The grass was laid down in large rolls of sod unfurled or as sod slabs fitted together like puzzle pieces.
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The sod was then stitched together with a special machine.
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Some lucky sod found the note in a Christmas card.
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And all for so much golf course, sod and bramble.
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To those who say I'm fat, I say sod off.
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He was, it seems, a clod in the old sod.
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Beyond the house were horses, then ten miles of sod farms.
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The film's end mirrors its beginning, back inside of the sod house.
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Or just leave the curmudgeonly sod at home in the first place.
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The squares of sod atop his plot had yet to grow together.
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She had gone to the sod farm before it was rolled up.
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The picture shows an outdoor restaurant table covered with a sheet of sod.
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Built into the surrounding hillside, it has a sod roof covered in trees.
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The entire process, including continuing weeding and sod installation, was done by hand.
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Until the 2000s, many families lived in sod houses framed with whale bones.
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Sod is best, Tisthammer says, but white rock looks better than soggy, brown grass.
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Not a single one of them even gave the clump of sod a sniff.
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"People don't necessarily want to go back to living in sod houses," he said.
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Basra Journal BASRA, Iraq — Fresh sod had been carefully mowed in the new stadium.
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It's in the country of the blind we find ourselves kissing the auld sod.
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" He found "no singing water, no green sod, no moist nook to rest in.
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"The Democrats were laying sod while the Republicans were cultivating the grass," she writes.
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We brought in sod to create more areas for people to stand and sit in.
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On weekends, he takes his family downtown to cheer the minor league Amarillo Sod Poodles.
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The home has been well maintained, with special attention recently given to the sod roof.
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It rises to a tower that can be seen jutting out of the sod roof.
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The league has several preferred vendors for its sod, including Bent Oak Farm in Foley, Ala.
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An accidental headbutt turned into a Mayweather-esque glove touch to knockout punch against Sod Kokietgym.
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Melissa Work's brother-in-law stayed behind to work on the last four palettes of sod.
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JDTLab Staged Reading of "What Would Nora Say?" by Miriam Hipsh, Ted Sod and Elle Tyler.
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Well, if someone did that in front of me, I'd just tell them to sod off!
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They bought construction supplies and hauled fresh sod and planters back to their under-repair homes.
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Why we clutched the dumb and tiny creaturesof flower and blade and sod between our budding fists?
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EAST HAMPTON "What Would Nora Say?" by Miriam Hipsh, staged reading with Ted Sod and Elle Tyler.
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Work typically includes things like laying sod, mowing, trimming, planting, watering, fertilizing, digging, raking, and installing sprinklers.
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As that happens, exquisitely preserved remains—clothing, sod houses, scraps of food, human bodies—are starting to rot.
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He went with an eight-iron and ended up by some freshly laid sod near the bunker's lip.
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West Coast Turf knows Levi's Stadium well because it has regularly provided the sod that the 49ers play on.
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Actually, sod you, I fancy giving that a whirl... 'Firewatch,' the Shale Slide trailer MD: Fight you for it.
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According to the San Francisco Chronicle, sod was laid down on Friday to help absorb water through the weekend.
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It's a rebirth that no one really wanted, but sod what you think, football fans, you're having it anyway.
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People wanted it for their homes: this moon grass, sod anticipating the space age's descent back down to Earth.
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His parents retired as the owners of Siebenaler Excavating, a landscape, sod and drainage business that was in Shakopee.
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Marty O'Donnell And there are still a few lines in there like "toady about," and "sod off," little British colloquialisms.
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It's umami, slightly sweet, slightly salty, creamy but not cloying, and—oh sod it—I'd say he's achieved his aim.
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The sprigs were then grown into one acre of sod and trucked 1,000 miles to a farm near the course.
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Sometimes, school board members, coaches and recruiters return home and call back to ask about sod for their home stadiums.
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Laborers lay grass sod, construct stone walls, and assemble the fanciful faux-stone sculptures favored by many of these suburbanites.
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But how did no one see the arm waving in the air, after it had laboriously burst through the sod?
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The firefighters and EMT&aposs helped without even knowing that Gene had "pawned his favorite gun to pay" for the sod.
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The roof is new, the garden hose is perfectly coiled, the landscaping of sod, wood chips and decorative rocks is neat.
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Historically, igloos existed in areas where permafrost meant there were no other building materials, like wood, accessible stones or sod blocks.
