Yesterday and today several men spent hours cutting all the weeds and saplings cleaning up the Water Retention System at Fountain Hills Subdivision in Kansas City, Missouri. It looks fantastic!Did you know it's illegal to dump grass clippings and sod, oil or dumping of anything into this system? Sure is, and it carries a $500.00 fine if you are caught or reported as having dumped in there.The residents along the Water Retention System would like the system to keep working in the manner that it was developed and don't particularly want to look at your yard waste that some having been dumping.A better solution would be to put your yard clippings in those brown paper bags that you can purchase at Lowe's and put it out for the City of Kansas City to pick up when they have their lawn waste p... 09/18/2007

 I have this wonderful new lawn guy, Ben with Ryan Lawn and Tree.I used Ryan at our previous home and I've always been extremely satisfied with the quality of their lawn care.  If you have a question you can call and ask or if something is sprouting up and you want it taken care of they can usually be there by the next day!So of course when we moved I called them out within the first week.  With new sod you need to care for it and especially since where our subdivision is use to be farm land.... you never know what's going to crop up.This week I noticed some odd grass popping up and growing taller than my normal grass.  I call and Ben was quick to get to my needs.He came out and sprayed this "farm grass" and assured me that it would be mostly gone by next year, and totally gone when the... 08/02/2007

  Now it's rather funny, but at the time it was really scary!   Ken and I were sitting on the deck with the cat.  I'd just gotten up to put down the umbrella because we were seeing the storm coming in.  I commented as I looked to the left of the above picture...."Look at all that dust!"  Then it hit.   It had to have been a micro burst.  I threw open the door and yelled at the cat to get inside and then proceeded to hold on to the umbrella for all I was worth.  It blew some of my plants off the deck to the ground below and actually was blowing the b.b.q grill, moving it on the deck.   Now I know how Dorothy felt in the Wizard of Oz.  We're all safe and there was no major damage.  It went away as quick as it came.  Ken had just snapped these pictures before the wind began to blow and I ... 07/15/2007