Rantings Diversified

Well here we go again. It’s a Saturday night and I’m watching the race. This week they’re in Darlington, the ‘Lady in Black’. They are not racing tomorrow because it’s Mothers Day. NASCAR has never run a race on Mothers Day.
So would someone please explain to me why I bust my butt working the yard and it continues looking like poop? Technogirly said that her place is so big that by the time you get done working on the land it’s time to go back to the other end and start again. My place is not that big and sometimes it feels that no matter how much I do it continues to look like shite!
Ok, so last Thursday I raked the shite out of my front yard so as to re-seed all the bare spots. Maybe some background is needed here.
When the original owner was moved out of here they backed a big-ass truck through the front yard and loaded out and then when I moved in I backed a big-ass truck through the front yard and loaded in. This caused there to be two very deep ruts in the front yard. I posted a picture of my neighbor standing in one of the ruts awhile ago. I’m too damn lazy to look up when it was but it was probably about a year ago. Anyways, the ruts were about 2 feet deep. Last summer a local guy who does landscaping came by one evening and dumped a mess of (not so) clean fill on my front yard. That was nice of him and he pointed out to me that it saved him from having to pay to dump it. My neighbor Jody and I picked most all the rocks out and spread it one morning then I spread grass seed and straw. The problem was it was already late June and way too late to plant grass. Needless to say it didn’t germinate and weeds, thistle, violets and little baby oak trees took over my front lawn. Because of all that I didn’t bother with my lawn this past autumn, for a reason. Stay with me here. This spring, the first time I cut my grass I didn’t rake it first so I mulched all that crap that had accumulated.
Now we’re back to last Thursday. I raked all the mulchy stuff off the lawn and spread a mess of grass seed down. Then I covered most of it with some dirt and walked all over what I had just done so as to help with the soil to seed contact. It has been raining since Thursday afternoon. That helps. Today, Saturday, I raked all the leaves and shite from around the foundation. I then took notice of where the ivy was growing back and sprayed it down with Roundup.
Tomorrow I’m going to rake out and weed the bushes out front then go dump the leaves and stuff from today(boy, it’s nice having a pickup) and then finish spraying Roundup on the area where the pines trees use to be.
If I EVER finish just cleaning up the yard then I’m gonna’ bring the grilling table and grill out and put them on the porch.
If any of yous’ guys’ wish to come help you’re more than welcome.
I’ll make lunch and dinner!!
Oh, and I’ll buy the beer too!
Let’s go racin’ boys!