Backyard Transformation
My mud-cratered moonscape is gone.
Cracked and caked.
Fit for only scorpions and Gila Monsters
Sudden rainstorms create mini floods
Muddy rivers forming riverbeds
Rapids towards the low ground
Pooling as a lake around my neighbours drain
Dozens of bales of green come in.
Unrolled as carpet.
Laid down over the scarred land
Burying the dried riverbeds
Hiding hard cased mud tracks
Leaving them as modern fossils
Beneath the lawn
And now a new environment.
Gone is the moonscape
Gone is the desert
I’m along an Irish meadow
Alongside the rough of a golf club
No more sense of ancient exploration
No more models of weathering processes.
Out come the water sprinklers
Soon will come the soccer balls
Little screaming kickers
Dogs lounging in the green
Robins mining for slithering lunch
Neighbours strolling barefoot
Drink in hand
Inquiring about that which sizzles
Upon your grill.
SATURDAY…
--- Work is pretty slow… after work it’s Karl’s Bachelor
Party… meet him and others for supper and a few drinks before heading home for
early bed.
SUNDAY…
--- Didn’t sleep very well last night so it’s a tired and
slow day at work. One of those where 12
hours feel like 16. Sunday night TV
after that.
MONDAY…
--- Night shift is fairly busy. Ball game as well tonight. The team is playing quite well.
TUESDAY…
--- Another night.
Slower than last night. And I’m
pretty tired as work going on putting down the lawn around my place makes for
noisy mornings.
WEDNESDAY…
--- Walk for more than an hour again today. And I have a back lawn now. Have to break out the water sprinkler
starting tomorrow evening I guess.
THURSDAY…
--- A busy and expensive day. Bring the car to get the tires changed and
have a general service. While waiting, I
walk to the mall and do some shopping.
The walk is about 40 minutes each way.
So walking there, walking around the mall, and walking back take just
over two hours.
--- A new tire is needed.
Had a flat in the fall that I inflated again and it stayed inflated after
that. But when they went to put the tire
back on the rims, they found a screw that had punctured the tire so badly, it
couldn’t be repaired. Besides the tire,
I buy a new baseball hat at the mall… some socks there too… and new sneakers at
Runner’s Room.
--- Tired once home… but have to put the sprinkler on… I
have a lawn now. Needs lots of water
while the sods take root.
FRIDAY…
--- Go get blood tests done… again. Bloody liver.
Hopefully this time is the charm.
--- Groceries and a half hour walk after that. Then the rain comes and I’m in with the TV.
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