I can tell I'm growing up when the highlight of my weekend is cleaning the house from top to bottom. That's the task my wife and I completed this past Saturday. When I was younger the weekend would focus on what things I was going to do: go out to movies, out to dinner, driving around, hanging out with friends. We got up around 9 and started cleaning. After a couple hours of cleaning and a whining dog we had completed the house cleaning. I took the bathrooms and the kitchen while my wife took the bedrooms and vacuuming. She likes vacuuming now that we bought a Dyson. It amazes me how much stuff that thing can suck up. Looking at the amount of hair the thing picks up I'm amazed everyone in the house still has hair.
More evidence of growing up is my worrying about all the dead spots out on my lawn. After getting the soil and seed from Wal-Mart we did some digging and planting. Unfortunately, we have yet to see any seedlings come up. The bag said 7-10 days and it's been over 2 weeks without anything. I'm beginning to think that we might just buy a couple rolls of sod and fix it quick. We only dug up the front of the yard so our side yard with more dead spots from the dog still needed to be addressed. I looked around on the net and talked with co-workers to see what they did about this. I read and hear from a couple sources that raking the dead spots "may" bring it back to life or at least tell me how dead it is. I spent about an hour this evening raking my yard to pull up all the dead grass. The result of my raking is that the yard doesn't look as bad. I have until June 1 to fix the yard so I'm going to spend the next two weeks hoping and praying that some of the grass comes back.
When I was younger the only attention I paid to the lawn was the 45 minutes I spent mowing it.
