also just to paint the full picture here:
My backyard isn't ALL bad. This lovely sort of natural fence of foliage and **** goes down into a little creek. Helps make the yard feel a lot more private which I value personally. During the spring/summer our yard gets all sorts of birds and bunnies and frogs and ****. Only makes the winter more depressing...there's ****ing nothing out there except cold and wind during this season.