Hay ... That's Grass Growing!

Spotty. Boring. Barren. Weeds that passed for imitation grass. Like a teenager with acne, it was time for our front yard to get a makeover. After missing out on serious landscaping over the past couple of years, we spent the past week making some big changes in our front yard and boy was it therapeutic!

It started with a decorative split rail fence along the creek (aka "ditch") and moved from there. After having helped Heidi Fletcher thin out some of their raspberries, 50 or so plants found their way to our yard. Like a potter with clay, Cody shaped and sculpted the slope in the front yard to a decorative terrace with a future bench area for sunset and thunderstorm observations. Tyson transported the rock from the Lowe's delivered palette over to the work area - half by wheelbarrow, half by skateboard.

It took every night after work, a full day of Spring Break labor on Friday and a final exhausting day on Saturday to complete the project. 16 pictures have been posted to our family photo album (click here) and we'll post some more later this summer when the new grass comes in. Now we await the arrival of our trees, bushes, shrubs, vegetables and seeds from the Kansas Forest Service, Gurney's and the Arbor Day Foundation. Hay! And that yellow stuff you see isn't grass spun from gold, it's the hay covering the seed.