I park my car next to this loveliness every evening. Honestly, things could be worse. As the weather continues to warm up, we're seeing more and more color popping up around The Serpico House. Some of it is almost startling--I need to take a picture of the enormous number of green stalks popping up next to our front steps. Mrs. Serpico, my hat is off to you... so many plantings!
Something I've been considering lately... it may make sense for us to hire out for our first lawn-cutting and Spring clean-out... mainly because we don't have a lawnmower yet, and it's a hell of a lot cheaper to hire someone to handle that than it is to buy a lawnmower. It already sort of looks like our front lawn is getting a little crazy... we can't let it go for too much longer. Ugh.
Another thought... a "Green Lawn" guy stopped by our place yesterday, trying to sell us his service. Dude doesn't cut grass or work on flower beds. Nope. All he does is come around about six times per year to fertilize the lawn, put down weed-killer and spray some kind of insect repellent. OK, I guess that flies with some of the other folks in the suburbs, but no. Not me. First of all, I don't care if my lawn is perfectly green and insect free. I don't mind crab grass. That shit is in nature, and I'm fine with it showing up in my yard. It's really no big deal. I was polite to him, and I told him we felt our money was probably more wisely invested in a landscaping company. I can throw down fertilizer and grass seed on my own. I wonder how many of my neighbors are going for this? I think it's like $50 per treatment. Screw that. I'll pay that to some kid every other week to cut my grass.
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