Housing Woes

Living in government housing, we are constantly rolling our eyes at the various policies and other enforcements. We moved into government housing this spring, into a brand new house, with the promise that we would be getting sod in June. We were looking forward to this, as everything was muddy after a late spring snowfall. Well, July came before the landscapers began their work, and they did indeed lay sod...just not on our entire yard.

In an effort to save money, the government hired contractors to lay sod on half of our yard, while planting seed on the other half! Since it was late in the season before they began their work, we would have preferred a yard that was entirely seeded!

The summer passed, and the seed finally grew in, although you can see definite lines where the sod ends and the seed begins. Just when my husband had our yard looking great, we found out that they are going to dig our yard up! Sewer or cable lines--I'm not sure which--but something is wrong underground, and next season we will be back to square one--no yard! What was the point of laying sod or planting grass, only to dig it up three months later? Aighh!

Now that I've vented, I will say that despite nuisances such as this, we are very thankful for our government housing! We have a wonderful house and a friendly neighborhood--one where every house will soon have the same dirt pile in the yard, without a trace of our beautiful lawns of the summer!