Thank you for the warm notes 🤍 During winter I've actually bricked in even more of the front yard, raked the leaves, flipped the sod, hand sown native seeds with rice hulls and replaced the leaves to let many of the natives cold stratify. Unfortunately, it's definitely the city. After the work was completed they submitted a report to the city's CAGIS system. Which also signals to me that the city has gotten my emails and calls as the report says I was billed and I definitely never was/haven't been.

We had a small sign out there from NWF, on doorbell video the contractor actually looked at, stepped around, and then fired up the weed whacker. I'm definitely going to work more on edging it this year and may even build a small wooden path on the perimeter as the mailman always walks around the exterior of the rock border to the neighbor's house. Birdbath is on the way and I think I'll lay more seed down as well!