Front yard

One of the first projects we tackled was to remove this hideous hedge in front of the house. Since I was worried about security (these things were huge - like 7 ft tall) and full of bugs, my father in law used his old pickup and we used mattocks and shovels and were able to remove all of the hdeges, leaving a lot of weeds in places where they were. The lawn was also full of European Chafer beetle.

Here are a couple of pics of what the front yard looked liked:

These photos are from June of 2005. To give you an idea, the hedges were above the two small bushes that you see to the right of the steps, and from the street view in the last entry, you would not have been able to see the house.