Backyard Bleakness

We have dogs. Because of that, improving the backyard gets put on the back burner. It really is a lovely space...well, potentially lovely space...but for the moment it is a barren puppy play yard. I'm okay with barren but I'm not okay with ugly. Right now the grass and fences are ugly.

The grass is full of pot holes, weeds and dead brown scruff -- which is probably how it will stay as long as we have dogs running side to side at full speed, chasing each other in circles and of course using it as the inevitable potty-place.

The fence boards are cracked, scratched, peeling and falling off. Fence posts are rotted and broken. Support boards are definitely not supporting.

We share our 28-year old fence line with 4 neighbors. Everyone is interested in replacing the rotting fences. We even have multiple bids to choose from. So tell me, why aren't they replaced? The holdup is due to one neighbor that needs to get an additional bid for replacing the fences that belong to him. We keep asking how that project is going. "Oh ya, I'll get right on that!" is what we hear.

Papa has done multiple repairs to the fence we share with this neighbor (let's call him Lazy Butt). The last time the fence we share with Lazy Butt broke, Papa left it alone hoping this would encourage some forward motion. But alas, weeks later the fence is still broken and Lazy Butt is still "going to get right on it".

Leaping Looney Lenny loves to chase the squirrels that run along this fence. I am thinking it will take one, maybe two more leaps at the fence to knock it into Lazy Butt's backyard. Maybe when Lenny and Dakota are at their backdoor looking for a handout, forward motion will occur :)