Going Upscale

No doubt about it--our area is gentrifying itself.  Yeah, the boondocks are sprucing up.  The people at the end of the street added a front patio last year, and now they've got a work crew out there laying a U-shaped drive across their front lawn, adding extra parking spaces, and pouring a graceful concrete walk to the new front door of their house which opens into the new addition they added two years ago.  Before that, they turned their back yard into a garden of Eden.

And the neighbors halfway between the end of the street and us are leveling their driveway and adding a concrete lip.  And across the street, a new house is going up, and it looks sorta GRAND.

Husband and Fio have done their bit by having the cedars on their front acre removed two-thirds of the way toward the street and also hiring handyman McHugh to clean out the western planting bed, but more work is going to have to wait till they've paid off the groom's share of Son's wedding.