When Pamela Brown bought her home in Decatur, she also took on a challenge: fixing up the house and cleaning up the over-grown yard.
“I would dig out in the yard constantly,” Brown remembers. “Everything was like two feet tall.”
Brown, who has long enjoyed landscaping, got to work clearing the yard, setting up landscaped garden beds and building a water garden. She also found another challenge: a large tree in her front yard was rotten and needed to be cut down.
“I thought, ‘What can I do with that?’ because I didn’t want a big stump, and I didn’t want to pay for something to be ground out of my yard,” Brown said. “I just watched a video and did it. I’m good at a chainsaw.”
Brown carved the tree’s large stump into a house to fit her garden gnomes, complete with a roof, stairs, window, patio and miniature garden.
“I’ve seen people drive by and look,” Brown said. “One person did stop. I knew him from a job I used to work at. He was impressed.’
