jungle no more

We have a small back yard that has, despite the best efforts of my parents, run wild. Like weeds growing up and through the furniture wild. Our living room has french doors that open out to it, and it is fenced in and the garage is on the other side of it. So it's not exactly in our way - we have been able to let nature run free back there without paying too much attention.

Up until now. We have started to transform it into a patio, with a few flowerbeds and a bench. The patio part is in now, just being finished. I'll post some pictures soon. We'll add plants in containers and maybe a palm tree when it's done. We're very excited about the whole thing.

And perhaps you thought I was being dramatic in my earlier post about how you wouldn't dare sit on the grass here in Texas for fear of creatures... when they deforested our back yard, they found and killed NINE snakes. NINE snakes, people.