To continue, here are pictures of what the outside looked like the day we closed:

nice of them to leave us their garbage

and their mulch

one side of the yard is a Christmas tree graveyard

some once-beautiful-but-now-overgrown landscaping

you can just imagine that at one point this was really cool

look closely – apparently you can attract more birds to your bird feeder with a… sock?

hmm… this doesn’t seem too stable for a deck

view from behind the pond

junk in the woods

cap

more junk in the woods

view from the back of the yard

doesn’t every country home come equipped with a rotting deer carcass in a barrel?

this pot was the victim of target practice

snowboarding anyone?

behind the shed

inside the garage

So that last picture requires a bit of a back story. When we did our final walk through hours before closing, we found out these two boats were there. The real estate agent got on the phone with the owner, who had no idea. Apparently one of the renter’s friends was storing them there. We were promised they’d be gone, but when we went back after the house was officially ours, they were still there! We had to go out of town the next day too, so we felt stuck. We ended up changing the locks and putting a sign on the door to contact us. A few days later the guys came and picked them up… So for a little while, these boats were kind of ours! We wish…