About a year after we bought this house, we made work of building a big deck off the back door. I enlisted a lot of help from a handyman at work to build the foundation and framework, and then Papa and I finished off the surface. It was a lot bigger than the little rotted out five-foot deck that was on it when we bought the place. The rest of that summer I kept talking over with the wife how I wanted to do some landscaping around it and make it look nice. That next spring I got some things I needed, plastic edging, stakes, steppingstones, and some mulch. Over the course of the next week or so I made work of landscaping around the deck and the back of the house. The supplies ran out so I had to wait to finish it going around the side of our house. By summer's end I had it looking really good. There was one part that I didn't get around to: behind the garage. I told the wife I would get to it soon. Then 4 years passed and it still wasn't done. Oops.
Well, true to my word, I finally landscaped around the back of the garage! I was beaming with pride as I came back into the house after I was done and announced to my wife that I had finally completed the landscaping. She glanced outside and said 'yup. Looks fine, honey'. Clearly, she doesn't appreciate a five-year project finally being completed and how good that feels to have it done. Oh well, she's right. It's not really that impressive, but at least it's done!
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