Well it’s a bit of a miracle I’m still up right now. I tested positive for covid yesterday and I’ve been feeling pretty bad. I slept most of the day today while the kids were at camp/daycare which I think is the reason I’m feeling quite a bit better. It’s rather inconvenient timing to get sick because I had to cancel a 3 way retirement party at my house Wednesday, I have a friend from Costa Rica visiting Friday and we are supposed to travel again on Saturday.
Hopefully we’re better soon! I’ve been working on some little crafts for our trip to Disney that I’ll show you shortly! But since I’m sick I’m going to keep this one short. One of my friends was asking if I ever went thru with the clover lawn… and I did. Last June I bought a ton of Dutch white clover seed (44lbs of seed – enough to cover 1/2 an acre) from this great store called Nature’s Seed. Our entire plot is 1.49 acres, and most of that is grass, but the plan was to intersperse the clover seeds with the grass. Total cost for 44lbs of seed was $227. I borrowed our neighbor’s spreader to spread it out… but I didn’t realize the clover seed was SO TINY. We’re talking like grains of sand tiny. It slipped right thru the hopper so I eventually gave up and just threw it around by hand… which was wildly inaccurate.
Luckily though it sprouted in a few weeks and has been making our yard look lush, green, and, periodically, like a meadow. (Prep for when the bees come back.) We haven’t had trouble with the robotic lawnmower mowing it, or, this year while Moe’s been under repair, with the regular deck mowers mowing it. Clover is drought tolerant, so we went way longer than usual before starting to water the lawn, turning on the sprinklers on June 29th this year. (This was mostly an accident.) I have some pictures below of the yard at various points so you can tell what it looks like! Oh and check out this little surprise I found while waiting with Julius for his bus in June!
