Category: Watering

As soon as we finished our day’s worth of yard work Dana got the final sprinklering going. We are both so tired we can barely remain upright.

When I woke up this morning I went right to watering. It’s going to be a big day of house cleaning and yard work and it’s going to be in the 80’s.

Dana took care of the final watering of the afternoon. When I came home I once again found our neighbor, Becky, in the backyard helping us with our gardening. Before moving to Denver Becky served as a master gardner and it is obvious from her knowledge and love of everything growing. Becky was working on getting a particular weed up and it wasn’t going well. Shortly after she left I thought I’d be helpful and give it a tug. It broke right off in my hand. I felt so bad that I immediately went for the shovel. I dug down around the root of the week and ended up having to go down nearly a foot to find the end of the room. This doesn’t leave much confidence in what will be required to remove all the weeds in the backyard and get the soil ready for reseeding or sodding.

When I woke up this morning and went out to water I found the lawn saturated. There were no signs on the concrete or cars that it had rained but there was a random piece of paper that had blown onto the lawn and it was soaked. I took off my shoe and stepped onto the grass with a bare foot and it too was wet. I figured that was a sign that we shouldn’t water. It’s supposed to be a bit cooler today though still low 80s. Perhaps by midday it will need water.

I got the watering going as soon as I woke up. It’s supposed to be mid to high 80’s today. Can’t wait to get some of the weeds pulled and grass cut. I’ll try to get some new photos up this evening.

Dana took care of the evening watering as well. the grass is looking very green and is starting to fill in. Can’t wait until we are able to mow.

Dana came home midday to do some watering. With the progress on the yard it is easier to find motivation to keep up the watering.

We had the day off yesterday due to rain and low temperatures. No such luck today. It’s going to be mid 70’s and sunny today. I got up and went right to watering.

It was chilly and gray today so I held off watering. I ran the sprinkler just now. Looks like our efforts are starting to pay off.