A couple of weeks ago Bobby and I had a “fun” idea to kill all of the weed grass in our backyard. That is about 2/3 rds of our yard, and then plant grass seed to hopefully get nice grass in the whole backyard. It took 3 rounds of applying Roundup to kill some of this stubborn weed grass. I was beginning to wonder if it would ever die. It felt so weird watching the grass die. Last weekend Bobby rented this bad boy (in the picture) I have no idea what this tool is called. In about a hour and a half it tilled up our yard and we planted the seed. Right now we are watering like seed like crazy and waiting for the seed to sprout. Our backyard looks like a tiny farm field. While working in the yard I realized how hard preparing the land to plant is, and I am so thankful that I was not a pioneer tilling the land for the first time, to grow food that was my basic way of surviving. Bobby and I love being outside working on our house together and it makes us kinda sad to think how far removed we are from living off the land.
Hopefully by the end of the summer I can take pictures of the pretty grass that has grown in.
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