Yesterday I started my morning delivering a bunch of stuff to my daughters new home. I then helped future SIL with another plumbing issue and I promptly left. Stopped at Home Depot and bought 10 bags of seed starting top soil @ $7 a bag. The good stuff is in thick plastic bags and is very consistent and contains fertilizer. Im not sure and frankly have my doubts about what is in the cheap stuff.
Back story: the triple screened top soil we used to cover the circle where the pool once stood didn’t exactly yield a bumper crop of grass. It was quite spotty. I only noticed how bad it was when I used a few leftover bags of the $7 stuff where he pine trees once stood. That area came up thick and lush as can be.
So I spent my afternoon over-seeding: filling the mini canyons the rain had formed with left over triple screen topsoil and then spreading the ten bags, tilling the soil and spreading seed. Even with all the rain we’ve had the ground there is hard so Ill have to put the sprinkler on it. The rest of the lawn is a lush, thick green oasis. It was a couple hours work and by the end I was feeling it. I managed to get it all done and I looked up to see several vultures circling. Thats when I knew it was time to stop.
The nasty next door neighbor have made it clear they are angry with me. Ill just say angry isnt a good way to go through life. The ugly pine trees had to go but they provided a nice privacy screen. It allowed for a new full sun garden that is doing awesome. I ordered on-line, received and planted a row ten of the “Rose of Sharon” First to delineate the property line and at some point in the future provide some privacy. I’m sure the neighbors aren’t happy with the big pile of retaining wall bricks that are in woods. Eventually I will make use of them elsewhere.
This morning I can leisurely drink my coffee not having to worry that I’d interfere with DD morning routine. She’s out. I’d say that was cause for celebration.. The Mrs. on the other hand would probably get teary eyed If I brought it up. I’d say circle of life...yada yada...
Cool hands deer mangled car is supposed to be finished tomorrow. I will be happy when he is no longer sharing our cars.
Stuff is getting done that I never had time for before.. Retirees can have well groomed lawns. I dont have to rush home to mow the lawn.. it is all too awesome.
Back story: the triple screened top soil we used to cover the circle where the pool once stood didn’t exactly yield a bumper crop of grass. It was quite spotty. I only noticed how bad it was when I used a few leftover bags of the $7 stuff where he pine trees once stood. That area came up thick and lush as can be.
So I spent my afternoon over-seeding: filling the mini canyons the rain had formed with left over triple screen topsoil and then spreading the ten bags, tilling the soil and spreading seed. Even with all the rain we’ve had the ground there is hard so Ill have to put the sprinkler on it. The rest of the lawn is a lush, thick green oasis. It was a couple hours work and by the end I was feeling it. I managed to get it all done and I looked up to see several vultures circling. Thats when I knew it was time to stop.
The nasty next door neighbor have made it clear they are angry with me. Ill just say angry isnt a good way to go through life. The ugly pine trees had to go but they provided a nice privacy screen. It allowed for a new full sun garden that is doing awesome. I ordered on-line, received and planted a row ten of the “Rose of Sharon” First to delineate the property line and at some point in the future provide some privacy. I’m sure the neighbors aren’t happy with the big pile of retaining wall bricks that are in woods. Eventually I will make use of them elsewhere.
This morning I can leisurely drink my coffee not having to worry that I’d interfere with DD morning routine. She’s out. I’d say that was cause for celebration.. The Mrs. on the other hand would probably get teary eyed If I brought it up. I’d say circle of life...yada yada...
Cool hands deer mangled car is supposed to be finished tomorrow. I will be happy when he is no longer sharing our cars.
Stuff is getting done that I never had time for before.. Retirees can have well groomed lawns. I dont have to rush home to mow the lawn.. it is all too awesome.
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Too many things to do and too little time even in ER. 
