Sod

If you've been to our house, you know our back yard (and yard is a loosely used term) is not very grassy.  This is fine, except when it rains.  Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Doo (aka Joey and Barkley) will track mud throughout the house because the yard is a bit of a mud-pit.  We decided to put down some sod--we had some left over when we did the garden, and it took very well.  Thus, we got two pallets (about 900 square feet) of sod on Friday evening.  We worked until dusk on Friday and were up early on Saturday.  We finished by 1000, and we are quite pleased with the results.  We had a lot of rain this morning, so we think it's taking nicely.

We are both very sore--I can understand being a little sore, but my legs hurt, back hurts, hands hurt--I guess age is catching up with us.  The garden is coming in nicely.  I planted seeds last weekend, and already the corn, beans, peas, lettuce, okra, cucumbers, and water melon are sprouting.  First, here's some corn.

I have five rows of corn, and each row has four or five plants.  Hopefully this will result in a lot of corn this summer, barring some unforeseen attack of crows.   Next are some beans--they are really coming in quickly.

I have pictures of the other items, but it's not very exciting.  Hopefully in a couple weeks the peas will need a lattice upon which to crawl up.  We did cheat a bit and bought pepper plants, tomato plants, blackberry plants, raspberry plants, and blueberry plants.  These all seem to be thriving.

 

Other than the labor, we didn't do much this weekend.  We did go to a nice lunch on Saturday--sort of a celebration of our hard work and Bode's report card (all A's and a B).  We had shrimp, corn, potatoes, and crab legs (Bode loves the legs).  Otherwise, it was quite dull.  The following two pictures accurately summarize the rest of our weekend.

Pleasant week to all.