The Wife was planning out what to do for landscaping...she thought, "Ooooo, a garden of planters!" She planted herbs in the pots and planters, she fastened a small fence around the area, dreaming of a trellis for the opening (someday). Then the chickens came....and the chickens loved the pots to sit on and nibble herb dinners and the planters to poop in. The children saw the fence and they used it as hurdles in games of tag and the "jail" in kick-the-can.
New plan...those tiger-lilies look nice around all the trees, perhaps they aren't so haphazard as she thought they were. We could expand the tiger-lilies, get some other colors (besides orange) and feel very "old lady"-like. Then the goats came...and the goats thought the tiger-lilies were candy, and they ate and ate and ate them to the ground. Well, scratch that one.
New plan...the Wife thought,"The children jump and run through fences, the goats eat plants, the chickens poop on everything and nibble the herbs...what can I plant that will be safe and look nice?" And then she found the joys of a yard-full of slides and swings, a climbing wall and ladders, bikes, scooters and roller blades. Yep, one full acre of playground. That's how we're landscaping in 2016.
There will be a day when the yard will be landscaped and look like no one lives here, but that will be when our family doesn't live here at all. For while we are here, when you drive past, please enjoy our landscaping.
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