It’s still January (barely) so there’s still time for me to make some New Year’s Resolutions, right?
This year, I want to:
- Go to the gym at least 10 times per month
- Finish my scene-by-scene outline for the second draft of Coven Hill
- Finalize all of the backgrounds for episode one of Rise of the Hidden Sun
- Finish up the episode one animation sequences, too
- Take the kids to Europe, if our finances allow it
- Completely redo my online travel writing portfolio
- Organize the family photos dating back to 2007
- Repaint at least half the rooms in our house
So there: Some creative stuff, some around-the-house stuff, and a couple of personal or family enrichment goals.
I’ll let you know how I did when next January rolls around.
Next year, I will clean the gutters before everything inside them freezes.
My lawn company, Prescription Turf Services, says "The lawn's looking great, keep watering!"
I am at war with my lawn. Well, with the nasty little grubs that have devoured my lawn from the roots up, anyway.
It started about three years ago with a little patch of dead grass in the back yard. Not knowing much about lawncare at the time, I didn’t think much of it.
Big mistake.
Three years on, it’s now a full-blown disaster. I’ve tried lawn companies who’ve promised to take care of the problem. Instead it’s only gotten worse.
About a month ago, I decided to take matters into my own hands. It’s too late in the season to apply GrubEx to kill the little buggers, but there’s still time to give the lawn a healthy head start over the winter.
So, step one was to dethatch the living grass and completely remove the dead stuff. That took a few weekends worth of work. Then over Labor Day I spread 25 bags of seeding soil over the bare spots and planted new grass seed over the entire lawn. Now it’s all about trying to foster a healthy green lawn before the leaves fall and everything goes dormant until spring.
Then, in April, I’ll go nuclear on the grubs and see what happens.
"Oh, that's just a little sun damage..."