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As he finished removing the old grass and started installing a few rows of sod, he heard the roar of engines.
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"For about a year, I did sod all," he said, as the crew blasted "Shower the People" through the sound system.
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Lin said his laboratory, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, can explore the world without disturbing a sod of soil.
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"Sod the pressure cooker, all you need to get this turkey sizzling is a turn in the microwave," the product description reads.
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"All I hope is that whoever is working in the world of L.T.A. doesn't sod it up for everybody else," he said.
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Four children were installing sod in the yard while the mother watched from the door, and none responded when Martinez said hello.
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This is the eighth time the company has provided sod for the game and the first since Super Bowl XXXIX in February 303.
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Gabriel Sod Hoffs joined Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, the company's $80 billion hedge fund unit, as a managing director, Blackstone confirmed on Wednesday.
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Not all heroes wear capesFirst the Florida firefighters saved the life of a man who suffered a heart attack while laying down sod.
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His open-air museum features several reconstructed turf homes — rustic stone and sod-roofed dwellings that Icelanders repeatedly rebuilt and reused for centuries.
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The project, which can't start until April 22019, involves installing new sod grass and "resetting and replacing brick sidewalk pavers," among other tasks.
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"He cut out the middle of the field, replaced the sod, repainted it — and no one knew the difference by game time," Steeg said.
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You see tractors pushing dirt like crazy to build the mountain ... followed by a crew laying out the sod to complete the magnificent look.
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The torvak , or sod roof, was the common way to construct roofs for timbered houses in Scandinavia up to the end of the 19th century.
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Avila had been called up from the Double-A Amarillo Sod Poodles in order to give rookie starter Chris Paddack an extra day of rest.
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After breaking out in the 1999 comedy Two Hands with the late Heath Ledger, she eventually fell into Brad Pitt's arms in Troy (poor sod).
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He grew up in a cedar house in southeast Alaska and lived for several years in a traditional sod house north of the Arctic Circle.
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The edge of the blade is sharp, so you'll slice right through sod, hard soil, compacted roots, and tough weeds without much of a struggle.
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After it was rendered obsolete, sod was added to the top-level to insulate it for the latest weaponry, but the project was never finished.
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At Yankee Stadium, she stood on the roof when the electrical workers installed the lights and on the field when the sod was rolled out.
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Soon after the stadium opened, though, the field was ripped out because the improper composition of the sand underneath the sod left deformities on the field.
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Gene Work was laying sod on the property of his Bayonet Point home on Saturday, with help from his brother, his wife, Melissa, wrote on Facebook .
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The zoo has also shared that the twins are slowly learning about the world, having been introduced to sand, sod and a few inches of water.
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They've got your money, guys – holding up a sheet of A4 paper is going to make sod all difference to the business decisions of Stan Kroenke.
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When the first SoD was in development, the biggest community request was multiplayer, and State of Decay 2 will be launching with four player co-op.
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Similar to raising a barn, the community would come together to cut pieces of sod from nearby meadows, then place them on top of birch bark roofing.
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Instead, it seems that Google mistakenly redrew the borders of the country's Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary, and forget to close it properly, as Khao Sod reports.
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By contrast, fixing lead hazards at the Prices' former home was inexpensive: $1,000 for new sod, $1,000 for retouching paint and cleaning, state inspectors estimated last year.
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Artist Ewa Tarsia's grassy public sculptures "Cool Dot" were smashed during Winnipeg's Canada Day celebrations, with cantankerous Canucks cavorting atop the wood, compost, dirt, and sod installations.
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The clock continues to tick, counting down the days they might continue this routine on their land, in the sod house, as generations have done before them.
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Why be a miserable old sod when you could be a bloke waving a plastic sword around and wearing a leather kilt and a Sutton Hoo mask?
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In a bunkerlike show space on the edge of town, Mr. Browne laid sod, installed mature fir trees and piped in the sounds of crickets and birds.
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"EDP approached us when the economy was going bad for us, the housing market took a dive and sod production was cut more than half," Carter said.
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It certainly brought me back to my odd-job days while I was in university, stacking boxes in a factory or laying down sod for a new garden.
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The sinkhole steps from the briefing room on the North Lawn was filled in with concrete, the surrounding area covered with dirt and a fresh layer of sod.
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I drift away from the group and lean up against the grassy sod that covers the entire structure of the farmhouse to insulate it from the weather and cold.
