Day 1000: part two

We've covered the deck already in the last post, but there was more work to be done outside, and that doesn't even count all the trees felled to give the house more natural light and us less fruit to attract bees). One big job was turning the back fence from an overgrown and moldy mess...

Into a cleaned, stained, and uncovered backdrop to the yard.

Along the side of the driveway was more of the same when we bought the house.

This called out for massive landscaping and a new fence to cover up the rusty old chain link one. That muddy area is now covered with sod. (Oh yeah, we also painted the neighbor's tool shed to cover up the graffiti and replaced the broken windows with plywood.)

Still in the back yard was a vegetable garden. Because the house had been unoccupied for a few months before we bought it, no one had tended to the garden and, well, nature did what it does.

This needed to be dug out (we didn't want vegetables and herbs) followed by several rounds of pruning and planting before we got it to this more manageable state.

Back behind the garage was a rusty old shed filled with junk and surrounded by several years' worth of firewood.

In its place we have a new install-in-a-day shed and some landscaping to tidy the place up.

Finally, we overhauled our garage. A previous owner had used it as a workroom and installed plenty of lighting, outlets, a table, and shelving along one side.

Unfortunately, the walls reeked of something and had to go, so we replaced it all with drywall and still have a terrific workroom.

The garage itself was a little lacking in pizazz.

So we'll close this day's entries with our painted and decorated garage.

Here's to the next thousand days of projects!