The highs and lows of yard work!

Since the sun finally showed itself to the Willamette Valley yesterday, Chris and I decided to attack our neglected yard. Man-o-man, for such a small yard we have a lot of work ahead of us. We weeded, sprayed weed killer, planted seeds, scattered grass seed, transplanted a bush, cleaned off our porch and mowed the lawn (well I guess you would call it mowing....see lawn story below). We worked our tails off and have the blisters and splinters to prove it.

Our 5 hours of yard work flew by, but we realize that there is so much MORE to do. Our backyard is going to be our Spring project. We have big plans to have it ready by summer so we can enjoy it while the sun is out.


One of the things we are most excited about is our future garden. Eventhough our lawn is small we are using some of the borders for our organic garden. So far we have planted corn, radishes, green onions, cucumbers, beans, peas, tomatoes, and squash. My Iowa relatives would be so proud of their Oregon girl. We had to start our herbs indoors since it is still a bit too cold, but I will be transplaning those in about a month or two.

We have found that yard work is harder than it looks. When you are new at the yard work thing you kind of have to learn on the fly. There are constant questions, like: when to plant, what kind of fertilizer to use, how much to water, and as we learned yesterday how short to cut the grass. Chris has mowed our lawn before, but for some reason he decided yesterday to mow it at the shortest setting. BAD IDEA!! Basically he mowed our lawn bald. Oh well, grass is like hair...it grows back (hopefully). Let's just hope it grows back FAST!!!!!!