Kill Your Lawn!
I'm only halfway through decoupaging my laundry room door, but I decided to start researching two new projects.
(1) Installing solar panels, which I seem to remember runs about $30,000, is done with a home equity loan, and pays for itself in 10 years. My electricity bill is over $400 in the summer but I get rebates because I have an AC regulator, bringing it down to $200-300 a month.
(2) Xeriscaping my yard. I talked to tt about it and he was iffy on me just turning my water off, so I ordered some books from the library. I don't have any money but I want to start a five-year plan to get rid of my lawn.
A week ago, I was driving home from Dr. Wittenberg's after declaring myself cured (I'm cured every few months and a New and Improved Jessica appears) and I started thinking about lawns.
Jeff is making a xeriscape plan and drawing up rock layouts for the front. We're keeping the backyard for the cats, but I also eventually want to rip out the grass in half of it.
DEATH TO LAWNS!!
(1) Installing solar panels, which I seem to remember runs about $30,000, is done with a home equity loan, and pays for itself in 10 years. My electricity bill is over $400 in the summer but I get rebates because I have an AC regulator, bringing it down to $200-300 a month.
(2) Xeriscaping my yard. I talked to tt about it and he was iffy on me just turning my water off, so I ordered some books from the library. I don't have any money but I want to start a five-year plan to get rid of my lawn.
A week ago, I was driving home from Dr. Wittenberg's after declaring myself cured (I'm cured every few months and a New and Improved Jessica appears) and I started thinking about lawns.
- Lawns were invented in England where the grass friggin' grows naturally and native plants are used.
- You Can. Not. have a lawn out here without an in-ground automatic sprinkler system. Period. People stress if their houses are in escrow too long because the lawn will die forever if you don't water it at least every other day.
- In the desert, we have to plant this super-hardy bristly grass that can survive our direct sun and heat. You have to live here 20 years to own a tree that provides any shade. Shade grass is soft and invites lovemaking. Desert lawn grass pokes you and gives you rashes from the tumbleweeds that sprout in it.
- I am deathly allergic to the tumbleweed sprouts yet I manically pick them to get them out of my lawn. I have to cover myself head to toe (pants, long sleeves, etc.) to do anything in the yard so that I don't die by itching. I have to cover myself in this manner whether it is 60 deg out or 112 deg out. I have to hop in the shower and scrub down as soon as I have come in contact with the lawn.
- Jeff gets sick from the exhaust and grass particles whenever he mows the grass.
- I pay about $90/month for water in the summer months because of my grass. Why did we import an English country tradition to the freakin' Mojave desert????
Jeff is making a xeriscape plan and drawing up rock layouts for the front. We're keeping the backyard for the cats, but I also eventually want to rip out the grass in half of it.
DEATH TO LAWNS!!