Psychotomy

Last summer, right? I spent most of a week working to clear the yard. took out like 10-12 bags worth of growth, from the front yard, then another two carloads of the backyard, cutting out the Mountain Laurel, the Butterfly Bush, the other bush, etc.

And the front grew weeds before the grass seed even germinated. Oi. but the back yard did a good job of staying clear. When we were out playing with the tye-die stuff that kiir’s talking about, back in late March, maybe?, it was nice and clear. Yay it worked!

Or did it? Turns out, no. When I looked out there like two weeks later, it was all regrowing. Even the miscellaneous bush (which, admittedly, I didn’t manage to dig out completely) was back. And I was looking because I was trying to figure out where to put Des’ new Water Table toy thingie.

Looks like ~125 to put weed netting over the front and back yards. Not sure it’s supposed to be used for that much space, but I think I’ll work with it anyway. Another 100 or so for the sod for the front (because the grass seed worked TERRIBLY last time, honestly, and I don’t want to go through a lot of effort and time for no result, again ; I’d rather play with my son, frankly). Need some kind of tiller to grind up the soil, IMO, which are exoensive (500-1000, and most of them will do my whole yard in one swath … if I had the riding mower to attach them to!), or rented (don’t know the price, but I’d probably have to rent the truck, which is like 50$/hr). Lowes has a portable cordless weed-whacker looking cultivator, which supposed turns the soil an’ all a few inches deep. 100$, sounds like what I want, no?

Then we want to expand the slab patio in the back. Pave a bit more yard so there’s a surface for Des. The stones we like, looks like ~200 do do a small chunk of the yard. And the yard is apparently much larger than it seems, b/c 10×10 is less than half the damned thing! WOW! but at 2.50 for 1×1, we’re leery of doing too much :/

yaknow, I may just go ahead and get the cultivator. I have no real use past the yard project, but I think it’d cost me as much, or more, to rent something. I’ll also need to work over the weekend to dig out the remnants of bushes and trees in the back, I guess. Make sure they’re gone this time.

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