{Yard Work}

This is one project that I have left for the boys.  As much as I want to get down and dirty, I have been keeping myself busy inside with more crafty projects.  We decided that since we'd like to put in a porch in the back yard, that we would just do the front yard for now.

So to start off, we really did not have much of anything in our front yard.  What should have been a lawn, was just dirt.  We have a few large trees and this crazy, overgrown viney bush around our trees.  We could have left it, but it was filled with old leaves and who knows what was actually growing in there. One Sunday afternoon, the boys decided to knock the bush out.  We had a trimmer and we rented a tiller for the day.  

  As you can see the bush was taking over a good portion of our yard and Scotty was enjoying cutting it up.  D and Dad got the fun job of shoveling it into bags.

It was amazing to see how much larger the yard looked with out this crazy bush taking it over. 

After tilling up the yard, D and Scotty went around and tried their best to level out the high and low spots.  It was definitely a task since the yard had not been taken care of, ever.  

Scotty used sticks to show where these high and low spots were.

Our yard is pretty much completely in the shade from our big trees.  We decided it would be best to seed with a fescue shade mix.  This is the first time I've ever planted with seed, so I was not sure how it would come in. 

This is kind of a blurry picture of Scotty, but he is laying the first seeds down! 

Yay for seed!  Can you tell I was excited to finally have a start to the yard.

Now it was a waiting and watering game.  We needed to make sure it got plenty of water, so every night Scotty or D would go out and water the yard with the hose.  It actually rained quite a bit that first week so that helped a lot.  Well, I guess it actually hurt the lawn some too.  It poured one day, and we actually had to put a damn system in since our drainage is so horrible.  Scotty ran out and put a few 2x4s down to make the rain just go down the driveway instead of taking all the loose lawn dirt with it.  About a week later this is what the lawn was looking like.  

 Some green is starting to show

 It is a little spotty, but growing pretty well. 

Because it was so spotty, we decided to lay down another round of seed.  We are still waiting for that to come in.  We aren't sure if it is just taking a little longer or if the heat killed it.  We'll see.  Nevertheless, I am very excited to even see just a little green come in.  I love that just a little color out there makes a world of difference!  One of these days I'll really start on my 'green' thumb and put in a garden! :o)

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