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They said they came back to help because they "knew Gene was in serious trouble" and wanted to make sure the sod didn't die, Work wrote in her post.
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For each City honcho getting a daily Christmas delivery from Amazon Prime there was some poor sod out there in Nowheresville working a precarious warehouse night shift packaging stuff.
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This "sod cemetery" tradition began in 1962 when a Florida State professor challenged his team to bring back some grass from their match with the heavily-favored Georgia Bulldogs.
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The only difference with riders in his car is that Adam sends the audio from SOD into an Secret Service-style earpiece, filming between trips if proximity and opportunity align.
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"We should have our independence instead of being ruled by a lot of bureaucrats sitting earning lots of money doing sod-all," she said, using a slang term for nothing.
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Gene Work of Pasco County, Florida, was racing to get the sod down Saturday to avoid getting a fine from his homeowner's association, his wife, Melissa Work, wrote on Facebook.
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He transformed a hotel ballroom into an enchanted forest, carpeting the floor in sod, hanging fresh grapes from a trellis and borrowing cages of nightingales from the Central Park Zoo.
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That the Loons, as the team is known, had to tear out and re-sod the grass surface at Allianz Field almost three weeks ago would have been challenge enough.
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Maybe it's the unshakable enthusiasm of a supporting character—oh sod it, spoilers, it's the dog, Missile, who's amazing—that keeps me smiling through the game's (threatening to be) bleakest passages.
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George, for instance, helps cover the cost of replacing high-flow toilets—but nothing at the level of cities that, for instance, pay residents to replace sod with desert-appropriate landscaping.
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As the scene shifts to the interior of one of the sod homes, we are introduced to Noah Piugattuk, his wife, and his daughter who wake up for the day ahead.
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After the Mets clinched the National League East title in 1986 on their way to their second World Series championship, fans rushed the field and ripped up the sod as souvenirs.
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But neighbors said the thick sod of the front lawn had been put down by the children last fall, working at night under TV-style lights as their mother looked on.
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It costs about $1,500 per lot to put down sod, plant a few trees and put up a simple fence, and it "totally changes the whole feeling of a neighborhood," Mallach said.
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Every now and again some soppy sod reckons he's the first person in the world to think, 'Hey, you're not just my girlfriend/boyfriend – you're actually, like, my best friend as well.
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At the farm, Matte grew the sod to 60 acres, and it was planted on the golf course in 2014 by six local men whose only experience was working on soccer fields.
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Though Mark Hughes gets a bad wrap from some sections of the press, presumably because he's a bit of a miserable sod, he has largely overseen effective and successful Premier League teams.
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Typically, garden spades have slightly concave blades with a flat edge, and while not so good for digging holes, they are useful for cutting through sod, edging your lawn, or marking a trench.
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I don't know what it is with me and social media; it's nice and all, but then again it also has the distinct ability to wake up the grumpy old sod in me.
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Manager Terry Collins and his players inspected the jagged triangles in the outfield where new patches of sod had yet to take root and tested how the ball might bounce off the seams.
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Changing demographics, new technologies and evolving demands by residents on parks and libraries to be complex community hubs require that these places receive more than just a fresh lick of paint or sod.
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Since the Price incident, he said, the Guard has remediated potential lead hazards at the family's former home and 13 others on post – repainting, changing household fixtures, and placing new sod in front yards.
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Located on the main road, Highway 9, it's housed in an old sod-roofed log building once owned by Hallvard Bjorgum's famous fiddle-playing father, Torleiv H. Bjorgum, who was a silversmith by trade.
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A broad, snow- and ice-covered plain stretches horizontally with sod homes and sleigh dogs in the middle distance, and above the horizon a bright, low-hanging sun glows from the center of the scene.
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MILAN — On Sunday night in Milan, Thom Browne staged his latest collection for Moncler Gamme Bleu, a campsite fantasy complete with tents, a carpet of grass and sod, and a pair of helpful costumed bears.
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Two other Staal brothers, Jordan and Jared, also went from the family's sod farm in Thunder Bay, Ontario, to the N.H.L.; in April 2013, Eric, Jordan and Jared played on the same line with the Hurricanes.
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Their land is hard to farm, contains few minerals, and has almost no features but for sod brick houses, shepherds, and their flocks, along with wild herds of vicuña, a more graceful relative of the llama.
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Florida State's sod cemetery Most die-hard college football fans will never forget where they were for their team's biggest wins, but for fans of the Florida State Seminoles, those memories are literally etched in stone.
