Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Mad Vrs Mad's Back Yard Part 4: You Need a Plan.

Mrs. Science has what you might call a slight allergy to nature. When certain, greener, forms of nature rubs up against her she tends to get itchy. Unfortunately our back yard is full of green, itch inducing St. Augustine grass.

Being reasonable people, Mrs. Science and I, have tried to peacefully coexist with our grass. The grass, however, has refused to stop causing my Mrs Science "the ichies".

We considered water sanctions against the grass, but feared the collateral damage sanctions would have on our banana trees. Also, we doubted we could get Russia and France onboard.

So instead of sanctions we proposed a compromise: Since the grass refused peaceful co-exist with us, we would divide the backyard into two independent regions: Northern and Southern Backyardistan. The grass would be free to govern Southern Backyardistan as it saw fit provided it would submit to regular mowings and the occasional IAEA inspections.

For a week there was no respones from the grass. Then, in an entirely unprovoked attack, they gave my wife a terrible case of itchy legs and some welts as well.

We had no choice but to declare the grass a terrorist organization and go on the offensive.

Since beginning "Operation Backyard Freedom", the Lawn Hog and I have been making the a long hard slog across Northern Backyardistan, slowly driving the grassy green menace from our side of the yard. We will not rest until we have freed Northern Backyardistan from the yoke of grassy tyranny and established an itch free democracy in it's place.

But freeing Northern Backyardistan from the grassy menace is only half the battle. Like Franklin used to say, "It's your back yard for as you can keep it". And we all know that the grass never sleeps.

We also knew ('cuase we watch CNN from time to time) that we needed a plan if we were to have any hope of converting Northern Backyardistan from an repressive grass based terror state into a stable, patio based, liberal democracy.

The grass may be tyrannical, but it keeps erosion and drainage problems in check. We had to be prepared the meet those challenges, and the others that would come, once the grass was gone.

In short we needed a plan.

So we went and got Google Sketchup and went to work.

Pretty soon we had our first pass at a plan for our back yard. Take a look!



Also. Get Sketchup. It's cool and it's free. You can istall it in minuets and once you do you can examine our back yard from every possible angle.

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