The awning thing is now half gone. The top appears to be cemented into the wall so we'll wait to remove the rest until the brick fixin' guy comes. At least the rusty metal sides are off.
The sun blocking plastic and rusty metal thing turned out to be cemented in. We removed the plastic panels but will have to return with a metal cutting grinder thing to get rid of the rest of it. Ditto for the fence posts that surround the rest of the patio. Why is the ugly so hard to remove!?!
We started de-weeding the strawberry patch that surrounds the patio and realized that there are strawberries is only a couple of places and only weeds in the rest. We're going to plant some more strawberries and some herbs in there when we're ready. .
Ven was very helpful on Saturday and spend most of his time shortening sticks and running around the yard with clods of dirt in his mouth and acting like a crazy fool.
This was a particularly good clod.
We started raking the moss out of the lawn and discovered that there is only about 10% living grass in our lawn. Our plan will be to try to revive what is already there and if that doesn't work we will replant in the fall. .
Ven had to check each pile of moss and dead grass to make sure nothing exciting got trapped in the middle. What a helpful boy.
The apple tree on the patio got a pretty extreme haircut. At some point this tree was trained to lay flat against the wall but a decade or so of neglect has resulted in most of the new growth being directed outwards at eye level or upwards into the gutter. 
I gave no quarter and removed everything that was too long or wasn't going in the right direction. That left exactly six little branches. If the tree doesn't bounce back this year then we'll put something else there next year. There's another really nice big apple tree in the corner of the yard so we won't be short of apples in the mean time. I really like fruit trees that are trained flat like this so I hope Mr. Tree is able to bounce back.
The apple tree on the patio got a pretty extreme haircut. At some point this tree was trained to lay flat against the wall but a decade or so of neglect has resulted in most of the new growth being directed outwards at eye level or upwards into the gutter. 
I gave no quarter and removed everything that was too long or wasn't going in the right direction. That left exactly six little branches. If the tree doesn't bounce back this year then we'll put something else there next year. There's another really nice big apple tree in the corner of the yard so we won't be short of apples in the mean time. I really like fruit trees that are trained flat like this so I hope Mr. Tree is able to bounce back. .
All in all the day was really satisfying. We didn't do anything that couldn't wait but it was nice to spend the day outside and be close to our new house even if we couldn't go in yet.
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