Cloudy, Overcast, But Septic/Yard's Done

Seeding

More seeding

A warmer morning, around 69, with showers expected this morning of course, clearing up.  I suppose it won't rain, however, because we want it to...our yard was seeded last night, so we need some rain to get it growing properly over the next two/three weeks; not too much, not too little.  I think I will be doing quite a bit of sprinkling over this period.  Rodger and crew finished up leveling the yard around 4:00 and did a great job.  He and Lonnie were neat guys, fun to talk to, and very efficient.  Then, the two State Patrol guys came in with their machine, and it took them about 20 minutes to cover our yard with a combination of seed, fertilizer, straw, and a kind of clear to keep it from blowing away.  It's now, as you can see in the picture, a fluorescent green, which will gradually fade away as it rains, the sun heats, the grass grows.  We should have some grass in a week, though the Kentucky Blue does not come in for three weeks. It should be ready for some action by the time the kids arrive in later July if  we get enough rain and sun.

We went to the Viking Club last evening for Cubans, with the Schultz's, our neighbors, and Ron and Linda, who just got back to the lake yesterday.  A bit overcast but pleasant, we sat outside on the patio, drank beer, ate Cubans, and watched the gray sky slowly darken.  It's a great place to watch the sunset but because of the cloud cover, we just got glimpses.  The price on Cubans has gone up from six to seven dollars; each sandwich easily feeds two people, so we cannot complain.  If we didn't drink beer we could get out of there for seven bucks a piece.  Alas, we do!

The CLA crew arrived this morning, after Evie's persistence, and picked up piles of seaweed from four of our neighbors yard, filling up the truck.  We hope this will  become a weekly happening but we are not sure yet what we can expect.