Pics O' The Week #23: The Weekend Project

So today's pictures are both a record of what I've been working on this weekend, and an explanation of why I don't have something more interesting to show ya.

We've been in this house a little over a year, and the lawn has always been a bit of a challenge. It wasn't in great shape when we moved in, and the dry winter combined with our property manager's decision to have our sprinklers shut off the second week of September last fall meant that most of the grass didn't survive the winter. So, as a bit of an experiment I'm trying to reseed part of the yard.

It may not look like much, but this is the result of four trips to Lowe's (and there goes my time to get out and take pics of something that's not the yard), one big bag of seed, an hour with a rake to clear off the dead stuff, and seven bags of cow manure. Well, ok, what you see here is only six bags of manure, I used a bag on the patch in the front yard.

It's kind of hard to tell scale here, but trust me, this is not a particularly small area.

Ah, yes, and the fencing...as long as there's nothing terribly interesting on the other side of the fence, it should be adequate to keep the dogs off of the new grass. However, should there be a bunny on that side of the yard....well....stay tuned for pics of Sera tearing around the yard dragging 40 feet of plastic netting!