Last week, while waiting for Nilesh to drive back to New Jersey from North Carolina I got antsy and decided to go for a bike ride. I keep my bike in the back yard. Usually, I go there and leave when its dark, so I never really had a good look at the state of the back yard. Let me show it to you.

And really, both of these pictures are bad examples, because I only thought to take "before" pictures about two hours into my five and a half hour cleaning ordeal. So, although the pictures look bad... its not nearly as bad as it had been before I actually started attacking the yard.

But... Through intermittant rain sprinkles, two nalgene bottles of water, eight giant black plastic bags of debris... the yard finally looked like this. Gather and surmise...

Not only is it not a dirt/grass yard, but a slate patio, but it actually looks friendly and like a place you can hang out, eh? Maybe once I get out of tech and previews for Hamlet, I'll have a little bbq or some other type of social gathering at my house incorporating my new and lovely back yard patio space. whee!