I spent the good part of 2006-2009 doing home improvement projects and landscaping projects.  Some of my jobs consisted of the following:

• Dug out a small hill in the backyard
• Cut down and removed over 15 trees and bushes from the backyard
• Leveled the entire backyard and then "planted" grass
• Planted over 15 plants and various bushes in the backyard
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We had a plan... but plans are hard to follow when things don't go as you'd like them to. And then it just gets to a point where you have so many things torn apart and tools and other crap everywhere that it just seems impossible to get anywhere because everything is in your way ( Read more... )