Tons of Yard Now.

Well today I was in the yard all day. At the beginning of the week my intentions were to cut down the Elm trees in the back yard on Monday and then on Wednesday I was going to plan the Sprinkling system then on Friday I was going to put that punk in the ground. Well Monday I did manage to get one and a half of the trees cut down. Then on Wednesday I can't remember what I did, that happens a bit I will lose time in my life and not remember a thing. Thursday night my old man came over and helped me plan a bit of sprinkling system. The more I read and talked to my dad the more I realized that no matter how much I wanted this to be a two day job there is no way on this green earth that one person, with as little knowledge as I had, could accomplish that task.



After my dad helped me plan out a bit and the more that I thought it all out I went to the good ol' Home Depot, Lowes staff is more knowlegdable sometimes but they are also more explensive. After about 5 minutes of walking around in the plumbing I finally found someone that knew quite a but about the whole sprinkler thing, having done 5 yards himself he says. Well I picked at his brain and got ideas and knowledge and prices and more ideas and more knowledge and realized that unless this is all I did for a couple days, it was going to take me about a week to get everything all planned out and measured and dug out and hooked up and running corectly.



During this process I am going to be landscaping my front yard as well so it is a bit more involved than sticking a tube in the ground and the fact that there has never been an automatic sprinkling system or a system that is connected to the main line, I have to connect everything from the main water line all the way to the sprinklers and everything in between. I spent an hour at Home Depot and got some manuals and things and wrote some information down and then went over to Walgreen's for some graph paper and a compass and ruler. This project needed to be quite a bit more thought out than my attempt at a covered parking, which my dad, two brothers and I did in a day planning and everything. That was interesting to say the least.



Today I started in the wannabe flower bed in the front yard digging it all up pulling out all the bricks and rocks and two massive stumps and then finding the original line and pulling up about 20 feet of that. I leveled out the ground pulled out all the horrible Irises that were allowed to grow for so long that they looked more like a weed rather than a semi decent flower. I checked my yard and took note of all of the different kinds of weeds that have accumlulated there, which problably make about 60-70 percent of the yard cover. Hopefully by next week I will have all of my plans drawn out and sprinklers planned and then I can start the process of slapping this system together.



Although this is all pretty extensive work and sometimes labor intensive, I find it very relaxing and mind easing. The yard puts me at peace and I feel safer and more relaxed then any other place that I have ever been in a long time. I don't lose track of time I don't forget where I am or what I am doing. It really makes me feel like the world is a decent place, as opposed to the rest of the time I am wondering around feeling like something aweful is about to happen and there is nothing that I can do to stop it, not a good feeling to have.
Lauren comes home from Moab with her mom tomorrow and I am really excited to see her. She has kept in touch with text messages and let me know that she is doing ok and having fun but, she misses me and that's good because I miss her quite a bit as well. Hopefully things with my yard will bloom this year and then I can focus on other areas of the house like the back yard and cleaning that all up or maybe an east fence, it looks like poop and in the back yard there are two fences running side by side, my neighbors chain link fence and my wood slat fence. It leaves a two foot gap between the fences and cutting our yard down and is just a mess.
So this year my landscaping abiblities will be tested with the formation of my yard, there will be pictures so that the transformation will be documented. When I am finished I will have one of the nicer yards on the street if everthing turns out as nice as it looks in my mind, and we know how those kinds of things work just perfectly out to what we think of. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha.