Yards

As last few days have gone by, the sun has started shining and my kids have been playing outside and I've come to realize that I really, really miss the yard at my old house :( It was nearly the perfect yard complete with shed, swingset, tons of room, garden area, patio surrounded by flower gardens and rock walls. The past few years that yard and I had come to understand each other. I knew what flowers I could plant that would bloom beautifully, I had figured out how to maintain the rocks around the flower beds and not have weeds sprouting out through all the cracks and we'd figured out that one or two tomato plants would be enough in the garden instead of 6 or 7 (they over took the whole garden spot one year). And I do remember the hard parts of it too. It took nearly 45 minutes to an hour to mow the grass and when it came to staining the fence you had a major project on hand. But a couple of nights ago I even got teary eyed laying in bed comparing the old yard with the new yard. I know, I'm sort of a mess. Still, we were so lucky to have a yard like that with the very first house we ever bought.

When Keith and I bought our new house we were completely aware that the yard would need some revamping, there's a spot on the east side where there is no grass and the yard on the outside of the fence was not very pleasing to the eye. Lucky for us we moved in the first week of November and got to enjoy having a larger house with more room during the winter months while the yard outside was hiding from us, covered in a blanket of snow. Now comes the realization that the work must begin and it's going to take a few years to get it where we want it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not afraid of a little hard work, I just want to enjoy the entirity of this house the was I did the old one. I hope that forming some new memories in our new yard will help take away the missing of the old yard.