. . . LANDSCAPING

My first adventures in landscaping were on my second house.

I did the worst sprinkler job imaginable. All of the sprinklers were in the center of the lawn. Okay, it seemed like a good idea at the time. I was planning on having a lawn with rounded corners. When the money ran out, I settled on the traditional lawn and the corners kept drying out. Imagine that.

My next sprinkler job was done for a neighbor and that one was done right. I am hoping that I can use what I've learned for my current challenge.

The Current Challenge:

The previous owners of this house apparently had the front yard sprinklers done by a friend (not a bad job). The problem is that they filled the yard with the extra sod from several neighborhood jobs and did not prepare with top soil. The result is a bumpy, patchy lawn with bare spots from shallow rocks. The back yard is unfinished and in my opinion will be easier than trying to fix the front.

This will be the subject of subsequent posts on this blog as it will take a while to complete.

Here are some "before" pictures of the project.

. . . Caesarian Sections

Okay, I am not even pretending that I have any experience in actually having a c-section. This is more my adventures in witnessing, caring for, and nurturing the healing of said c-section. For some reason, I was under the impression that the skin was flexible enough that the doctor could cut an incision about the size of the vaginal opening and then stretch the skin to the desired width or at least to a large enough width to recieve a baby through. Boy was I wrong. There is actually an incision about a foot long, I kid you not. I did not want to see the blood and everything during the operation so I stayed on the safe side of the curtain. Well, once little Matthew made his debut, I was over at the table where they were cleaning him up ("wow, his head is round", I observe, like a complete nimrod.) It was then that I had the experience I had not counted on. Natalie and I were talking back and forth about the baby. I looked back for a minute and observed THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CURTAIN. I saw Natalie's uterus lying on her stomach. Needless to say, I will never forget my adventures in Caeserian sections. By the way, they did put the uterus back and Natalie seems to be keeping her guts intact nicely.