August 27, 2006

Grass!

No, not that kind. The lawn kind. My side yard was utterly destroyed last year by the workers who built my new addition. The dumped the debris from the old deck there after the tear out. After they got that hauled out, they stacked lumber and other building supplies there. The lawn, which was weedy and skimpy anyway, never recovered. There are garden beds all around the sides. The rosemary bush revived just fine, in spite of having plywood stored on top of it for days. I don’t think it’s possible to kill rosemary. One very tall ti plant and a pikake also survived, but it took them months to recover from the damage. The rest of the garden, including my herbs and a nice bed of ferns, didn’t survive at all. So it’s been very barren outside of my screened lanai since last winter. The only thing I’ve put in so far is a few herbs. It’s time to have my little patch of lawn again. The rest of my yard is “practical.” All xeriscaped, which is really the only thing that makes sense on this dry leeward coast. Some palms and ferns, pikake and a plumeria tree. A few potted plants dotted around. All do well with minimal watering. Since I’ve cut back most of the watering, I can install my little ten by ten lawn, guilt free! I’ll get one of the hardy grasses that won’t drink much after it’s put down roots.

Next task: Siiiiiigh! That would be the shed with the gardening supplies. There are paint cans, tarps and power tools all mixed up, higgledy-piggledy, with everything that I’ll need to have access to before I can get started. I’m sure it’ll be fun. :0( I need to organize all three sheds, but for right now I may have to settle for just being able to find the gardening tools and get to them without barking my shins.)

Progress: The books aren’t disappearing fast enough, but I know what’s where, what will be kept and what needs to be gotten rid of. Quite a few have been registered and prepped for release, and a few have already begun their journey. And I guess that’s the important thing: that it’s getting done, despite delays.

Posted by skeet @ 4:24 pm • Home & Family