Dirt under my finger nails, yuck!

Our yard, depending on how you fancy cleaning dirt from all of your crevices, is either heaven or hell. The woman who owned this house for fifty some odd years was the quintessential English gardener. There are trees on top of shrubs on top of flowers.

My parents are in town, so I immediately put them to work cleaning and pruning. my father and I also tackled the task of cleaning up our festering cauldron of a pond in the backyard. Annie was a great help too, as she can step on a pile of dirt like no other. Here are the before pictures. Tomorrow and Friday I will post the afters.