When you buy a place as a “fixer-upper” there are certain things you must be willing to accept: living with some things as they are longer than you’d like or living in a constant construction zone during the slow progress of night and weekend projects typically come to mind. But, the one that’s the most noticeable – at least to anyone driving by – is the lawn.

We’ve lived here for about 4 1/2 years now and I only remember a two month period where the lawn wasn’t in some progress of repair from one project or another.

In the beginning, it was some minor landscaping changes we made. But that was quickly followed by the tracks from the lift used to put on the new roof.

Then we tore out the old cement patio and sealed up a couple of the old window wells. And since that was already a big mess, we changed the grade along the side of the house to keep rain water out of the basement.

Can’t forget the mess from the trees we took out of the front yard.

And then there was the big one…

The new well involved trucks, trenches, and piles of mud and drillings.

After all of that, we finally had the lawn green everywhere for two months this summer. That is, until last weekend and this…

For those of you that can’t recognize it, that is the middle of the driveway and the lawn northeast of the house. I’ll tell you all about it next week, but I think it’s safe to say the two month stretch of having everything green is over and it will likely be a long time before everything is green again.