Accept No Permanent Solution

I'm working on the grass in my front yard. Again. Present continuous tense. It used to be bright orange dirt a year ago. So it has gotten better, even green at times. The plot I'm working on is a 50x50 area and it's in the very front. the lower part of the front yard cannot be seen from the road, b/c it is at the bottom of the hill...And last spring this front plot was green perfection. A lush carpet of middle class splendor. All my work actualized. Neatly tonchered weekly with pride by me and not some service. Then the heat of summer arrived and I got busy doing something else. Call it life. I was worried about driving up the water bill. So, I didn't water it. I left it to deal with the heat on its own. It was drought resistant seed FGS! My neighbor, who also has a new house, put sod on his small front plot. He waters it daily, the sprinklers come on even when it is raining at 8am and 2pm. His grass is green, thick. And he has a water bill 5x's bigger most likely.

I dethatched, as Pepper watched the cars and the the squirrels go by...I spread new dirt and mossed the surface lightly and then seeded in the afternoon...waiting for the rain that is promised...it will grow I know...again...mostly it was fun to be outside today. Chickadees, rain storm looming...the rain...and then the wind...it took 4 hours to get it all done.