To sod or not to sod, that is the question. Well, one of the questions. Some of the other questions are: what about fruit trees? Bark or gravel? What kinds of shrubs? What about sprinklers?
The biggest question is: what can we afford? And the answer, as it turns out, is: Not much!
Three different bids, all coming in over $10,000. And no, that doesn’t include a three tiered water feature (although my friend Heidi has a three-tiered water feature in her yard that turned out quite lovely; she can’t keep the kids off of it). That isn’t including a cedar play set, which will actually cost another couple thousand. And let’s not even talk about the awesome koi pond that I’ve been envisioning ever since, well, ever since I read about how cool koi are. (Common carp, I think not. Come on! These are snooty Japanese carp, people!) So Jon and I have decided that our summer will be spent doing lots of this stuff ourselves. And that’s alright with me, as long as the money we save is funneled into our vacation budget. I suppose it’s worth a hilly yard with dead grass and protruding, misplaced sprinkler heads if we get to spend a couple extra days in Meh-Hee-Ko (and that’s Cabo, not Tijuana).Last night Jon and I spent the bulk of the evening squatting down, shoveling gravel, and flinging it in a semi-even pattern underneath the deck. Dude, the 300 workout has nothin’ on the squatting-gravel-fling move that Jon and I invented and then did 300 reps of last night. I woke up this morning with unusually sore—but buff—forearms that at once got me excited and a little concerned. At breakfast I went into the kitchen and opened a fresh jar of jelly…without having to run the jar lid under warm water first! It was exciting! (Yeah, my life can be that boring…)So in a few months, we’ll invite everyone over to see the fabulous yard we’ve done ourselves. And who knows, we may do the sprinklers so wrong that a koi pond may end up in the far back corner of the yard after all.A girl can dream.
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