A Thorn In Our Side

So in our not so large back yard we had these wild rose bushes; seven rose bushes to be exact! These seven rose bushes were planted by the original owner of our home and somewhere along the line were forgotten about. The bushes grew into one large mammoth rose bush, evil enough to eat a small child or man trying to mow his lawn.

Strange picture of CR and Charlie but you get the idea!

2 weekends ago CR got the itch to rip out the mass of thorny bushes and somehow talked me into helping. In a matter of 6 hours we had filled 12 yard bags! What a task! Forget aerobics, if you need a good sweat go rip bushes out of your back yard!

Thorn Free!

CR's arms after the battle....ouchy!


Now what to do??? CR had the bright idea of turning this open space into a sitting area. We found a great deal on some Adirondack chairs and started planning.


We Cut Into The Land

Leveled Out The Land

Put A Toddler To Work (and didn't pay him)

Built A Retaining Wall

Spread Some Mulch (nice booty CR)

And Set Our New Chairs In Place

On Sunday we hit up Garden Ridge for Tikki Torches and a Fire Pit...

Here is a close up... we are so thrilled with our final project!

It was worth all of the sweat, sore muscles, dirt under the nails, scrapes and blisters! CR and I make a good team! Charlie is a pretty cute side kick too! We hope your weekend was as productive as ours:)

Love to you all!

JP