Saturday, November 03, 2007

Don't Care How, I Want It Now

As I mentioned before, I've been working on our yard for a while now. Trenching in particular took much longer than I expected. With winter (the temperatures are below 90 now) and (more importantly) a bit of mental fatigue setting in, I decided to cave and put in sod instead of seed. At about 7 last night two palettes were dropped off at my house, and by 10:30, we had a lawn.

I'm pretty skeptical of those commercials for the toasted sandwiches that you supposedly cook in the microwave, but I'm now a believer in instant grass. We'll see how it does in the long run, but it's good to finally see some fruit from my labor.





Pete the turtle was not around to see it, though (which was good, because I needed my wheelbarrow back). No, he didn't die despite having to rely on me for care - someone (a neighbor about 7 houses down) called & claimed him. I'm not sure how he got out, but I wasn't too sad about not having to figure out what to do with him if no one had called.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

The grass looks great! So happy that you have grass and even happier for you that you're done digging the trenches.
kris

LKC said...

Looks great! Congrats.

Jay S said...

Sod is the best!!! Looks good. Again it is one of those "Only in Arizona" things where you can lay sod in November. It is amazing to watch the place go from dirt to green like that.

Paul Genesse said...

Nice yard and I like your recent blog posts. Cute kid.

Paul G.