chain link fence

I am beyond irritated that I don't have the proper before pic for this improvement. I seriously took so many "before" pics. Knowing this was the biggest before and after project of my entire life I walked around that house shooting from every conceivable angle...or so I thought.

To the north of the garage was a chain link fence. Like the ugliest chain link fence you've ever seen in your life. Everyone that visited the house somehow managed to smugly ask, "You keepin' the fence?" in desperate hope that we would bulldoze the heck out of it the first chance we got. It was UGLY.

The summer before my grandmother died she was feeling fiesty and went and got herself an Alaskan Huskie puppy. She was a dog lover and had always had an indoor dog that would sit in her lap, ride in her car, and pee on newspaper that she laid out for it. But she had either lost it, or was craving something different in her old age. So, Natasha, her new one blue/one green eyed beast was her new pet. She was planning on keeping her inside but that lasted all of one minute before she quickly called the fence guy and had this hideous pen put up. In ten years it had completely fallen apart and as we were taking it down, realized he had only put concrete in 1/2 of the post holes. Poor grandma got scammed. But at least it made it easier for us to get that piece outta there!

Hopefully you can see to the right in this pic the yucky fence:
























And here's the backyard sans falling over fence:

Now there are still tons of trees to trim...but those two new baby trees are Hazelnuts. We planted one in honor of my Uncle Brad who passed away on March 31st and one in honor of his granddaughter (the light of his life) Hazel.

And because you will probably ask...Yes, that is a bell down there. My great-grandmother Vernie Belle was a school teacher in a one room school house in Western Oklahoma. That was the bell in her school house and when it closed down, my Grandma gave it to my Papa in honor of his mother. It needs to be rehung but will totally remain on the farm!