The sun and the rain have spoken and the result is an awful mess in the yard. First, the sun and heat wreaked havoc on the sensitive little St. Augustine blades causing lots of burnt out spots in the yard because I could not afford to water every day. THEN, a huge rain came and washed away all hope of a recovered lawn. This is the worst I've ever seen the grass look. Half of it looks great, lush and green, but the other half is now a dull dead gray. The outside is now generally trashy due to the grass growing faster than I can keep up with. The rain has also washed the decomposed granite down the sidewalk and onto the patio in a mini landslide.




On the non whining side, we decided to put a pavilion-like cover over the back door. We are calling this "The Porch". It took a whole department to come up with that name. The Porch is based on its cousin, The Pavilion in the general feel, but scaled down size. Scheduled completion is October 1 before we have everything finished out, stained, cleaned up and looking good.



We are very thankful to have been able to get a new roof at the very end of August. Along with that, the chimney was rebuilt nice and vertical this time.



The cows are back and I've never been more happy to see them!