The Green & Green Grass of Home



February 7, 2013

 I knew it was bad, but I was trying to be patient.  Or maybe I was just in denial.  And then the missionary who rang my doorbell didn't even try to convert me to whatever it was he was selling.  He even forgot to hand me the tract he had in hand.  Instead he said, "Can I ask you a question?  I can see that you just re-did your front lawn.  Is it supposed to look like this?  A striped lawn?"  He was really embarrassed to ask, he said, but he thought that maybe, in this neighborhood, it was something new and cool. 

Confronted this way, by a religious person, the truth could not be avoided.   "No," I said, "it's not supposed to look that way.  It just turned out awful."  I might have been holding back tears. 

Now what?

April 7, 2013

Well, the landscaper overseeded the old grass, watered every day like crazy, overseeded one more time, added fertilizer and watered some more.   He suggested we wait a few weeks.  If it doesn't improve dramatically, we'll have to take drastic (and more expensive measures).

We waited two months.  Here's what it looks like now.  It does look better, doesn't it?  Maybe the missionary fellow should stop by one more time and be brutally inquisitive. 

Meantime, we have a patchwork quilt of greens.  Final outcome still pending.