In the neighbors lawn... I bought my house about 2.5 years ago,
before which I lived in a condo that didn't require any sort of lawn care. Before that, I hadn't mowed a lawn since I had lived with my parents before leaving for college. As a matter of fact, I had grown
quite sick of lawns by the time I left for college, which makes it harder to understand how I got a lawn fetish. Ok, maybe fetish is a little to strong a term, but I can't think of anything better.

Suffice to say, some of my neighbors, particularly one just around the corner, has got an amazing lawn... When I use to drive by on my way to work (I take another route now) the guy would be out smoking a cigar and watering his lawn... I despise his lawn... I wanted my lawn to look that amazing...

And so the obsession began. I first tried to hire a company to come and fertilize/spray my lawn, but to my dismay their weed killer killed all the weeds, which was most of my lawn, and then said I'd be stuck that way for the rest of the year as I wouldn't be able to seed until fall. the hell you say...

Two 50 lb. bags of seed and enough water to fill a couple of pools later, I got my grass back before the end of the year...

Round 2

The next year, I over seeded and aerated the soil, and threw out a bag of fertilizer... That seemed to do ok, but I was still behind the curve...

Round 3

Well, that brings us to now... I've over seeded again, aerated, and am now on a regimen of fertilizer that I get at the home depot... I'm hoping that this is going to be the year... but I still drive by
Mr. Cigar's lawn to check it out every now and then, and continue to plot my takeover of kickass lawns...