First up, the yard that is quickly becoming a never ending money pit....we hydroseeded on the 15th and are starting to see some growth...mainly mold/moss in the back though!!! So much for the daily rain showers being an asset! So frustrating!!! Last night was the first time we watered back there since we put down the seed 11 days ago and it is just slimy back there!!! I guess we're back to square one...
Here's the front, I still have high hopes for it. We're starting to see some growth and I'm hoping we have a pretty thick cover by the time it freezes (we're probably just a couple weeks away now, its getting down below 45 pretty regularly during the night).
I was fascinated by this hydroseeder. Considering the space it had to cover, it didn't seem like a very big operation. No comments on our paint job on the fence!!! We'll fix it eventually... Our poor trees though! Mom had them up against the house when we moved in and Dave dug them up and replanted them. They probably would have recovered fully had it not been for the moose that came through the following winter! The one on the left is an apple and the one on the right is a lilac in case you can't tell! ;O)
Here's the way the back started out!! It rained so hard that night and the following week that I thought it would wash it all away. Its still there just pounded in the dirt and still wet!!!
Just a goofy shot of Dave doing his thing...
This is the one successful thing we did accomplish...the kennel!! Let me tell you, our little Houdini (sp?) isn't getting out of this one! We lined the whole thing with that landscape paper to keep the weeds out (so that they wouldn't grow up around the wire) and then stapled chicken wire to the 4x4s around the edges of the kennel. The 4x4s are then screwed to the fence and the chicken wire which runs down the back of them and then onto the ground, was covered in about a foot of gravel (we may have bought too much!!). If that doesn't stop him, we're going to go ahead and put the electric fence back in (its strung along those yellow posts) and of course, we upgraded that to the horse wire instead of just the dog wire. He knows it if he hits that let me tell you...you can here him scream all of the way inside the house!!! The turd did however figure out how to flip up the gate closure and let himself out that way, so we have cinder blocks holding that closed. Figures he'd find a weak spot!! This took the most time out of everything by far!!! Of course, shoveling wet gravel into a wheelbarrow after it's rained on it all night (making it like 10x heavier, I swear!!) tends to do draw out the process!!!!
Last Friday, we took Owen to see the Walking with Dinosaurs show that came to town. I can't imagine how much it must have cost to get these things up here, they're huge!! Owen loved it and so did we, although, it's definitely geared towards a slightly older audience. I wasn't going to take any pictures, but, Owen was taking some with my camera and I decided I might as well share what he and I got. I took my old camera with me which doesn't have night photo capabilities, so, these are kind of rough, but, you'll get the idea at least.
This flying dino (you'll have to ask Owen what it's called!) was dropped from the rafters and then they had video screens up (see upper right of photo) to rein-act what he looked like flying in his natural environment. It was pretty cool!
The lighting was kind of funky, so most of our pics look like this one.
This one gives you an idea of the size of these bad boys...that's a grown man standing next to him. You can also see the stand that these things moved on, Dave and I were fascinated by how they did it. His legs moved to look like he was walking too, but he's definitely supported by the stand and that's what truly propelled him. Even their eyes blinked though!!!
In my opinion, this T-Rex was the best one! She was so loud!!! To give you a little more perspective there are at least two sections of seats behind her and the light you see in the back, thats people standing above the lower mezzanine seats. When she stood up all of the way, her head was as high as the first row in the second mezzanine.
These are pics just from the second half of the show, I didn't take pics of anything from the first half. Owen had an absolute blast and wanted to go back the next day. Although, the night after the show, you could tell he was totally overstimulated by the whole thing he kind of had a glazed look for a while and just did not act like himself! It was pretty funny!
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