Last weekend our friends once again came to our rescue.  We are completely indebted to them.

Our poor yard was in need of some serious TLC and apparently all you need to fix that situtation is about a dozen friends, my mom, a tiller, a trencher, a dog, two yards of mulch,and a whole crapload of yard tools....and maybe some drinks along the way.

The result is nothing short of miraculous. 

We now have our sump pump hose dug in so no ugly tubing is sitting in the front yard.  All the lily of the valley has been tilled up and sprayed with weed killer (it choked out a huge portion of our front yard).  I have a new flower bed around our apple tree and bushes with a little foot path and my gorgeous copper birdbath in it.  Mom worked on the flower beds along the sides of the house and weeded/redid those.  I have a small herb/vegetable garden right out the back door and a nice little rock garden area for the garbage can and the hose reel to sit on.  They dug up several little trees and tore out a huge stump and the mis-shapen bush in front of the house.

I have some pics of the hard workers that I'll post now, but I'll have to get a few more of the finished product.

Here's Tam and Jeri weeding and generally fixing up my front flower bed.

Steve and Adam contemplating how to dig up one of the many annoying little trees on the side of our house.

Adam and Steve reign supreme over the tree!

Pat tills up my new flower bed!

This bloody bugger won't come out!

In comes Steve Taylor with the super manly tools!

Looks like an in depth discussion....

More helpers including Miss Geebers.

Thanks again guys.  Our yard looks better than ever!

T