The Before Shots....

The above shot is one of the back doors to the house. The other back door is inside the fence. I have been recovering the edges of the sidewalks and garden beds.

I have transplanted a bunch of daffodils from the side bed where they are overcrowded.

This is the walkway from that back door towards the neighbors. Through those large bushes there is a gate way to the neighbor. I am going to trim it at the bottom so that if Baki gets out he can get back. One day he went into the neighbors through a hole where some fence had fallen away....then he couldn't get back:( Too fat:( Not good if a dog is after you. When he does go outside the enclosed  yard we leave the back door open so he can run back inside.

The is the piece of fencing Bruce put up with Peter's help on Thanksgiving. There is a double gate you can open if  you need to drive a car into the backyard. They will need to drive a truck into the backyard when they finally take down the large dead tree you can see on the left. Hopefully it will come down this spring.

The above shot is the corner of the yard. I tried to trim an evergreen vine but accidentally chopped its head off....very sad....hopefully it will recover....it was in a terrible jumble from so many years of neglect. The fence is going to look great when I repaint it this spring. Plus there are many boards that Bruce will be fixing or replacing. Emma will foot the bill for all supplies. 

overcrowded daffodils.....

Transplanted daffodils....I have added more today....see picture below for the size of this garden space. 

Above is the garden I have cleared of all pine needles which were about six inches deep. As far as I know nothing is growing in here....yet:)

Part of the house....the enclosed back yard to the left.

This is a picture of the huge magnolia tree...

Above is before the one just below....still have to move all the pine needles off the grass....

It isn't easy to see....But, it took about two hours to clear from the edge of the fence and five feet to the left. I trimmed two bushes and removed many years of pine needles that had been so think in the bushes that below the needles was a mold of some kind....probably deadly.

This if facing the side of the house....The bushes along this fence are in need of some new additions to make a solid line or transplant some of them and add flowers between the others....they feel out of balance this way....

Chicken coop:)

Above are some of the rocks I have unearthed. I am going to add dirt on the outside to make them look settled a bit more then they do in the picture.