My new house is full of surprises, even after a year of living here I will find something new. This place was built by the original owner, who had some crazy ideas about interior design, and even crazier ones about the landscaping. For example, in our central living area, with the connected living room and dining room, there are four different ceiling fans. The fans are so close together the tips of the blades almost touch. Who would put in so many fans in one room? As for the yard, that has been a slowly unfolding nightmare. There are bricks buried around the foundation of the house, just loose bricks that serve no purpose. There are a series of rebar rods that are buried in various places around the yard, just straight up and down. Why on earth he plunged 6 foot lengths of rebar rods all over his yard is a mystery to me. I only found out about it recently while mowing the yard, and the lawnmower blade clipped a small, exposed end of a rebar rod. If you don’t know how strong rebar rods are, I can tell you they are strong enough to destroy a $500 lawnmower in a single instant. I got a metal detector and some little flags to mark the spots, and started hunting for all the hidden pieces of rebar rods buried in the earth. There were over a hundred of them, and I have to ask – do you have any idea why anyone would bury rebar rods in the ground like this?