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7/5: Getting It Up To Code

A Bee.


Yesterday, the Fourth of July, we rested, grilled out, and took stock of our goals and how to accomplish them (esp with the new problem of lawn care code). We spent about an hour reading the city's code online this morning. Amazing that there are so many rules about the kind of grass, the percentage of grass to cement/rocks/pavers to house to trees and decorative items.

We spent over $200 today for just grass seed, weed and feed, compost/potting soil, seeding soil, and sprinkler attachments. Doug pruned one of the dying trees, thatched the front yard, sprayed Revive, distributed weed and feed, and weeded. I worked in the backyard as I watered the garden - pulled weeds, moved empty garden boxes around, pruned the tomatoes and more. All of this activity has exacerbated my carpal tunnel and other major problems.

Tomorrow Weslee will aerate the soil (front and back) and help me pull more weeds, I'll use Roundup on more weeds, and Doug and I will do more about those dying/dead trees. IF it doesn't rain.

It got up to 98 degrees today but was down to 88 by 5 p.m. Scorching hot. Tomorrow it is supposed to rain. We'll see.

Meanwhile, as much as we hate to say this, we are choosing to leave this home for another. It is our strong intention that this house will sell quickly once we put it on the market, and that our perfect home in an unincorporated area will show up. Please please please please.

BYW... lots of tomatoes on our 19 plants! One was orange this morning and began turning red by this afternoon. One plant has a ton of little bitty tomato clusters on it - can't to figure out which plant is which! (All of my labels/markers faded in the sun so NO CLUE!)

We'll be uprooting our blackberry plants by the end of summer so we can take them with us - give them a chance to acclimate themselves in a pot before wintering inside. Then we'll work on that part of the backyard.

Guess that's it for now. We appreciate your support as we go this upheaval. Oh, and I guess we won't be the "Thornton Williams Family" at some point. Ah... will cross that bridge when we come to it. Vikki
at 7/05/2008 07:09:00 PM
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