This isn’t the prettiest update. (In fact, I couldn’t take a somewhat decent photo if I tried.) There are no afters. This is, hands down, all about the process. Our backyard" We’re in the thick of it. This is where we are today, and in this process, we are making progress! The only thing we can keep […]
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This isn’t the prettiest update. (In fact, I couldn’t take a somewhat decent photo if I tried.) There are no afters. This is, hands down, all about the process. Our backyard" We’re in the thick of it. This is where we are today, and in this process, we are making progress! The only thing we can keep repeating to ourself is, it gets worse before it gets better. Over and over again. We knew that going in, but when the going gets tough, it’s easy to forget. Not long ago, we took you around the exterior of our Tree House. Those photos were taken at the tail end of (a very long) winter, and today, the trees lining the perimeter are full and green. Finally! At the time of that post, the only real greenery in the yard came from 8 overgrown yews, all of which have since been pulled out. We also had a 100+ ft silver maple that had been neglected, and that’s where you came in; several landscapers (and a couple of arborists) told us that the maple had to be cut way, way back, if we wanted to salvage it at all....