The basketball court is on the bottom tier. It is usually covered in toys and weeds. I.... ok we (I put the boys to work hee hee) had to sweep and weed it today....fun, fun, fun....
These are the stone stairs that go down to the bottom tier. We thought they were so quaint before we moved in........see how the stairs above are all cover in vine, oh, and the stairs are not at all kid friendly.....sadly.....
We have a wooded section of the bottom tier, I love this part of the back yard, the scrub oak is fabulous and it is shaded.
There are three tiers here....two with lilacs on them....interestingly enough Isaac is SUPER allergic to lilacs, had a really bad asthma attack this spring after playing in the back when they were in bloom....awesome.....the bottom tier has some kind of bush in it, I have not been diligent in weeding and so it gets really overgrown with weeds and it kills the bushes....hee hee, we have lost like 4 already.....
We thought the deck was so cool before we moved in, now that I live here I have nightmares of some child falling off it and dying.....it is now off limits to everyone.....everyone...... pretty sad because the view is fantastic.....
Ok, so I was having a really bad attitude about my yard until I started to blog. It looks so nice in the pictures and now it is so clean, and unweedy. I am feeling pretty lucky to have a great back yard for boys.....I think I need to be more grateful for what I have....that might last right up to the time I have to spend another day in the yard with the spiders and weeds.....
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We've only been dealing with a yard for a couple of months or so and I've already thought, "why did we want our own house so bad?" (If you don't include the fact that we can't live with my aunts forever.)
I totally agree with you on the deck. I would be paranoid too. There will come a day when you won't have to worry soo much (maybe) and then it will be a lot more enjoyable.
Bug! That is a fabulous yard!!! You need to quit worring so much and just enjoy it! Buy yourself a great patio set, put it on that deck, BBQ out there and put a fire pit (the raised kind that you can buy at Home Depot/ Target/ Walmart/etc)out there too. Roast some marshmellows and make some smores and just threaten the hell out of the kids not to get climb on the railings. And if they do, just make sure that the tramp in right under it and they can just jump off of the rail onto the tramp! Sadly, this is what my kids do with Glen's kids off their balcony. My heart sank the first few times,,,,then I got used to it.
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