it my spi-dar.) Almost every day, T asks if we can hold hands and go 'round it while singing together. So we do.