Then and now.

This is a photo of my backyard when I moved in. When I bought the place, there was a good 2' of snow on the ground, so I really had no idea what was back there. After the snow melted, we discovered it was quite a pit. I had little to no (closer to 'no') experience in gardening and yard work. So little by little I cleaned and planted grass and somehow along the way (it's been 3 years) a backyard started shaping up. Then I got a dog and she killed the grass and made it pit-like again.

April 2005.

April 2008.

Here it is as of yesterday morning. Before the rains came and flooded it and made it all muddy. I think the grass seed floated away too. If I was staying any longer, I would lose the chain-link fence and put in a nice wooden fence. It's mostly all wood around it anyway, just part of one side and the back. It's the chain-link removal that would be the pain. But it will be someone else's pain, not mine! The grass is coming along (I helped it a little tiny bit with photoshop...) It's in the shade most of the day, so it's hard to grow. But now that I am not allowing the dog back there, it might have a chance.