Vent Blog?

Maybe I should just call this the Kawano venting blog. Sometimes, when things never seem to go right during the day I have no one to vent to....so I blog. Sorry readers.

Last year we tried growing a lawn. We live out in a muddy dirty mess and it would just be so awesome to have clean green grass for my kids to play on during the summer. Last year we cleaned up all the twigs, leaves and weeds and tilled in some fertilizer. We planted our grass but all our hoses were junk and we had just a tiny sprinkler. I would get out the old rotted hose and use my finger to create a spray and wet down the lawn several times a day. One day I decided to hook it up to the tiny sprinkler and went inside to let it do its job. A few hours later my mother in law knocked on my door and said that the hose detached from the sprinkler and flooded the whole driveway down to the round corrals leaving a muddy riving down the middle of our front yard and swept away all the grass seed. By time the middle of summer rolled around our lawn had a few patches of grass randomly scattered over the front yard, and that was it.

This year we decided to do it all over again BUT saved up to buy a new hose and a decent sprinkler. We worked and worked cleaning the front yard up, raking, weeding, and tilling until we had a clean canvas. The wind picked up shortly after and we decided that maybe we better wait until the next day so our seed didn't blow away. Next day we planted the seed raked it in and hallelujah it rained for the next few days! This was perfect! Today was the first sunny day and I called Evan to ask where all the new stuff was so I could hook it up and get to watering our new lawn. He said that the black hose was already hooked up so just to use that one instead. I got out the new sprinkler, hooked it up and it worked like a charm. I could just see in my mind how perfect our lawn was going to be. I ran into town with the girls to mail off a package and run a few errands. When I returned home it was like a flashback. Flooded lawn, grass seed being flushed away down to the round corrals. SERIOUSLY! Now I love Evan with all my heart but electrical tape does NOT fix everything. He taped the old black hose together with black electrical tape and it ended up breaking apart I'm guessing not to long after I turned it on and left. I did not even notice it or I would have gotten the new hose out and hooked it up. So now we'll wait and see whats left of the grass seed and if we'll have grass ...AGAIN!

So that was my grass vent. Onto my garden venting! The year before last I REALLY wanted to plant a garden. I bought seeds and started them inside my house and by time June rolled around I had tons of awesome plants that were ready to go into the ground. Problem...we didn't have a tiller at that time. We didn't even know anyone that had one. So I waited around for something to happen. Nothing...so sadly no garden that year. Last year we got new tiller at a yard sale and put all of our time into the lawn, so no garden that year either. So I am determined to have a garden this year. I bought my seeds, my little pots, and potting soil. I got them started last weekend and put into our front window where we get the most sun. Kimi has climbed up and dumped them so many times I have no idea if they will actually grow now! I guess we'll see what the next few weeks bring. (Does anyone else have this much trouble??)

Last and finally, pets. Since we already cram 4 people and our stuff in this 14x70 space, I do not want indoor animals out here. My Dad grew up on a farm where no animals were allowed in the house for sanitary reasons, so as you can imagine, that was the same rule when I was growing up. My mom did manage to get my Dad to agree to 2 poms but they were limited to one room of the house and no where else. If we lived in a bigger house and had a grass yard that the dogs could run around in and not track in poop and mud from outside, I would be more than happy to have them be inside. They do come in occasionally but not all day everyday. I have my two basset hounds that I LOVE. They are so fun and cute and lovable but Evans uncle has a conniption EVERY time we let them out of the fenced in area in the back, even if we are outside with them. Its just not a good deal. Well Evan felt like he needed a dog that could be his work dog to go around with him. I really did not like the idea because #1 we have 2 dogs already, and #2 I don't want the responsibility of the puppy all day because I've already got 2 kids and a house to take care of. I lost. We got a little blue heeler and he is soooo cute. But like I said...IM THE ONE WHO HAS TO TAKE CARE OF HIM DURING THE DAY! We've had him for week now and he sleeps in a box next to our bed, crying and whining all night long. When Evan is home he does all the work. He wakes up several times a night to take him out to go potty, feeds him, plays with him... everything. Well last night the puppy escaped out of his box and came back. Apparently Evan didn't notice so while we were all sleeping this puppy took 4 dumps on my $80.00 rug! Evan left for work, and I had woken up to get the girls their breakfast. Since evan didn't know about the poop I was the one to discover it..by stepping in it! I'm gagging and scrubbing and cannot hardly contain how pissed I was. This is one of my biggest peeves. I have kids crawling and rolling all over the ground all day in our house and I really do not want them in getting into any dog accidents.

Well now that I've gotten that all out I think I can move on with my day. Hopefully. I'm not sure if anyone else feels this way about anything or if I'm just a grouch. In any case I just hope things start going more smoothly. One of these days I will have something more uplifting and positive to write about I promise!