Before moving to NYC, I envisioned a life of sleek apartments and fancy parties... then I lived here and decided that life is best when the ceiling doesn't leak. Our garden apartment (just a fancy term for ground floor) has a leaky ceiling and a lot of street noise, but it also has access to the backyard. This sounded great when we moved in until we realized that the backyard was full of weeds, a broken cement slab, feral cats, glass shards, and garbage. After living here for a couple years, we decided to finally start cleaning it up. It took around two weeks to go from this:
to this:
Now that we have it mostly clean (mostly because the only way to get all the debris out is through our kitchen, so it will just stay piled up in the yard) we can start a garden, maybe plant some grass, get a trampoline or just enjoy the glass-free dirt.
While cleaning we did see Willie's recent kittens.
I also took a lot of breaks just to take pictures of me doing yardwork. (I never thought that I would move to Manhattan and spend my time gardening)
But most importantly, we had a great time creating a space for more adventures. Hopefully we can get a grill and start having some of those fancy parties at our sleek garden apartment.
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