Scattered Thoughts . . .

I t has been about two weeks since I seeded the new putting green in our backyard.  The grass is coming up nicely but it is a slow and almost painful process watching new grass grow while hoping it would finally be mature enough to do some pitching and putting.   I've been watering all the new grass around the property every morning and every evening so I'm really not just sitting around waiting for the grass to grow.  I have a bajillion other springtime projects that are keeping me busy when my health allows too.  Waiting for this new grass to grow does seem like an awful lot of waiting though.   In the first photo, above right, we are looking at the putting green from our backyard.  The grassy field beyond the putting green in this photo is our neighbor's yard.  The putting green is in the farthest back part of our yard.  The photo below, at bottom, is looking at the putting green from the new area that I cleared out and also seeded....

It seems that most years we have difficulty finding wildflower seed so we end up a little bit behind schedule.  This year I didn't even bother wasting my time and energy by searching for seed locally and instead ordered it from Amazon the moment I realized it was that time of year.  I couldn't find any seed locally last year and I really wasted a lot of time so I eventually had to order it online from Amazon. It was such a painless, quick and easy way to purchase that I went right to Amazon this year. Now we have the seed... we just need to get out of the freezing nighttime temperatures so we can plant. In the meantime, we need to clean out the flowerbeds all around the house in preparation of this new short growing season. We could probably use some top soil and peat moss as well... I'll have to grab some of that the next time we are at Lowes or Home Depot. So far, however, we are on track for some nice wildflowers this season!