“You don`t own the house, the house owns you!” Who ever said this must have lived in (New Jersey?) suburbia.
We experience the joy of having a house especially when the garden season starts. This means: now.
The weekends do not belong to us anymore, our back and front yard take them. At least in the afternoon. In the morning we are with Jakob at his soccer games…This is one side of living in suburbia. You do not go to the city, you cut the grass when the weather is good.
In the beginning we wanted to keep it simple: no plants, just the lawn. But the house looked a little naked, so we put a few plantings in the front. Meanwhile the deer ate some of them so we replaced them with other, more resistant, we hoped.
It is nice to look at a few flowers while lying in the deckchair…Ha, ha ! Who has time to sit in the deckchair when there is so much work waiting?! And because we like all kinds of grass we put some of them along the house. A few flowers here, a few plantings there. And so on. Our “simply grass” project developed after two years to a “garden project”. And the worst thing: we even enjoy it! At least until the fall comes… Did I mention that we are surrounded by trees? Leafy trees!! Yeah, exactly, tons of leaves. 
But it cheers me always up listening to the many lawn mowers in our area. Then I know: all slaves are paying their duties to their homes- and they love it! Like we secretly do, too.
i like looking at a well manicured green lawn - it seems calming, and i get a lot of satisfaction seeing my hard work pays off. same for you Isabella, i can hear it in your blog. be thankful though you don't have the dreaded 'grass burs' so common in the southern and hot states - like Texas. if you don't get rid of them you can't walk barefoot on the grass. do you have the same deer (family) showing up all the time? have you given them names yet? any plans to put in a vegetable garden? Paul W.
ReplyDeleteHi, Isabella, Paul Weirether forwarded your blog and we have enjoyed reading it. Paul and Bill are my cousins. We especially enjoyed your blog about the bear in your yard. We recently saw a short clip on one of the morning TV shows about capturing a bear in NJ and returning it to the wild.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Kathie Fuss I am related to the Weirethers through my dad, Bill McDonald. I have been married to Ron for 37 years. We were career educators who lived near Baltimore for 26 years, in the same house. Five years ago, we retired and bought a house on the Eastern shore of Maryland, near the Chesapeake Bay just off the Chester River on a creek. It is a very different lifestyle, with lots of geese in the winter and eagles, heron, and other waterfowl in the summer.
We have remained friends with the person who bought our old house in Catonsville and have been to a couple parties there. It is nice to visit the old house but the "Country life" on the shore is now our life. You cannot go back!
We will enjoy checking on you Blog from time to time. We find it very interesting