Zen And The Art of Landscape Maintenance

I paid someone to landscape my yard. There I said it. I still can't quite believe it, a sure sign that I am getting old and lazy. It has been bothering me ever since they started, and today it is done and I have to admit it looks really good. Still, I feel like I should have done it myself (except for the huge boulders) I didn't like they way they planted the trees or spread the rock and especially the clowns who put in the sprinkler system. I used to install systems back in the day at Green Valley in St. George while I was attending Dixie College so I know quite a bit about it. Way more than these guys, I suggested a training course to them "Irrigation 101 - Your Ass and a Hole in The Ground - A Comparative Study." It was bad, the leader was a fat lazy dude that rarely showed up, his crew were two tweakers and a pear shaped jackass that they called "Nipples" They could not dig a trench deeper than three inches. He did not have a trencher, he relied on his top notch crew to pick forlornly at the ground for hours on end with no visible result, it was agonizing to watch. Luckily the rest of the work was being done by a different outfit that did half of their trenching just so they could get it done. It has been a long week because I am here most of the day trying to study (online) and the whole process was a pain in the ass. They hydroseeded today which gives it a nice green color and looks kind of like a lawn so you get the gist of it. It's nice. I should have done it myself.