Yard Work

My grass that I planted in the front yard and nurtured ever so carefully was beautiful for a while. Then we got our first water bill after a month of using the automatic sprinklers and figured out we must have a leak in the system somewhere. We decided to stop using the automatic system and feed the kids instead. The grass all but died, but the kids are still alive.

Thankfully, we finally got a lot of rain and the grass in the front yard made a come back, sort of. We have a drainage system that filters water to the backyard so it is always green. Because we have had tons of rain, the grass in the back was actually kind of jungle-ish.

Aaron and Hannah (Rachel is really innocent) are forever leaving balls, sticks, rocks and other junk around the backyard that I have to dodge when I am mowing. Because the grass was so high this time around, I sent them out there with rakes to go through the grass before I mowed.

Hannah came out of the garage carrying a garden rake and said, "I am just like a farmer with a pitch fork. I love yard work."

I mowed the side yard while they went over the backyard. After that, I had them pick sticks up out of the front yard. Not that I couldn't see them with the almost dead grass, but it is good for them to help out.

After mowing, I trimmed the trees around the yard.

This is Aaron and Hannah having a popsicle on their break. They were too cute sitting on the steps with their rain boots on. The boots were their idea.

Of course, we don't do yard work around here without finding snakes. We found one this morning, but I didn't stop to take a picture.

As I started typing this post, Aaron and his friend came to get me because they found this one in the backyard. I am fairly certain it is a midland brown snake. It is hard to tell in the picture, but it is probably only six inches long.