With the encouragement of friends and help from some people on TaskRabbit, I’m getting the backyard to be more functional.  I’m still tossing around ideas and not complete with where I want it to be, but to show the progress and some of the ideas I am working on, I thought I’d document the progress here.  I’m not completely happy with the grass “rugs,” but they were inexpensive and may function for a while to increase the usefulness of the backyard.  I have a potting bench I have to put together and I’m going to get my gazebo reinforced and a hot tub cover valet installed.