It’s been raining hard for over 24 hours now. All the brooks and streams have filled their banks and many low areas are experiencing flooding. The new lawn is gone. We have some erosion that will need to be fixed and then I’m sure I will need to reseed. Fortunately, the next several days look like fair weather.
Last week I started ripping up the front lawn. Many boulders and large rocks were removed, the stump of a fir tree was dug up and an old hemlock stump was buried under a few inches of soil. Other than one large boulder that seems to extend to the center of the Earth the front lawn is clean of obstacles and seems much larger now.
Of course, as you can see in the photo, most of the yard is now dirt. We seeded last night and now we pray for grass. Hopefully it’s green by Erica’s birthday in early June.
This is the re-birth of The Johnson Family website. I got tired of the old site. But I’ve been blogging much more lately and hope to report in here more often as well.
We had a georgeous day yesterday and was able to rake most of the lawn. A couple of patches are still frozen with ice. But now that those areas are uncovered of sand and dirt they should melt soon. Other than along the road and the places where the snowbanks sat, the lawn looks good.
But that will change on Monday. I hope to remove a couple of tree stumps and large rocks. When finished hauling off the ruble and filling in the holes it’s going to look like a war zone I fear. We shall see.
