Yard Work

Although we love the idea of owning a yard, it's a lot of work. Fortunately in Colorado the yard is dormant for most of the late fall, winter, and very early spring. Well, we're starting to see signs of spring and growth on the yard, so we're going to have to get back out there again.

Here's the bad thing. Our neighbor is pretty yard crazy. He's unemployed and works on his yard for at least 2 hours each day (that's in fall and winter with no snow) and probably 4 hours in summer. Which means that his yard is magazine beautiful and that our yard looks like crap comparatively. Although our yard is in pretty decent shape, it will never look anything like his. I should take a picture of his yard, to show what we're up against.

Inspired by their commercials and feeling a little yard competitive, we just got back from the Home Depot armed with fertilizer, bulbs, geraniums, and a shovel. We're going to see what we can do. Whit and I are pretty sure that our neighbors secretly laugh at us because we truly don't know what we're doing. We feel a little silly asking our beautiful yard neighbor the basics, so we don't. That means that we end up doing a lot of guessing. It's all part of our learning process!

Whit has a solution for all unknown sprouts in the yard...don't know what it is-mow it down!