Front Yard Patch Conquered...Again!

This weekend's big Mars work was conquering the front yard patch...again. It's shocking how quickly it gets out of hand. I forgot to get a 'before' photo, but this is more or less what it looked like:

After 3 hard hours, Adrienne had it cleaned up entirely:

The view from the front steps, highlighting mysterious bricks

She filled the 32 gallon compost bin, plus 4 paper grocery bags full of grass, vining stuff, and giant (five-six feet tall) Italian parsley that had gone to seed.

The view from the front

A close up, showing the bumper sticker I put in the window: My dog graduated with honors from Pawsitive Tails!

Afterwards, we took one of the Parsley Monsters over to Jon's, just to show off. Here's Adrienne, showing how tall it was before she lopped the top off:

It almost won...

Jon admired the Parsley Monster so much, that he put it in a vase in his living room:

I hope it doesn't wait until the middle of the night & steal his stereo.