Yeah, it's my fault that it's rained for the past six days, blame me: I planted grass seed where the driveway used to be and prayed it would grow.

Planting grass seed in late August?

"That's preposterous!" Jeff said.

I'm far from gloating: warm September and October might kill it yet. But I hope that a little something is better than nothing at all.

Now if I can just keep the kids out of it.