Resilient

Ok, I'm a bit disappointing that Tec didnt show up to help me with my lawn work, but at least I didn't have to worry about my truck rims disappearing.

Anyway, I got a friendly visit from my HOA president asking me why my lawn was dead. Not being a botanist, I assumed it was due to the fact that grass sucks at growing in the desert. Not being happy with my answer, I was given roughly 7 days to get it fixed or face the wrath of the HOA. If any of you have a home owners association, you know where I'm coming from. They're pretty much old angry people with nothing better to do than to piss people off. However, in this case, they had a valid point. my lawn was dead and it looked like shit. See for yourself.



So I got hold of a buddy of mine, 3.5 tons of decorative stone, 3 boulders, 3 cacti (which don't die in the desert) and a whole bunch of sweat and came up with the fix for my HOA dilema.



My lawn now looks amazing, but unfortunately, my sex life is over. Yes, i've got so many blisters on my hands I may never recover. But at least my yard looks badass!

better sweep that gravel off the sidewalk!

Wow that's really impressive Domm. It's like a cross between a Japanese Rock Garden and an old folks home.

{deleted post} Hibenricus wrote:

Wow that's really impressive Domm. It's like a cross between a Japanese Rock Garden and an old folks home.

. . .and it's wheel chair accessible for my "HoverRound" !!!

WoW, looks awesome, nice dom!

it really does look sweet i would hate to maintain a lawn. i might do the same if the day where to come that i own a home.

back home I stopped mowing. I now have a Front Meadow - with a path mowed to the gazebo and a small area around that.

I like the easier job, It looks nicer and more natural, and the wild life love it aswell. the deer are alot more friendly =)

Here's an interesting update about my lawn's untimely demise.

I had a landscaper out yesterday to trouble-shoot my sprinkler system because even though I no longer have grass, I do have some trees in the front and back that need water. Unfortunately, i couldn't seem to get my sprinklers to turn on. My guess was that my sprinkler system died on me and that resulted in a dead lawn.

I could not have been more wrong.

My landscaper examined the sprinkler controls and said "everything here is fine". He then proceeded immediately over to the control valves buried in the yard and said "everything here is fine". He then went to the water main (the feed for the sprinklers) and said "your water is turned off". Naturally I said "wtf do you mean my water is turned off!"

It seems the lawn maintenance crew that my HOA hired to cut the front lawns and trim bushes and trees had shut my sprinkler's water feed off in order to do my lawn maintenance, but never turned it back on. One short week later, my lawn was dead.

So. . . . I'll be writing a nice letter to the HOA today explaining how my lawn died and requesting a full reimbursement for the money I spent to redo my lawn. Naturally I'll cc my lawyer so that the HOA knows its "go time".

As a side note: While i was redoing the lawn (in rocks) I had to cut and re-route much of the sprinkler plumbing to make sure the trees got watered directly, while eliminating all of the "pop-up" heads that would otherwise water the grass. Well, it seems that I cut some of the wrong pipes, so when the water did get turned on, it was sort of like a scene from the "Beverly Hillbillys" where Jed shot the ground and oil came spouting up. Except it was water, and shooting out of the ground in about 4 places.

2 hours of digging and 73 cents worth of plastic piping and now all is right with my sprinkler system, and the world.

I blame Obama

{deleted post} Kyzara wrote:

I blame Obama

^ This !!!

it's my quote of the week.

I like it! It plays well and has political relevance.

also Swine Flu is a government conspiracy. Thoughts?

no, this is a government conspiracy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pyW6w5B7Aw