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Schubert HQ: front yard landscaping progress

We’ve made progress on Schubert HQ this summer!!

Granted, this project cost us money we would have rather not had to spend … but this project HAD to be done for our HOA deadline, and we simply didn’t have the time to do it ourselves.

The backyard, though. [...]

I’m so lucky Andrew enjoys yardwork

The other day, when I saw my father-in-law …. I made a point of thanking him for making Andrew do yardwork growing up.

Now that we have our house …. and the summer weather is warming up …. Andrew LOVES spending his mornings or afternoons or whenever he happens to be off work out [...]

Schubert HQ: planting in the front yard

We have quite a bit of yard work to do …. so we started with one of the smallest pieces….

This small piece of yard to one side of the driveway was ankle+ high in weeds …

Andrew spent a couple days clearing the weeds and [...]

FOUND: about 15 square feet of land on our property

As soon as I got home from the gardening/composting class, I walked around our property a little bit (I use “property” very loosely as our lot is less than 5000 sq ft) ….. trying to think about what changes I wanted to make, where we could put the compost bin and other things ….

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