It's Official! We have the worst yard in the neighborhood! David has now deemed this uncontrollable plot of land that our house sits on 'The Noblesville Wildlife Preserve.' Which isn't too far from the truth. Our lawn is filled with a ridiculous amount of dandelions, clovers, and a variety of other weeds which probably have names that no one can really pronounce. We are crossing our fingers that all of these weeds are in the process of dying a slow and ruthless death after this week's dose of Weed-B-Gone. We've also noticed that our lawn is striped....yep, striped! Thick horizontal stripes of light green and dark green span the yard from back to front. Looking around -- no other lawn has this effect! We must be special. So special in fact that we have the pleasure of housing a rabbit under our deck. This rabbit has not only etched a path in our backyard to the fence line, but is also a very determined little thing. We tried to block the access holes around the deck only to find new holes made a few days later! I'm thinking we should give our little rabbit friend a name...any suggestions? I'm also waiting to see little baby bunnies hopping around the yard. Planting our garden this year will be interesting...That is if the kildeer don't attack us as we are bent over digging holes in the soil. Those things LOVE our yard almost as much as they love waking us up on the weekend at 6 a.m.!....must be the abundance of weeds to eat. We currently have a nest with 4 eggs by the littlest tree in the yard. Cross your fingers that David doesn't come out of an afternoon of mowing the lawn with puncture wounds from an angry momma bird in addition to the back ache that he already has because our yard is extremely uneven. Needless to say, we don't plan on bothering the nest.
Despite all of this we are still very determined (even more so than the rabbit) to undo this mess. With the help of Scott's turf builder we hope to have our lawn in better shape by the end of the summer. We'd rather not be the embarrassment of the cul-de-sac this time next year!
OK -- done with my rant ....
