Aerial photographs show just how many people visited central Fresno when Extreme Makeover: Home Edition came to rebuild the Riojas house. Thousands! And they all left behind footprints in surrounding neighbor's yards.
"Before it started I had green green grass and then it became a mud hole," exclaimed Dale Zanovich.
Now that the build is complete Zanovich and 10 of his neighbor's lawns are being re-landscaped.
This team is edging, plowing and fertilizing the lawn. They are also fixing broken sprinkler heads like this one in dean Pugh's yard.
"There's a lot of heads missing so it's just the water running out," said Pugh.
Deborah Saffell is working with residents to make sure all the lawns are returned to their original condition.
"The lawns aren't as bad as i expected with as many spectators that stood there all day long," said Saffell.
Neighbors said they are not upset by this small inconvenience especially when they get to look at the work this landscaping crew did across the street for the new Riojas house.
"If this is all I have to give up for her to have a nice home more than happy to do it," said Pugh.
"I mean I'd like to have one like she's got over there but I guess it's too much to ask for," laughed Zanovich.
One of the big project donors paid to have this landscape team fix up these lawns. They will be here till the end of the week. And with a little TLC afterwards by homeowners ... these lawns should be back to normal by Spring.
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