Chinch-y

Neither of us had ever heard of this, but Texas has this nasty thing called a Chinch bug.  They're worse than a fungus and when you get them in your yard they eat your grass, completely killing and practically uprooting it.  Unfortunately, our neighbor across the street had caught the chinch bugs and kindly passed them on to us.  Before we realized what the brown patches in our yard were, it was too late.  We now have to re-sod the entire front and back yard.  

Over the weekend Neal rented a sod cutter so that we could

do the dirty job of cleaning up our own  dead grass before

having new sod laid.  He and Mike worked all morning cutting

up our poor grass, and I worked with Neal the rest of the

afternoon bagging up the grass and raking the yard.

After we had completed the job.

Manual labor sure is exhausting!