Its very easy for us to ignore our yard work, since our “yard” is merely dirt and weeds at this point. We plan to save landscaping until next year, since we just got here, and even if we wanted to do it this year, it wouldn’t be wise. Because of that, we’ve barely looked at the ground around our house all autumn. And now, as snow comes and goes and threatens its return, I see juuust how bad our yard looks!
Our front yard is just weeds. Tall, crispy, ugly weeds. But honestly, thats the least of the problem.
When the house next door was at the framing stage, the framer had a zoom boom on site, and he left deep ruts right beside our driveway. The driveway area is still in tact, but still very much on our property, there were big ruts. We aren’t nitpicking, but in thinking about landscaping next year, we considered calling the home builder from next door and asking them to come even things out. But we didn’t, and not too long after, someone came out with a skid steer, and we figured they’d take care of their mess.
Aaaaand they didn’t. So Brady called and spoke to someone who was in charge of at least part of the build process. He was really understanding and said he’d arrange to have someone come and smooth the area out a bit. Before hanging up, he asked Brady “Anything else I can do for you?” Brady mentioned to him that he’s seen a lot of people drive across our backyard. They kind of agreed not a whole lot could be done about it, since we have no fence or barrier, and its very wide open, job site ish. But he said he’d mention it anyway, and the conversation ended.
Within the hour, a bobcat was next door, filling in the space beside our driveway. They even went above and beyond, and smoothed out our entire backyard! It was sooo even and uniform. They took a lot of time on it. It was pretty awesome.
Now I don’t remember if it was that day, or the next day, but when Brady arrived home from work in the afternoon, there were ruts beside our driveway, again. He went into the garage and grabbed a chunk of wood to throw on our property line to at least try to send a message to the trades. While he was doing this, he actually ran into a guy on site, and he happened to be the guy Brady has spoken to on the phone. He was apologetic and they had a short discussion. A very successful discussion! We agreed to look past the ruts and people in our backyard until all of the exterior and foundational stuff was done, and then someone would come out, fill in our ruts, smooth out our backyard, and even level our front yard and clear away all of our weeds! Hahaha! So our slacking off saved us from having to pull an entire front yard worth of weeds!
As I stand in my kitchen and look out my back window only to see a concrete truck drive across my backyard, then back up and readjust a couple hundred times, I’m SO relieved we made this deal! You’d better believe that, when their build is all over and our property is level once more, we’ll be putting up some kind of post and rope system at least so this doesn’t happen again (or at least to this extent) when people build on the other side of us.
Thats all I have for today! As I’m sure you know, it was a full moon last night. Plus all four of my kids are n the beginning stages of colds. And Solly cut his second tooth last night. So my hands are FULL this morning, and the laptop no longer fits !