What was the Previous Owner Doing in the Backyard

We went to the house this weekend to plan two sections of geraniums. Here is a picture of Daphne doing some of the planting.

Whenever we plant things, we tend to discover all sorts of interesting items buried in the back yard. Last week we found a milk bottle.

Today, we found a bathmat buried in the ground. I have no idea why there was a bathmat buried in the back yard. There is no evidence that there was a bathtub in the yard.

Inside the house, they have finished plastering everywhere except the game room. The game room is waiting for the beams to be milled before it can be finished. Here is the now cleaned-up living room. Next week, there will be no work inside while the plaster dries.

Meanwhile, outside the house they are starting to put the deck surface down. They can not finish until the landscape crew shapes the ground under the deck to facilitate water flow.

We were going to pick up some trees from the neighbors, but it turns out that a lot of the neighbors are away for school vacation week, so we will swap plants in a few weeks,