I bet you have never heard that the grass is always greener on the other side. I have to say to you, if that is what you believe than that will always be true. I am so surprised in how many people jump from thing to thing their entire life and never end up finding what they want and they just keep going from thing to thing. Even worst, I am sick and tired of people saying that when they retire they will live the life they want. That is a lie and when you retire nothing is going to change for you.
This is what I call the grass is green on the other side mentality. When I purchased my first home I learned something that I didn’t know. Grass is really hard to make green. We moved in at the beginning of summer. The home was vacant and the lawn had been neglected to say the least. I had to figured out how to get the water on. Remember that I live in Utah and unlike some places nothing grows unless you put water on it. Needless to say I had to figure out our watering system so that I could try and revitalize my new grass that I thought may be completely dead. There must have been thousands of weed everywhere and the grass was so dry that when you’d step on it and it would crumble like ash.
After running the water on it every day for over a month some of it started to look green again. I was getting excited about it but there was still a lot of dead spots, there where areas where it was dirt and the weeds were overgrowing everything. I had to mow it like crazy to keep the weeds down. I started adjusting all the different sprinklers to different amounts of time some I would do for 30 minutes others I would do for 60 minutes. The dry spots started to look better and the dirt sport started grow some grass after I had purchased seed from the local store and planted it. The more water I gave it the more the weeds would grow. I had to keep dropping more and more seed because the birds would fly down and eat the seed before it could take root.
“THIS IS CRAZY!” I said to myself. I started to have lawn envy towards my neighbors. I thought can it really be this hard to make my grass green! I thought for just a second that maybe it was impossible to get my grass as nice looking and as green as others that I had seen. I even thought that maybe that grass was greener on the other side of the hill. Don’t we all say that too much! The grass is greener on the other side.
Finally I started to ask around and I had some people tell me that I need to call a lawn service company and they will bring weed killer and fertilizers that would make my grass beautiful. I did that and it made a world of difference. They came in and gave me insight that I didn’t know. They started to work on the lawn. They agreed that it was pretty nasty. After sometime it got better than it started to get worse again. I thought how in the world! I called and they sent a guy out to work on it more. He said that I was cutting the lawn to short and watering it too much. NO WAY! I thought how could that possibly be the problem. I put my blade higher on my mower and low and behold it helped.
Now I have gone on for far too long about my grass. But I wanted to make a point and that it is sometimes very difficult to make your grass green and that it takes time, hard work and a lot of adjusting of things. Now don’t forget this ever! You make your grass green!
Once you realize that the grass is not always greener on the other side but that you make your grass green right in your own backyard that will change your life.