...oh and re: poop picking up - I try to be super conscientious about it. As a city-dweller we have enough bad-smelling stuff around!
I'm so crazy about it, that if he poops, and I can't find it (easy enough, with their tiny little poops!) I will pick up someone else's, if I come across it, as kind of a "payback" for the one I missed.
I'm a weirdo. I own it
So jealous of you guys with yards!