Tim is not a roses and candy guy, BUT....

Tim is a pretty great guy!!!! As the title suggests, he is NOT a flower and candy guy, but he did something that showed me how much he loved me and how well he knows me. I'm not really a roses and candy girl... so I guess we are a good match for each other. I was in Washington all

week for work, and in my absence he had our yard completely cleared!!! The picture above of one of the workers, this poor guy had to use a MACHETE to get through the overgrowth. A picture is worth a thousand words, check out the before and after!!!!!

POOL AREA, BACK OF THE POOL BEFORE

BACK OF THE POOL AREA, TREES TRIMMED AFTER: you can actually see daylight. The guys who trimmed the trees told us it's important to keep these trees trimmed because there are squirrel nests in there, and snakes will slither up the trees to get the baby squirrels, and then you can have a snake land on your head from above.... and guess what? They found baby squirrels in these trees... they didn't say if there were also snakes, but I'm going to pretend the answer to that was NO. Baby squirrels, sorry to say are missing or dead as of today.

This is a snake-free zone baby!!!!!

GRAPEFRUIT TREE BEFORE: Let me just say that I was too freaked out by the potential of snakes or other slithery creatures in the very tall grass and or in the grapefruit tree itself. I could not go up to the tree to determine if it was a grapefruit or an orange. The branches were so overgrown, they hung on the ground. If you look in the "before" picture immediately below, you can actually see a man in the tree itself cutting back branches and he's almost completely swallowed by the branches.

GRAPEFRUIT TREE AFTER (Now I'm not afraid to walk up to it)

SIDE OF THE HOUSE HEDGE BEFORE :This was one of the creepier aspects of the broken house. The hedge below was about as tall as Rita is. You could barely see out of the windows because it was so tall and dense. The windows are also filthy from proximity to the hedge for so long. Obviously, we had to do something about it.

SIDE OF THE HOUSE WITH HEDGE TRIMMED, WINDOWS VISIBLE!!!! The hedge is now about waist high, and you can actually see out of the windows.

The guys who actually did all the cutting took over two very full truckloads of yard debris out of here this week. The picture below is only one of those trucks.