Before.....After

We tried, we really did. We re-sodded once, and then when that started to die, we tried to re-seed small areas. Apparently, 140 sq feet of lawn isn't quite big enough for two dogs. Well, it is big enough...if you don't want your grass to grow :)

So, after talking about it, and talking about it some more, we decided to go for it. Behold the new "lawn." It's 3/4" river rock, and we have to say, we are quite pleased with how it looks. Certainly more Palm Springs than Cayucos, but I think it works ok. It was a fair amount of work, but less than we thought it would be. The whole project, inlcuding running drip lines to the new plants took about 6 hours.

We still have the sprinklers in place and they will be running briefly twice a day to flush the toilet, as it were. The dogs have been using it just fine so far. We went with this size rock so that when we were picking up after the dogs, you wouldn't end up getting a bunch of gravel with the debris. So far, so good!