Watching the grass grow takes more effort than you'd think

Right up there with watching paint dry, watching grass grow is said to be among the most uninteresting of activities. While I've never actually sat in the back yard with a ruler and a pad of paper to keep track of how much longer a blade of grass has gotten in the span of an hour or a day, it has struck me that grass grows a lot faster than I find to be convenient.

BY JIM KENNEDY, jkennedy@theaegis.com

August 13, 2012