Category: General

Car damage update… I found out from Costi yesterday that the rack was “cracked”. No wonder it was steering funny. Well this is a problem because it’s impossible to get new racks… they’ll get a reman from VW or something. The saga continues.

It’s been a while since you’ve had a lawn update, so here you go! There are patches that are beginning to fade, but overall it seems to be faring pretty well. It seems like it’s still very fragile (e.g. when I rake it, clumps come out)… I’m not sure when it becomes “hearty”. Next year?

The sweet smell of freshly mowed grass! I took the trusty (rusty) push mower to the new lawn last night. Of course, I got home today and some critter had been digging in it! OK, it’s officially a lawn (just don’t walk on it)!

I provide the following before and after pictures for your consideration. The former was taken on April 4, 2004, the latter was taken today, May 19, 2007. Next week, with its first cutting, the grass will officially become a lawn.

Columbia University held its 253rd graduation ceremony today. Hooray! They say there were 40,000 people in attendance.

Here’s the lawn all covered over. It’s going to be hot on Tuesday so hopefully the grass won’t burn out underneath that black cloth. The helicopters are coming fast and furious.

Take a look at a digest of all the lawn-related posts so far.

No diploma for you! I recently found out that I’m still missing a bunch of credits (outside my major) to graduate from Teachers College any time soon. I’ll write to the administration to get the full details, but it looks like I’m a TC captive for another semester or two.

Today’s lawn post. There’s a big maple tree in the backyard and the wind is blowing all the “samaras” down into the grass. So we had to cover it over or they’ll clog up the lawn and kill it. According to wikipedia: “A samara is sometimes called a key and is often referred to as a helicopter or whirligig or a polynose.” I call them a pain.

Yes another post about the lawn. Get used to it because I can promise that there will be more. This is the lawn at the end of week three. Many people have said, “it looks perfect”, but I’ve included an inset so that you can see, in fact, it is not ready for romping and playing. Follow the link for a larger version of the picture for details. For a progression of pics in flickr from seed to today click here

On my way home from the dry cleaners tonight I smelled smoke and saw fire trucks out in front of Pizza Plus. A welder was doing some work this afternoon and had gotten sparks in the walls — it caused a big smokey mess. Basically the whole building is wrecked. I talked with Roz who says that they’ll rebuild.