Yesterday Maria and I were trying to figure out how we wanted to spend our evening when I got a call from John who said a co-worker had grossly miscalculated his square footage when doing his yard and had about 700 sqft of sod left over! Quentin and I drove over and loaded the sod in his and my trucks and brought it home. Todd came and helped me clear the weeds, rocks, and debris. We started to lay sod about 8:30 pm and worked until I threw the extension cord in a puddle of water shorting out the outlet that powered our flood lights.
The puddle was from our neighbors yard that went crazy. Before going to bed I went to the house next door and turned off their water (take that!) The house is actually vacant so I don't think it is too big of a deal. The next day we went out to finish and found even more water - so much that we could no longer get out the gate into the front yard! I talked to my neighbor on the other side and told him the situation. He agreed to let us take the sod into his backyard and throw it over the wall into our backyard! It was a ton of extra work but kept us from loosing a ton of free sod!
With a little help today we finished and now have a grassy backyard! We just can't step on it for a month or so.
I have more pictures to come of Davis playing in the mud and on the grass. Have to wait til I get a mouse for the other computer though.
5 comments:
I want Dadis PICS!
Nice I can't wait to have BBQs back there! Yeah me to I want dadis Pics.
Wow! how lucky to get a free lawn. It is to bad you had all that extra work but I'll bet it was worth it. The lawn will be great for the kids.
Boy, what a lot of work but it will be worth the effort. Life seems to have a lot of frustrations! Glad you have a lawn. Love you.
Very cool! That will be so much fun for you guys!
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