Wow. So it's been over a month now. Obviously, Matt and I have been busy in the yard. However, this week we've done a lot of nothing. I worked a lot, which is also my story for the whole month of July. It's also very hot here. The radio said it was the hottest summer on record here. Blah. We installed soaker hoses in the garden beds (by "we" I mean Matt.) We are in the process of getting the trees taken out. I still sometimes feel a twinge of bad treehugger coming out of me from time to time. I remind myself that it's for the remaining trees' health. I think our final number will be eleven fully mature trees in our yard. The tree service has done everything except grind the stumps out, which they're doing tomorrow. No pictures this time. I don't have time to upload them. The blog is just a side track right now. I actually got on to see pictures of our adorable nephew, Jason. The cutest baby ever! I thought I knew where the camera was, but now that I think about it... I have no idea. Not too much in the way of visual appearance has happened to the yard. I did finally weed-eat the weeds in the back left of the back yard to the height of the grass. It looks a lot better now. I've been working on breaking down the old carriage house foundation. Since that's probably the sunniest part of the backyard, I want to get working on that ASAP. However, there is a lot of old, pebbly concrete back there. We will post pictures as soon as we can of the new look of our yard sans overgrown trees. Our next tree project: removing the dead wood out of the trees. And there's a lot of it!