I haven't really been getting outdoors too much except to drive the kids around and do errands, but I've sure been enjoying the nice fall weather we've been having, and all the beautiful changing colors. We've been lucky to have more sunny days than normal for here this time of year. I think it's going to be a rainy Halloween :( Boo!
These are from my back patio. The sky and trees were just so beautiful that afternoon! We don't really have the greatest yard to hang out in, it's kind of 2 side yards and we can see right over the fence out our back windows, but the neighbors yard is kind of wooded. And looking past the wires we've been seeing deer out looking for food over the fence almost every day. It's weird because we are pretty close to a big shopping area, I wouldn't expect them to come in here, but there was a whole deer family sleeping just a few yards away from our back door for almost 2 weeks! Mike's parents had a whole flock of wild turkeys our their front window this morning, & they are not exactly out in the country either. Cool happenings!
So speaking of our back yard... One of the previous owners of our house thought it would be a good idea to re-purpose the broken slabs of concrete from an old driveway they replaced as raised garden beds in the backyard. They also made a path and lined them all along the fence in an attempt to keep wild critters out (so a neighbor tells us). There was a lot of broken concrete, and it was not exactly a selling point in our minds. (So ugly) So we planned to get rid of it, but when we looked into dumping it, or hiring someone to help us we got some pretty crazy estimates of what it would cost. $5,000 to $10,000! Um, what!? We were imagining late night ditching it out the back of the car over the next year or so - because it was a lot of concrete! Maybe more than just the one driveway's worth... And it was heavy. Total back breaking work lifting even one block. But anyway, we totally lucked out and the nice neighbors who have had our girls over to their girls' birthday parties since we moved here happen to be affiliated with a concrete cutting company. Mike asked his advice and he totally offered to lend his "little" dump truck and bobcat and ended up loading it all up for us on his own time (3 loads) and taking it to a concrete dump that was much cheaper per cubic yard (since concrete is super heavy) and all we had to pay was the dump fee!! It was awesome!!! Talk about going above and beyond! He even took the gravel from the front side yard that we wanted to get rid of (Load number 4) and dumped it on his dad's gravel road. We lucked out with some pretty nice neighbors! Tried to find a before shot of the garden beds, but since I didn't like it I didn't really take any pictures of them, but you can kind of see part of one in one of the photos above. But here's the after. It's so nice to us to see it gone! Feels like a much bigger yard, and a clean slate for us to start on in the spring.
Super nice neighbor in that bobcat right there. We totally owe them!
It's so nice when some things work out!!
Oh, and a funny one to end on:
Love my little character!
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