Attending my High School's Homecoming

I accepted a Facebook invitation to attend my High Schools Homecoming football game and participate in the alumni high school band at half-time. Arrangements were made for me to play the sousaphone with the band. Unfortunately, lightening and a down pour of rain delayed the start of the game and Mr. H made the decision to postpone the halftime festivities. I considered this a wise decision, especially considering that the band had to participate in KU's Band Day the following day. MGT and I stayed and watched the first few series of plays and, as it turned out, Highland Park did not put up much of a fight against the mighty Topeka High Trojans.

And so, MGT and I went to a local Topeka bar and got caught up and each other's comings-and-goings. Good conversation.

We found out later that the end to the football game was suspended due to a brawl that broke out half-way through the 4th quarter. We were ahead 50-6 and the refs ended the game and awarded us the victory.

I drove home on the turnpike through torrential rain between Topeka and Lawrence. It was dry east of Lawrence and the rain caught up to my house two hours later and gave my entire yard a good soaking of precip.

Yard Update

Well, after a week of watering and a generous dumping of rain, I'm beginning to see results with the grass seed I planted in my yard. The blue grass-fescue combination is sprouting where I planted, even in the bare spots that have existed since I moved in. I plan on throwing down some more fertilizer next month and then November I will throw down winterizer, as per instructions from the local garden place The Grass Pad.

I hope my green thumb luck continues.

Top Soil

I'm in the middle of laying top soil in my yard. I've resigned myself to the fact that if grass is going grow in certain areas of my yard, I have to fortify the soil with more top soil. I spent most of the daylight fertilizing my lawn, laying down extra grass seed at the bare areas, and then laying 2,000 lbs of top soil.

I will do even more top soil on Sunday and will probably feel lethargic by day's end.

Aeration of the yard

I had my first experience with an aerator as I perforated my lawn late Saturday afternoon. The aerator is a bulky, heavy machine and it requires knowledge of throttling. If you throttle too much, the machine will run quickly on you. If you throttle too little, you don't go anywhere. Also, for every pass on your lawn, you have to lift and reset the spikes every time you turn around. I was grateful that MS came up from Shawnee to help me. The machine is heavy weighing about 270 pounds, I believe.