Sigh~* I guess they can't all be winners

Well, in true Hyperbole and a Half fashion, we went from a tornado of productive awesome to the empty plains of lazy-sofa-land pretty quick. We did NOTHING this weekend, and i do mean nothing. We sat on the couch, and ate things. Ta-da! Weekend.

In other news, work is busy, school is back, and life is speeding by like a  freight train. We are going to be mailing in our taxes this week. And when we get our nice refund we are going to use it on one of these bad boys:

That is a 4' tall classic white privacy fence. In vinyl for durability and ease of maintenance. I'm so excited because this is really going to improve our backyard. We will be putting a gate on the side that doesn't have one, and I'd like to put one in the back wall as well so we can get to the field back there. I don't know though, because the gates are so expensive!

Before the fence goes in, about 6 trees need to come out. The previous owner (Frank, I'm looking at you here) planted a bunch of pine trees on the back fence, and I do mean ON the back fence. They are soooo close that the branches are cut off up to about 4 feet, so they don't even look nice. Also we have 2 big square junipers that are off center. And I hate junipers. So that's gotta happen first, probably in March or early April, and we'll pull the old fence at the same time. So as soon as it's advisable we can install the new fence!

We're currently trying to decide how to remove these items. Do we pay someone to do it like the trees that were on the front of the house? Or do we do it and rent a chipper? Do we do it and haul them to some sort of compost place? Lots of options that are complicated by the fact that we can't get any big equipment back there. Oh decisions! When will you learn to make yourselves?

Whatever we do, it's going to look way better than the current fence:

Imagine that the trees are all dead and there's a foot of slushy snow everywhere...