Landscaping and New Fence

As you all know we are trying to sell the house. I use trying loosely. We have a for sale sign in the yard but it is not in the MLS system yet. I wanted to get a few things done before showing it. New landscaping and a new fence were on top of the list. Now they are done. Hurray!!! The front landscaping had started to look sad over the last year or so. The bushes were overgrown and dry, pretty depressing. Then when we had all that snow this winter I think it was the straw that broke the camels back or branches in this case. The snow pretty much just pancaked the bushes. I had about five landscapers come out to give me a quote on the job. After seeing the drawings and plans we went with a company called S.A.T. Landscapers. They did a fantastic job. One Thursday morning I was putting laundry away. Both Brenner and Genevieve were upstairs with me. They both went quite in her room and we all know what that means...Yeah trouble. They were both looking out the window. I peeked through the blinds and saw the landscapers taring out the bushes. It was a surprise! A good one but I didn't know they were coming that day. I ran down stairs to talk to them. I wanted to get a picture of the before and bush removal. But I was too late. So I got what I could get. The landscapers worked very hard and finished it all within a few hours. I am so happy with the results. The house looks so much better. You can actually see it from the street now.
Our next big project was the neighbors fence. It was awful! It falls down with any kind of wind so we were really nervous to have the kids playing in the backyard. Our friends Michelle and Alan were wanting to put in a fence in their yard so we decided to all go in it together. The neighbors decided to pay half of the cost. Both weekends that Scott and Alan worked were rainy. It was amazing that they got as much done as they did. The first weekend they demolished the old fence and cleaned out the original post holes. Then they placed the new poles and put in the concrete. Later after more rain they went over to Alans and dug all of his post holes. Thankfully they rented and auger to do the digging. I think the thing weighed about 200 lbs so they both were sore from wrestling with it. The next weekend the fencing boards were placed and Alan did the gates. Now our neighbors want to hire Scott and Alan to do the rest of the fence. We just have to see. I think they both had enough of hard labor to last a while.