How is your yard doing?

[melissakd]

Our yard was doing fine until this morning. I heard a car crash occurring outside...I'll try to get pictures, you guys, because it's just...yeah. My DH is absolutely beside himself. My theoretical reconstruction of events:

Trashy female gets high.
TF attempts to park on our block. (She seems to have lived at the crummy rental DH calls "the juke joint" a couple of houses down.)
Because she is high, TF hits the gas instead of the brake as she pulls in.
Totals the neighbor's car, pushing it against the next car and damaging it too.
Goes up over the sidewalk and up over our shrubs and then back through the shrubs and onto the sidewalk, coming to rest against a telephone pole and a street tree.
Gets hauled off to the hospital. Police report she had a joint in her purse, a screwdriver to open the car trunk with, and no auto insurance. She wasn't wearing a seatbelt either, of course, and had a dandy cut on her face.

My darling DH will have to re-stack the rock wall, but I really don't think the damage extends beyond a bag of dirt, some grass seed, and a yew or two.

Sorry to tease you all, but will try for photos tomorrow. It's five o'clock and wild horses won't keep DH at work any longer.

MKD

[westvillager]

I can relate to that! My car was recently totaled while it was parked in front of my house when a drunken driver who was being chased by the police rear-ended it at high rate of speed. It pushed my car forward into my neighbor's car. The occupants of the vehicle bailed out of their stolen minivan on foot...the police never did find them. However, in my case, the lawn was unscathed. It's too bad...the lawn has not a single blade of grass left in it and is all weeds. It looks like crap & it would've been nice to have an excuse to redo it. Unfortunately there are other things much higher on the priority list!

[KathyJB]

Glad your house wasn't hit, especially the people inside. Here are a few shots of my house today. My flag is at half staff for a young man from my town who died Friday in Afghanistan.
Hope the link works

http://s42.photobucket.com/albums/e330/ ... 011%20May/

[lisascenic]

Sleeves, one of the cats who "came with the house" enjoys our old rose bushes. This particular bush was so choked by other plants that I didn't realize it was there when we bought the place. The ninety-something lady from whom we bought our house clearly did not have the strength to keep up her back yard. It was a vine and weed infested tangle when we first moved in.



The hops have crested the roof of the garage. We'll use them as an ingredient in beer later this year. It seems that I need to apply another coat of paint to the lintel of the door. We did a huge amount of work on the garage, which some of you may recall from the "garage mahal" thread. You can see one of our beehives, and the structure that the beans will grow on. The tree on the right is our plum tree, which I've been trying to revive. There's a "volunteer" plum, on which I've been experimenting with grafting. I think that about ten grafts took, and we'll have a tree that grows a variety of different fruits, all on one tree.



And speaking of trees, the lemon tree is an endless delight. Citrus amazes me, because unlike other trees, the fruit "keeps" on the tree. We've been harvesting lemons for months!

[Kansas. 1911.]

Lisa, I bow to you. The most beauty and highest output in the smallest amount of space with the cheapest overhead. Good job on salvaging the old roses.

[KristenS]

Our yard was doing fine until this morning. I heard a car crash occurring outside...

Somehow I missed this post when it was posted. Oh, Melissa, I'm sorry! What a crappy thing to happen.

[lisascenic]

The most beauty and highest output in the smallest amount of space with the cheapest overhead.

Kansas, thank you for your kind words!

That sentence might as well be my Mission Statement.

[melissakd]

Our yard was doing fine until this morning. I heard a car crash occurring outside...

Somehow I missed this post when it was posted. Oh, Melissa, I'm sorry! What a crappy thing to happen.

Oh, thank you so much! It was actually, I must confess, far more awesome than crappy. The car executed a midair left turn of some sort or it would have taken out our porch, or possibly the parlor. DH is still disgustedly muttering about resale value and curb appeal, but has re-stacked the rocks and fluffed the shrubbery back out and if it doesn't die, we'll be more or less whole, except for picking 9000 fragments of auto glass out of the park strip. (Not sure we should use the shop-vac on it.) The neighbors e-mailed us the photos; I'll try to get them up, but in the mean time I may Telestrate the Buick's trajectory if I get a minute.

MelissaKD

P.S. Everyone, your yards are so great I was inspired to employ our dandelion fork/dandelion digger on two separate occasions. Considering my abiding hatred of yard work, I hope you'll take that as the tribute it is.

[kat]

My yard is all sand burrs...if you havent encountered one you dont want to...they are low growing with the meanest burrs EVER..they will bring you to your knees when you step on one ...it sticks into you until you can get the nerve to pull it out. the dogs know the routes around the yard and walk incredibly complicated paths just to potty and not get stuck. Had a friend whose dog got one in its mouth and had to be sedated to get it out..

I HATE SAND BURRS!

[YinzerMama]

My yard is all sand burrs...if you havent encountered one you dont want to...they are low growing with the meanest burrs EVER..they will bring you to your knees when you step on one ...it sticks into you until you can get the nerve to pull it out. the dogs know the routes around the yard and walk incredibly complicated paths just to potty and not get stuck. Had a friend whose dog got one in its mouth and had to be sedated to get it out..

I HATE SAND BURRS!

i have encountered those and they are evil!