Keeping a promise

Well, I told you we have been doing a little work around the house and that I would blog about it. We finally tackled a little work outside (we're on sabbatical from inside work). We wanted a yard for the kids to play in and this house had a good sized yard for NY. Unfortunately it looked like a jungle or rainforest when we moved in. With plenty to do to the house itself we have turned a blind eye to the outside for the past two years. OK, last year we ripped out about 8 very large "wild" trees, but that is where it ended. With baby 3 due any day I knew that we needed to get a yard for the big kids ASAP. We didn't do any landscaping in the back this year, but we did manage to rip out the jungle and seed the back lawn! Here are the pics of the process...

What the yard looked like before we began:





Day One: The bulldozer moves in and makes short work of the debris, weeds, and sucker trees in the way. After they cleared it out they carted in 30 yards of new topsoil and planted the seed. The waiting began....




Just over a week later the seeds sprouted and we could see what would soon be our lawn. It was amazing that we didn't get any weeds...we figured they would show up soon.




These last pics were a little over 2 weeks after they planted the grass. It looks amazing! Still no weeds (cross your fingers).



It is even thicker and greener now and tomorrow we are going to give it it's first "haircut". We have never seen seed come in so thick and lush. It really is almost like sod. We still have no weeds and when the kids are out of school at the end of June we will have a great back lawn to play on. Next year we may tackle the actual "landscaping", but for now we are just happy to have real grass. Yay!