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Curb Appeal

When we first moved in the previous owners put fake flowers (FAKE FLOWERS from like the Dollar Store) all up the walkway and some mulch. It was a quick fix but wasn't sustainable and looked pretty bad. With the rainstorms we get the mulch would flood over and after a year and a half this is what our walkway looked like. It was embarrassing. Due to Elliott's work schedule, a tight budget and just not knowing what to do we didn't do anything. 

Overtime has been cut due to cases at work coming to a drastic halt throughout this virus which is definitely scary. We are a bit concerned about the future but one bonus is we've been able to see Elliott a lot more and were able to tackle this walk way situation.

We drove by many yards trying to figure out what to do. We needed easy maintenance but also looked nice.  We thought the bushes would be a good solution and found some on sale. We bought some rock to fill in the smaller planter and then went to work on these bushes. Holy canoli we had no idea what we were in for. We figured the ground would be easy to dig into because it had recently rained. It wasn't until we tried to get further than 8 inches we realized this was a bigger job than we thought. It was so challenging but one of  Elliott's admirable characteristics is that he is able to persevere and work until it's done.

 It took about 7 hours to completely finish. We were exhausted and literally a week later as I'm sitting here writing this my lower back still aches and it hurts to walk. Hahaha.
But my goodness what an improvement! It's not done we want to put mulch or rock around the bushes, the front porch needs work as well as the planter in the front yard, but this is a huge first step that we are really happy with.

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