Our lawn was pretty shabby when we first moved in.  Since our house was as foreclosure, the yard went for a whole summer without any attention before we moved in.  This summer we’ve put quite a bit of work into getting the yard cleaned up and weeded and keeping the lawn watered and mowed and fertilized.

And we are making progress.  In fact, for a while this summer we were only the second worst lawn in the neighborhood.  Granted the worst lawn belonged to an unoccupied home, but it was still nice to not be the worst.  Tonight when we were out on our walk we noticed that the house is no longer vacant and the new owner was out spraying weeds… we may shortly be back to being the worst.

Even though having a patchy lawn isn’t entirely our fault, our neighbors don’t seem to appreciate looking at it.  A few weekends ago after we were up north sailing with Peter’s family, we arrived home to find that two different neighbors had planted shrubbery along our property line while we were away.  One neighbor plants stuff and you figure they just wanted to do some landscaping, two neighbors though… probably not a coincidence.

I guess we’ll just have to make it our goal for next year to make it out of the bottom two.