Windemere

        While most people who get time off for national holidays take some time off and rest and relax or go to the beach or visit friends etc I stay home and work on my house.

        After months and months of settling and compacting, the trench that is my front yard had finally gotten to the point that there was at least some chance of turning the great big pile of dirt back into a lawn.

        Naturally I waited until the hottest part of the afternoon to go outside and do physically demanding labor in the hot sun to finish leveling out the front yard and raking it smooth.

        Pictures of the progress so far are here. More to come as we check on the progress of the grass growing.

        I did also get a some time to do somehting other than working on the house and headed down to DC for fireworks on the mall.

       That's right folks the next few posts are likely to be as exciting as watching grass grow. Stay Tuned!

Update 7/9: Grass is growing!

        With a little help from mother nature in the form of one of the cooler and wetter summer's in recent memory the new grass has taken quite a strong hold in the front yard.

        This weekend it looked like the new grass had finally reached the point where it was ready for a little trimming. It is so nice to look out the door and see a field of mostly green rather than just a big pile of dirt. A little overseeding and some more watering this weekend. Along with the help of another series of summer storms this weekend, should get everything to fill in nicely over the next few weeks.

        Since this is the first weekend in a long time that I actually haven't had some sort of work or plans or other other jam packed social activities I actually took some time and did some other yard work in the back. Trimmed up some bushes and overseeded and fertilized the back yard a bit to fill in some of the bare spots in the grass back there.

        A couple of bags of mulch and a few minutes of weeding and some other little outdoor maintenance items made for a very fulfilling afternoon of putting in a little bit of effort and finally feeling like there was a little bit of a payback. Things are moving towards looking less like and abandoned sand lot and more like a yard.