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Reclaiming the Back Yard

Above: holy cow, what a task it was to get this porch in shape. It's all of wood, with sliding 12-paned windows as big as garage doors. There were rats nests under the first floor, rotting joists, rotting floors. See "Porch" for more.

Below: The backyard was riddled with rat holes. We couldn't get rid of the rats until we had a brick wall built between us and the ratty neighbor's yard. It took us five years to save enough money to build that wall. Work started in 2005.
More about the yard follows.

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