Growing Grass

With a house, comes a garden.
All the lifestyle programs of landscaped gardens with retaining walls, water fountains, Bali-themed garden...
That's what we don't have.

What we inherited was an overgrown, unmaintained garden.
Put it this way - just imagine a scene from Jurassic Park - and you get the picture of the dinosaur-sized plants surrounding the house.

Bit by bit - we chipped away - first ripping the house clinging Ivy.. and notorious weed-like trees, chain-saw some 2m high philedendrons. And most recently Mother-In-Law turned up and the amazing gardener in her unearthed plants, uprooted plants, de-weeded the place and we have a pile about 3 cubic metres waiting to be removed.

All the clutter and crap are gone.. and being the people who are just starting out with a garden and unsure how we are going to landscape the place;
Ben and I decided - we are going to start off by growing grass.

Don't Laugh... Grass is one of the hardest thing to grow.. especially to keep the one variety and make sure no weeds take over. Weeds can be so territorial.
In the garden, we have a variety of Kikuyu, Baby-Couch and Buffalo.
Right now, I'm leaning towards keeping the Baby-Couch -
I don't think its the real name "Baby Couch", but it is a smaller version of the Couch. And the grass doesn't seem to grow as quick, it keeps short.
Low maintenance - gotta have that.

Won't be long before I stop envying lawns of luscious green, just like Dick & Jane:)

A week in 2007

A week has been and gone in 2007.
And eek! I haven't even done my resolution lists....
But what I have done is calendars, diaries, planners...
World is getting organised around me.

What I should really be doing is living every day to its fullest.
Moments and minutes that ticks by - think beautiful thoughts even as I sit in the traffic jam going to work. Life's not about growing old, its about cherishing what we have & learning something new.

I was watching this show the other day - the population in Japan is ageing and this Doctor/GP is on a vocation to pass his philosophy to these ageing men and women on how to rejuvenate their youth - learning new skills, making new friends, at the age of 75 - is when new skill sets can be found again. And needless to say, he himself is an enviable example - at the age of 95, he is still consulting as a GP and encouraging youth-ism in a group of no less than 75 year olds. Oh yes, and he was doing some push ups too.

There is so much positivenss in the world - we should all embrace it as we enter the year 2007. To all you cynics - keep your pessimism in your pocket.