an open house: back yard

kitchen | family room | laundry/hall | back bath & bedroom | front hall & bath | workroom | living room

Here's what the back of the house looks like -- that laundryroom door to the right has its own steps, which the brick pile is getting in the way of.

Also note TV antenna restoration/fine-tuning, in progress. We've jumped to New Year's day with these pictures (actually, we did with the Christmas tree one); I took these backyard pics in between running inside to check how the latest adjustment made the TV look, now.

You may notice the blown-down trellis both here and in the next shot.

Said trellis used to run across the top and down the sides of the carport (the center section with the busted-out plastic windows, which by the way have been broken out for a long time; the storm did not do that). The little garage to the left side is the original one, although it hasn't hosted a car since I'm not sure when. The washing machines used to live in there, before they were moved to the house when my grandma started getting more fragile. Grandpa only ever parked his car in the carport, within my memory.

That ripped-up gap in the bricks is from when we got a new water main pipe, recently. Our current imaginings replace the bricks with a lawn, which would sort of return it to the way I knew it as a child (except without a large elm tree in the middle of it, with a swing).

Patio terrace. I like it. Needs new furniture though, and a bit of jungle-clearing, IMHO.

The sideyard off the patio. This area of fence is falling down worse than average.

The garden area. This is getting a bit jungly too, in its own way. I'd love to adjust this into some kind of Mediterranean-ish gravelly-walk-among-garden-plots, with maybe a small fountain against the wall. These are relatively long-term imaginings, of course. Also, we'd need to do something about the neighbor's jungle encroaching from the other side.

The other sideyard. The TV antenna landed just inside the gate, despite the fact that its anchor is much closer to this near corner of the house than that far one.