I ignored the household "To Do" list because they all bored me, I wanted to dig in the dirt or do something outside. I dug up more sod and planted more grass seed around the new garden bed. Ever since I discovered that growing grass isn't rocket science, I've been replacing our "weed garden" with actual grass, starting around the new garden bed. I didn't get started on it until mid-afternoon, but finished just as it was getting dark and dinner time. My method is simple. All I do is scrape up the sod with a regular shovel, sift out the dirt and any "keeper" rocks with a dirt sifter, then toss the sod. I ended up with a wheel barrow full of sifted dirt that I spread back on the bare patch, then seeded and watered it. Some weeds may get back in, but not anywhere near as many as there were before I started. Little by little, we will eventually get a real lawn.
Note: Reasons I sift the dirt.
Reduce the amount that goes into the yard waste (they don't want dirt).
Repurpose the clean dirt and save rocks for a dry creek bed we plan to make.
Save the worms for my wife to use in her pre-K class "wormery".
Look for artifacts.
Exercise. The sifter is placed crossways on the wheel barrow. I put a few shovel fulls of sod in it and shake it back and forth vigorously in a push-pull manner. The dirt goes into the wheel barrow and then I pick out the sod, rocks and worms left in the sifter. Time consuming, but for some reason I find it fun and interesting, kinda like panning for gold. May not be the most efficient way of doing things, but I'm my own boss so I do as I please! (With my wife's permission, of course. She's mostly content to just let me do my own thing when it comes to this.)
Patch that I prepared after I put the sifted dirt back down.
You can see how the other side is coming along well.
Seeds down and watered.
Artifacts found, nothing very interesting this time.
