The Big Spring Territory Cleanup

Few days ago I announced start for Season 2 of our home remodeling adventures. We have some really big plans to achieve this year - like getting a water supply and constructing from scratch few walls. Also a bathroom is planned to be finished until end of this Summer.

But our home renovation tasks starts with outdoor territory. More precise with the big Spring cleanup. We had to clean area not only from old leaves and branches, but also from plastic bottles, cans and even TV picture tubes.

Let me introduce - The Big Spring Cleanup of 2016

Dump with old TV picture tubes, plastic bottles and cans

Dump with old TV picture tubes, plastic bottles and cans

We got this together with house already last year. Previous owner (RIP) seems have collected TV picture tubes and sold nonferrous metal parts from them. I don't have other explanation why there can be so many of them at one place.

Sacks of dump

Sacks of dump

Today we collected 13 sacks of dump - 9 from TV dump, 4 old leaves and branches from garden. It will ask another 25 sacks to complete our Big Spring Cleanup.

The Big Spring Cleanup in the garden

The Big Spring Cleanup in the garden

Old leaves and branches, as well few cans and bottles. We didn't made cleanup here last year, so it's vital to perform cleanup here. Afterall I hope to see lovely landscaped territory here - it consist from apple orchard and cherry trees.

First flowerbed

First flowerbed

Flowers are essential for beautiful landscape surrounding house.

The Bottom Line

I believe landscaped territory makes 50% of home value. 

 

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