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If you like this sort of thing and are the sort of person who doesn't have anything to do until 3PM (and, let's face it, probably isn't awake yet, you sod) go and press play below.
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Each image offers a glimpse into a reality so fantastical that it gives the viewer a little jolt to remember that these mythic tableaus feature actual flesh-and-blood, stick-and-sod occupants of the planet.
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Conceived as a self-sufficient house, Holloway's system attempted to sustain itself by recycling its own waste and featured natural ventilation, a sod roof for insulation, and a wind-powered electricity generator, among other innovative elements.
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The poor, snowy sod, his face like a greasy nitwit caught with his hand in the till of the local inn, was stuck with nothing but the sound of his halting and disjointed internal monologue for company.
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The thick prairie sod of America's Great Plains was a rich carbon store until settlers tore it up for farms, leaving hundreds of millions of tons of topsoil to be blown away in the Dust Bowl years.
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Sometimes, the company lays its sod over stadiums' artificial surfaces for a week or two, for international soccer matches like the coming International Champions Cup, an annual preseason tournament that attracts many of the world's top clubs.
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Beneath the table, where guests enjoyed a casual take on the chef Hiroki Odo's signature kaiseki (a traditional multicourse Japanese meal), there was even a layer of sod — "so people can take their shoes off," said Werber.
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Later in the day we walked into a cluster of Sami summer huts, or goahti, beautiful sod-roofed buildings with wildflowers growing on them, and inside of one watched a woman make bread on an open fire.
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Wong was trying to run around the ball and get into position to make a perfect throw that has forever been relegated to the hypothetical when he lost his footing on some loose sod within the friendly confines.
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Sod Hoffs, who earned his doctorate in economics from Harvard, worked as a portfolio manager at Caxton, a prominent macro fund, for about a year and previously worked as a senior investment associate at Ray Dalio's Bridgewater Associates.
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Over the course of the summer, the company cut down trees, graded the yard, put down sod, put in a new gravel driveway, installed cedar fences and bluestone paths, added landscape lighting and planted evergreens, bushy grasses and lavender.
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"While he was having his heart attack, literally in and out of consciousness, he kept begging me to figure out the sod and have it put down because he didn't want it to go to waste and die," she wrote.
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The SOD plays host to the service's elite Counter Assault Teams which often deploy with executive protection details to respond in the event of an attempt on a VIP's life, while the detail quickly extracts the VIP from the area.
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The flamboyance and humor of Arnold in "Faroe Islands 2015" is obvious as he takes a little nap on a grassy hillock, his haberdasher-styled suit in forest green mostly obscured by a turtle shell of live sod piled over him.
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For cleanliness and to protect the area of the floor of your apartment that you are designating as the potty area, you can use newspapers, commercially available "pee pads" or even fake grass or sod patches, which can be delivered.
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There is an extensive enrichment program in place that allows for species appropriate substrates to be offered such as a swimming area, grass sod, wood shavings and natural trees/logs, as well as seasonal pumpkins and Christmas trees that are all veterinarian approved.
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Address 212 Warren Street, Battery Park City Developer Centurion Real Estate Partners and Five Mile Capital Partners River birch, honey locust and crepe myrtle trees surround roughly 1,000 square feet of sod on the 18th-floor roof terrace of this 168-unit condominium.
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Once it is ready, Tuckahoe's blend of cool-season sod is trucked to Heinz Field in Pittsburgh; to Lincoln Financial Field and Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia; to Red Bull Arena, in Harrison, N.J.; FirstEnergy Stadium in Cleveland; and Fenway Park in Boston.
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Pros: Very sturdy construction, sharp edge cuts cleanly through sod, compacted soil, and roots Cons: None to speak of, but a very small number of buyers complained that the spade bent during use Buy the Fiskars D-Handle Garden Spade on Amazon for $25.18
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There are gaming consoles with stadium-level seating; a tricked-out gym where trainers both real and virtual will kick your butt into shape; well-sod grounds where you can walk off your local, vegan, carb-free lunch or work wirelessly in the warming rays of the California sun.
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You toe rag"; "Oh, you... Tom, stop it; "You prick"; "Bog off"; "You git"; "You silly sod, Tom"; "Oh, you bugger"... these are just some of the brilliant things uttered by the unnamed dad in the video above every time his son shoots him with a Nerf Gun.
