last sunday, we had a mission: buy a weed killer to clear out our front yard and then plant grass.

i daydream about how nice it will be to have a yard of *gasp* grass! last year, our yard was nothing but dirt because of the extreme drought our area was in, and now that we’ve had good rains, the only things growing are weeds.

we headed to lowe’s because we like lowe’s. we go there for all our home repair needs. at least we did. that may change, though. when we arrived, we quickly found the employee working in the garden area and explained what we needed to do. he laughed and said, “you can’t grow grass.” he said that with the odd/even day watering schedule, we wouldn’t be able to water enough for grass to grow.

that bummed us out, but i thought picking out flowers to plant in my flower beds would cheer me up. we asked about flowers that can grow in the shade, since the flower bed under our living room window doesn’t get much sun.

“colors don’t grow in the shade,” the employee replied.

i explained the situation and told him that my mother-in-law has flowers growing in the shade in her yard.

“how many times do i have to tell you, flowers don’t grow in the shade!” he shouted.

i was taken aback by that and said, “you don’t need to talk to me like that.” then, i called joe away and told him i had found flowers that grow in the shade.

after talking to a manager, we left and headed to home depot where we were told that bermuda grass, which is what we want, *loves* the month of june and that this is the perfect time to plant it. we were also told that it only needs to be watered 1-2 times a week, so the watering restrictions wouldn’t have any effect on it.

take that, lowe’s man. i think we’ll be going to home depot from now on.