…take down the pine trees, fix the front lawn, and plant those friggin' azaleas I've been bugging DH about for two years.
__________________ The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
-- H. L. Mencken
I would get some good non-chemical weed killer and kill every weed in my lawn, and then
add a few slate rock borders around some flower gardens to hide the well pump thing sticking out of the ground and the septic marker, other than that I am very fortunate the lady how had the house built put perennials all over the place!