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Also on Monday: Goldman Sachs started to get cold feet about its good buddy Donald Trump; the House of Commons told Trump to sod off back to his lorry, mate; John Yoo, of all people, hammered him for "executive overreach"; and Trump's diet and exercise habits disgusted the nation.
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But with Kamikaze dropped just nine months after Revival was trampled into the sod by a gaggle of sheep, I remain impressed by an underrated album that left Eminem well behind such dullards as Queens of the Stone Age and Phosphorescent in the Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll that year.
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The bench has already been put together, by my wife's father, and he has set it behind the gravestone, so it won't be in the way of the cemetery keepers when they come by after the new year to cover the raw dirt above my wife's grandfather with sod.
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Frances Senska, my friend and role model in how to live the life of a dignified misfit, started teaching art at Montana State in 258 after serving in the Navy during World War II. She was a down-to-earth modernist, like an Eames chair upholstered in sod.
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And as in great basilicas of oldThe search was ever for a dream of God,So here the search is still within each soulSome seed to find to root in earthly sod,Some seed to find that sprouts a holy treeTo glorify the earth—and you—and me.
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In Southampton town, about 6,700 agricultural acres — mostly working, food-producing, sod, equestrian and chicken farms — are left, of which 4,500 are protected from development, said Melanie Cirillo, director of conservation planning for the Peconic Land Trust, a nonprofit land conservation organization that has helped protect 43,000 acres since 1983.
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So the government quashed its ambitions until the early 1990s, when the Department for Transport proposed two options for an expanded A303: Divert the road so it gave Stonehenge a broader berth, or bury it in a half-mile long cut-and-cover tunnel (essentially a trench topped with soil and sod).
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"Then these immense stretches of vacant ground below, will be covered with houses; the paved street will clatter with innumerable carts and resound to deafening cries," he wrote in The New York Sunday Dispatch, and yet the Croton works themselves would last "long long after we of the present time are under sod."
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And even though adults try to turn them against each other (I was paid per plant to destroy the so-called weeds, with a dandelion fork), come seed time, children can't resist blowing on the silvery tufted heads of dandelions so they can continue to ruin the fine sod of grown-ups.
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As the rescue attempt turns into a recovery effort, we jump back to the day that the newlyweds first toured the house, and further, to the construction of the neighborhood, when corner-cutting developers covered over a creek with concrete slabs, fill dirt and sod, rather than paying to have it diverted.
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Gaze upon Hazard as he exchanges pleasantries with nearly seven Arsenal defenders, bidding them hello as he carries along, pulling up fresh sod with his carefree stride, the ball on a tight leash: Look as he meets the goal mouth, and releases the ball, like it had just reached the gates of a dog park.
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An untrained eye would have trouble deciphering these oblong outlines of large carved stones set firmly into the sod, but Beno walked me over to an exposed example and explained that they were the foundations of dwellings that were shaped like upside-down canoes, echoing the attachment to the sea of the local culture.
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Buds furled tight along the branch, wet and new, a girl's soft hair, hard-soled shoes, rain against the pane and the smell of cut grass, loam and soil and sod, blossoms on the sidewalk, petals on our shoulders and days to spend, days to waste, hours sifted through our fingers like spilled sugar from the bowl.
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The suits the designer claimed to be reinventing in a monochrome show held inside the bombastic 19th-century Grand Palais — made over with sod and pendant black plastic fronds to evoke a nighttime field into which some young rowdies are headed — will most likely look pretty much like those from last season once they hit the selling floor.
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It's too far, so he records the string of information as a voice message when the SOD dispatcher repeats it, passing the tip to the 10 or so members of the NYC911News Whatsapp group, who, like Adam, all have some secondary line of work: a DJ, a real estate agent, a bike messenger, and a conservationist to name a few.
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Inside his dark grey Ford Fusion is a utility belt of tools: two smartphones clipped above the car's sat-nav and three dispatch radios running up to an antenna jutting out of the sunroof to increase their range, tuned to the frequencies of the FDNY, NYPD Special Operations Division (SOD), and the third swapping constantly to local precincts, the codes for which Adam has memorized.
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Thanks to Los Angeles–area officials (and voters) steadfastly refusing to throw money at a team to induce them to relocate, plus the example of the successful team-funded 49ers stadium in Santa Clara—successful in terms of making money, at least, even if the problematic sod may be an embarrassing disaster at the upcoming Super Bowl—Kroenke is agreeing to foot most of his stadium bill.
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