Creative Yard Work

It’s not 90 degrees out, it’s not raining and we don’t have to go to the Bronx until late this afternoon so today we decided to do something about the lawn. It really can’t even be called a lawn. It’s dirt & ditches with a few sporadic spots of grass. Mostly, the state of the lawn can be blamed on the dog but it’s not like we did much to remedy the situation, either so today is the day that we decided to fill in the trenches and reseed.

Here’s Frank hard at work, filling in all the nice holes the dog decided to create. That black blob is the dog. Nicky is thinking, “Oh, good! You’re putting some nice new dirt down for me to dig in. I was getting bored with having the same dirt all the time.”

Now if there is any hope at all of this grass seed sprouting, we will need to keep the dog off the lawn. In order to do this, I needed to get a bit creative. I had a roll of black, fiberglass screening that I had purchased a while back when I wanted to try my hand at paper making. Yeah, that would work perfectly to put up a temporary fence.

After I blocked off one end of the yard, I got to thinking. “The dog won’t be able to see this at night because it’s black. He might not be smart enough to notice it in the daytime, either. I’m going to have to do something to make it stand out. This is what I came up with:

Don’t the pieces of masking tape make it look really cool?

There’s Frank in the background, still hard at work. I would have helped him except I had more important things to do like take photos and build fences.

I have no clue if this screen fence will work. I am hoping Nicky will just stop dead in his tracks when he sees it because if he wants to, he can probably walk right through it and take the entire thing down. (Shhhh…. don’t tell him that!)

As I was busy at work on the computer, uploading photos, I heard Frank call to me. “Quick! Come here!” I ran out, thinking something had happened. Did the bags of top soil explode in the street before he was able to carry them out of the car? Did the dog quickly dig a hole the size of a small pool? Did an underground nest of stinging insects suddenly emerge and attack? When I got to the door, what I saw was a dog covered in grass seed. It seems he decided to walk right into the seed spreader. Frank neglected to add, “And bring your camera!” when he called to me.