I Came, I Saw, I Pulled Weeds

Over the past couple of days, I have been working in the yard pulling weeds.  One of my least favorite things to do, along with cleaning bathrooms and litter boxes. Nonetheless, a necessary evil.

I haven't pulled weeds since the beginning of the summer, and they were defintiely taking a firm hold of the bed in the middle of our yard, as you can see from the photos below (the furniture from the picture on the right is from our front porch which is undergoing a renovation).

Seven trashbags later, this is what it looks like.

Big difference!  Unfortunately, I think crabgrass is killing our lawn.  There is a wide swatch of dead grass/stuff going across the lawn.