Our backyard (and frontyard) is in a state of disarray. Remember this? 3 years ago? Yea, well it’s worse. Nothing is overgrown, its just dead now. Horribly dead. Those pictures actually make the yard look gorgeous looking back at them. We tell ourselves we don’t water in order to keep our bills low, but I’m not sure how true that is anymore.

In light of recent events, I’ve felt the need to be around my family a lot. Being around them is very very comforting, like being wrapped in a warm blanket. My family just so happens to be enormous. My mom was the youngest of 7 kids and let’s just say she’s the only one that decided to stop at one child. When they come over to our place, seating solutions are always an issue. They became embarrassingly obvious last week when they came over twice and stayed into the wee hours of the morning. So I’m on a mission to fix a few issues that came up with these gatherings. Learn from your history or you’re bound to repeat it, or something like that.

Problem No. 1: Not enough lighting
We have string lights that I purchased from Target for $9 that do an amazing job of lighting up the overhang on our deck. The problem is that the overhang only covers about half of our deck. So when it gets dark, the rest of the deck is too dark to enjoy. Here are some possible solutions for that.