The 30 Day Notice

For those of you who have never been to our home, our front yard is detestable. It is huge with not much landscaping, in combination with my lack of green-thumb, the existing plants are very sad. It is not because we like having the ugliest yard in the neighborhood, it is because the yard ranks very low on our list. The home-owner's association president has been just short of harassing us about fixing our yard. So finally, he brought us the 30 Day Notice- to have it up to "code" (totally variable based on the opinion of the judge) in 30 days or they will have a company come in and do our yard and bill us for it. Since we are not independently wealthy, Tim and I have cracked the whip on ourselves to get it done. On Monday and Tuesday, I worked in the yard all day until I had to go to work. Then, Tim got off of work, worked on the yard and picked up Jairus from the gym, took him home and made him dinner. Wednesday was raining, so a nice break for us. Then today I spent the better part of 6 hours raking and shoveling dirt, and shaping a landscaped "island" in the middle of the yard. I am hurting, and so is Tim. I admire those people who work so hard to have a nice landscaping. Now that I have worked for hours upon hours to make our yard look better, I am sure I will be more motivated to keep it nice. We just pray that when we seed the yard, it will take. We are not in any position to hydroseed. Praise God, we are physically able to do it on our own, I am certain we are saving a boatload of money. We have about 25 days left to fulfill the "code", hopefully we will make it with time to spare.