Saturday, March 12, 2005

dirt

Leveled the future lawn area and watered it. Took a swipe at leveling it. Want to plant a lawn there. Removed all the weeds. Raked it semi-level. Lower high spots and raise low spots.


Enjoyable sweaty work on the yard this afternoon. Made the kids some chocolate chip muffins for breakfast this morning. Making some ravioli now. Time to go stir it. And eat.


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Quite tasty. I made some really delicious spaghetti sauce last week that I finished off tonight. The kids had store bought white sauce. The spaghetti sauce starts with a chopped onion sauteed in olive oil or browned after you brown some ground beef and some ground sausage. Then add some diced tomatoes, some tomato sauce and some tomato paste. And some Italian seasoning. And some salt. And some garlic powder. And a lot of red wine. Then simmer for hours. Really good.


Reduce the height of the high spots and raise the low spots on the lawn area. Walk all over it and flatten it all out. Broadcast lawn seed once it's all flat and ready to go. Water the lawn. Grow a new lawn. Hope that we get to keep the house. Maybe we won't. That would suck. That would upset the kids. This house is right next to junior high and high school. I often feel weary not knowing what will happen. Getting rid of Diane seems to be taking a lifetime. I keep expecting her to kill herself. I don't see her improving.


Glad to have worked on the lawn today. Got something done.