Noel Scissorhands

Okay, it's been a few weeks since I took the plunge, so cut me a little slack on the photo. Let me just make it clear that up until almost 3 weeks ago, we hadn't trimmed our outside bushes...EVER. We have been in our home since March, our landscaping was put in in January, and it was the end of October by now; so you can only imagine what the front of our home looked like...CRAP. I was embarassed when I would be out front doing something and see a neighbor walk by. We have such a beautiful home and our yard looked ghetto. To even add to the ghettoness, we STILL have our trailer that we bought to move from AK sitting in our driveway with a HUGE FOR SALE sign on it. Andrew seems to think that it will just magically sell by sitting on our empty street with only 3 other neighbors on the entire block. Honey, I hate to break it to you, but I don't think so. If we had a vehicle that I could properly move the trailer to a for sale lot, I would do it for him.

Moving On.

I couldn't take the front yard any longer. Andrew didn't want to mess with it because really, he is lazy and afraid of what he might come across in such a jungle of a yard. He wanted to hire a crew to do it for us, but I wasn't about to pay someone $200 to spruce things up when we are perfectly capable of doing so ourselves. So, I got my ass out there and took care of business with these..... Yes, they are kitchen shears!

We don't own ANY yard tools, or other handy tools for that matter, so I did what I had to do with what I had. I really am proud of myself that I did such a thing and pat myself on the back whenever I am coming and going. People were literally driving by and watching what I was doing in their family minivans. It was by far the greatest forearm workout I have ever had.

Now if only I can get Andrew to move the damn trailer.....fat chance.