You never fully realize how important a space is until you can’t use it. Our backyard is undergoing major renovation right now. We had to dig out the caps for the septic, which resulted in the removal of the stairs on the bottom deck (who builds stairs over a septic access???). There was 7 days to go until our birthday party, which is today (thunder storms or no thunder storms), and the stairs were off, and the fence was coming down. Now I was faced with the prospect of having children running around the yard with no stairs, two huge holes, and several small fence post holes.
Thankfully the septic people were able to come on Monday, the holes were filled in quickly, thanks to the help of our neighbours 4 wheeler! The stirs were up, but there were still fence posts and metal stakes sticking out of the ground, with no end in sight.
Last night at around 9pm the last of the metal stakes was out, and with the exception of the fence, the backyard looked pretty good.
So this past week has been pretty hard, since Angus’ favorite place to be is in the backyard, running free within the confines of the fence. Without the fence, we had to have an eagle eye on him, reminding him to stay out of the garden, where the pulled down fence posts were (nails in them and all). We had to keep him in the yard, not drawing on the neighbours driveway with chalk – YIKES!
We are very happy to have the yard together again for today, to celebrate my 40th and Angus’ 4th birthday! Now if we could only get Mother Nature to co-operate and hold off on the rain!
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