The Old Boat

The yard (& I use that term loosely) in the front of the house is now multi-levels of different grades of soil, layered on top of washed aggregate and is a few inches above the neighbors driveway. So creative landscaping will come into play here in the spring. That's where I get to start having some fun. Plants, flowers, retaining walls, paths, ponds, waterfalls....my hands are just itching to get into that dirt!
But back to the present, it's nice to look out and see the backhoe gone, even if it's only for a few days. But better yet-it's thrilling to see the old red & white boat gone!It seems like it's been in every outdoor photo of the front!
When Old Charlie who sold us the property, he had stored in his garage, a 1959 fiberglass Whitehouse Runabout with fins on the back. It came with the house, even still had the motor on it & the water skis in it. Seaworthy??
Maybe, but not after sitting outside for a year in all four seasons. So off to the dump it went! The tires on the trailer went bad, had to replace them, but in order to replace them a couple of holes had to be punched into the boat to drain the water out-it was listing broadside-no way they were going to be able to change those tires without getting the water out.
So the boat's gone & the boat trailer with the new tires is now part of the front yard landscape vista!