Backyard Disgrace
This afternoon was beautiful. The sky was clear, the birds were chirping, and it was 70 degrees. It is the perfect time to enjoy the outdoors. I was alone for dinner, so I had decided to bbq some chicken breasts to soak up what was left of the day. After I had placed the chicken breasts onto the bbq, I stood around to absorb the environment. It gave me time to look around, and to think about the condition of our backyard. Since we moved in during the spring of 1999, we have not had a good backyard. Our backyard had remained to be an area for storing what I consider junk (because it has laid there with no purpose of usage in over a year(s)), home to our dog named Rice (Dalmatian that died within a year after moving to this house), a storage shed, fruit trees, a vegetable/herb garden, and a bunch of dirt. The plan was never to keep the backyard the way it is today when we moved in. Back when we moved in, the plan was to remove the current patio and sidewalk th