yard work

We have 3 trees in our front yard and they all needed to be trimmed, big time. One is a juniper that was really tall and mostly dead on top. There is also a lemon and orange that had many dead branches. After Chris did the lawn, the yard looked good, but not as good as it could due to all the dead tree parts. Yesterday, he worked his butt off. He cut the juniper down to about 1/3 of its size. We are trying to get it to become a bush, instead of a tree. He also cut the dead parts off the citrus. They look so much better!He also did something that we were wanting to do for over a year. He took down the stupid fence on the porch. In between each of the posts was a wrought iron fence piece. We never liked having it. It made the porch seem small. He finally took it down. He now needs to sand and re-paint to posts and clean up the planter, but it is an instant improvement. Now, in the spring, the planter will become my new container garden. I can't wait to fill it up with flowers and plants, now that I can actually get to it. All that's left in the front, is fixing the wrought iron fence around the yard. It has cheesy medallions (you can see one in the first picture) and missing pieces. We plan on getting rid of all the swirls and medallions and grinding the posts down to even levels and adding new finials.
I am so happy with it. He does all the hard work and I get to enjoy it.