Backyard

After this past weekend, I'm pretty sure our neighbors are wondering who the heck lives in this house. You see, our schedules have been rather busy and when this happens, things may or may not get neglected {*cough*} Well, anyways, Ryan decided this weekend that he was tired of mowing the lawn so often and I decided that I was sick of looking at the over grown tomato plants growing in our yard and taking over the lawn. So we took matters into our own hands. Ryan lowered the mowing deck one notch and I attacked the tomato plants and {tired} to put them back into the area designated as the garden. Well.....let's just say our backyard has seen better days. It looks pretty dead right about now.

The grass may have been cut just a tad too short resulting in...

{yep, that's one good looking lawn - ha!}

...and I hacked away at the tomato plants trying to get them under control resulting in...

LOL! This picture makes me laugh. It looks terrible! Note the nice long green grass that survived the mower only because it was protected underneath the tomato plants which were ruling the backyard!

Yeah, as I've said before, we've given up on getting these plants under control. There are wire frames in there somewhere and six stakes which failed to hold this wire frames up. Anyways, when I moved all the vines back into the "garden" area, it left all the dead stuff exposed. Like I said, I'm pretty sure the neighbors are wondering about our lawn/garden care capabilities.

On a side note, I had Ryan roll the yard waste kirby back to these big 'ol plants when I was pulling weeds {there was one weed that literally was taller than me - I should have taken a before picture - and was growing to resemble a tree} and ripping off some of the tomato vines {accidentally}. Ryan and I don't really eat tomatoes {which is likely another reason why these got out of control}. So as I was cleaning up these plants, I was pulling rotten tomatoes off the vine and tossing them in the kirby. Well....one of my tosses ended up coming up short and the tomatoe splattered ALL over the lid of the kirby. I laughed. Ryan looked at me and said "Really Ashley?!? You are throwing rotten tomatoes?!?" {hehehe} and then he ran inside to grabbed a bucket of water to pour over the rotten tomato mess. {hehe}

And what dead backyard wouldn't be complete without a dead tree...

....oh yeah, we've got one of those too. At least the swing set looks nice!

~Ashley