Here are a few additional pictures.  I loved all of the flowers but it was difficult to maintain and since i'm not retired my time is limited.  I won't mention that I don't have a green thumb either. 

You can see the greenhouse in the backyard - one of my favorite things about this place.  I thought it might help me practice growing plants, we'll see...

Its been too long since my last post but on the bright side I found the pictures of our ugly house.

I forgot how far we’ve come in the past couple of years.   The amount of work, inside and out, that needed to be done was sometimes overwhelming – secretly I didn’t think we would ever make enough progress as we have.  There were so many things to mow and weed eat around that it took us two days each time we had to mow so our first projects were to remove as many obstacles as possible.  You can see from the pictures that there were fences, pavers, garden décor, bushes, trees to clean around and what you can’t see is the bathtub next to the house used as a home for frogs (yes, I’m serious, somebody actually thought that was a good idea) and a 10 x 10 canvas pavilion covering the koi pond.  The front walkway was some type of red stone that had long since broken into a million pieces and was basically being taken over by weeds/grass.  Seriously, there was no need for me to go to the gym, all I had to do was spend an hour each day outside moving, digging or doing some other chore.  And I did...