Confessions of a Liberal Puritan

I suspect I'll be finding a lot of little things like that I need to do by hand. The owners before us only had it for a year, but they owned a landscape company and tried to do up their place as a showplace example of what they were capable of - lots of large rocks (enough that it's hard to mow the front yard), horrible spirea shrubs that I can't seem to kill to put in the rose bed I want, and just poorly proporotioned for the house and the neighbourhood.

It wasn't to my taste, and judging by the fact they got foreclosed on, it wasn't to many people's taste. On the plus side, we got a really good deal on the house. Ah, shadenfreude.