Three Weeks Later: Making Grass

Update on the yard.
So we went to Home Depot. I got the soil. Put one bag onto the ground then put some grass seeds. That did  nothing. After a week, still nothing. So sad.

Any way Mom and Dad got quotes from two landscape contractors.
One said $5000. The other said, $8000.
I'm not sure if they got what they both wanted, but we went with the $5000 job.