let the yard work begin!

Just when we thought the "hard part" of yard work was over... it looks like we were wrong! You'd think clearing out 2 acres of trees & brush would be hard... but when you hire someone that has a bulldozer it's not too bad. Then getting all the gumball mud out and replaced with hard clay.... not too bad either (well, it was bad on our pocketbook but that's about it). Now comes the really hard part. Filling in all the holes that soak up water. Clearing out all the brush/dead trees along the road... grass... and hopefully when all that is done we'll have time & money left to plant stuff. We both want lots of fruit trees (think lemons, satsumas, peaches, blueberries, etc). Eventually we'd love to have a vegetable garden with tomatoes, okra, green beans, broccoli, etc. My paw-paw is really good at this, plus I work for the AgCenter and all.. so hopefully we won't kill everything we try to plant :)

Well here are some before & after pics of how far our property has come since I first bought it!



Hunter mowing the "grass" for the deer food plot (aka waste of a day):



He thinks my tractor's sexy (ok, it's my brother-in-law's but I look better driving it ha)



There's a hole at the bottom of the sea.... actually there's a whole lot of gumball mud and a hole that was filled with really old glass bottles, etc....



One of the many large piles of trees we burned (sorry mother nature)...



Snow doesn't stick to a muddy yard... But at least we have pretty green rye grass in some spots!



Sexy sexy! Hunter posing with his chainsaw in front of the brush we are about to tackle:



BEFORE



AFTER



More stuff for us to burn....



Still sporting my HS letterman...



Check back soon for more updates. Hopefully it will warm up and the rain will hold off for a week or so and we can get the tractor out there to "do work!"