Heeeeeyy!  Yay!  Progress!

Suddenly, in a flash, outta nowhere, I finally had an idea for the back stair.  The steps anyway.  The rest of the embarrassing disaster area, yeah, grrr not so much yet.

It's one of those areas that will always be messy, dirty, muddy, filled with grass clippings or leaves n' junk and crud and just a giant disaster.  Which is hugely frustrating to me.  Goal for the back stair:  minimize the mess.

Before.  And my shadow.  What's he looking at"  Good question, I dunno.Several occasions of standing at the top, light on, long stares = nothing.

I mean.  I am so embarrassed.  It's filthy.  And awful.  Just awful.  And I suffer the view multiple times daily.I happened to casually stroll by on my way to the pantry, glance to my right and bam!, peel and stick wood look vinyl plank tiles* popped into my beady head.  Hey!  Relief ensued.
My shopping adventure began at the Menards website where I thought I had found two good options.  Key:  thought.  When I got to the store though, turns out one was that click snap connect floating whatever that won't work and the other looked too cheap and pathetic, I couldn't.

There's one of the two staple pullers* I bought.  While it does seem to help, I can't say it's as revolutionary as they purport. Again, ignore the major mess.  Please.Sooooo I zipped over to Home Depot.  As I was perusin...