Ever notice how, when you’re mowing the lawn, you have all this time to think and sometime in the course of doing the back lawn, you finally figure out how to solve the world hunger or the Iran problem, but by the time you finish, you forget? Walking the dogs... Especially the late night ones under crystal clear Rocky Mountain skys. Sans Nobel Peace prize, at least it was a heck of a walk... |
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As for the yard... if it werent for the weeds, I’d have no green! |
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You have seriously frightened me with the level of detail that seems to overlap within our two lives. I have considered each of the items you mentioned this past week. |
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"But I’m sure she thinks that is because she has managed to catch me everytime just before I did that."
You nailed it. |
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And how do they always manage to put the tool you need in some place that is perfectly logical, provided that you live in some alternate reality? Why not routinely put tools close to where they’re likely to be used? My wife is not happy unless all the tools are place in the ’right’ place, which is always nowhere near where I’ll be using them. |
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"My wife is not happy unless all the tools are place in the ’right’ place, which is always nowhere near where I’ll be using them"
Actually they will be exactly where you want them, once, for about two weeks, until the next reorganization or cleaning cycle. Eventually everything, especially furniture, will be everywhere for at least a week. |
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Get some chickens (law permitting, of course) to take care of the June bugs. Heck, as kids we use to catch the June bugs and throw them into the chicken coop and watch the chickens go after them.
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OMG! if only a deer would wander onto my property. I’d have that sucka on a grill in no time. BTW, my wife thinks I am an idiot, but she thinks I am a damm sexy idiot. |
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JorgXMcKie, that’s exactly the opposite of what we have in our house. I’m always trying to put things away where they’re used and according to the frequency of when they are used. My husband is the one who constantly "organizes" in ways that make life more difficult. He will spend hours putting the cans of the least commonly used food in front of cans of the most commonly used food, because then they are sorted by size and/or color. He’ll arrange my business’ products so that the most often ordered items are underneath bins of the least ordered. My sewing scissors end up in a box underneath piles of the fabric I need to cut. He also has been known to sort laundry by type of clothing (pants, shirts, etc) rather than by color, although after I spent many tedious nagging sessions explaining this concept to him and showing him how even brand new white shirts can turn pink when washed with red dry-clean-only tops, he eventually was converted. But I still haven’t been able to adequately explain to him the principle of organizing according to use.
McQ, of course your wife thinks you’re an idiot. This is because she’s really smart and you don’t do everything her way. But if you do everything her way, she’ll think you’re a moron. Idiot or moron: take your pick. ;)
If it makes you feel any better, my grandma once sent my grandpa to the store to get fat-free ice cream when they had been married 40 years. He came back with sugar-free ice cream because it was on sale and the fat-free wasn’t. After trying to explain to him that not all "-free" ice cream is the same, she turns to us grandkids and says, "Forty years I’ve been sending that man to the store, you’d think I’d learn!" And they loved each other very, very much, and for several more years she was able to unsuccessfully send him to the store, until he passed away last December. |
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I wonder if you could get the deer to develope a taste for June bugs.
Have all the kids in the neighborhood make June bugs pets. Tie a string to them and fly them around, like I did a hundred years ago. |
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McQ,
As a new homeowner here in ATL, I’ve been forced to learn most of these things the hard way. "Oh, my beautiful grass is now a dirt patch? I guess I should have aerated it and bagged the clippings instead of mulched..."
I’m finally starting to learn enough that if I plant something, it’s got at least a 25% chance of surviving. Hell, I’ve toyed with the idea of planting kudzu. Sure, it might be the devil-spawn of all plants here, but at least it won’t die, right ;-)
It really sucks that I have this beautiful yard, that I have big plans for what I want to do to improve it. But 90% of my time and effort is just spent on maintenance, so it doesn’t all go to sh*t, which means I get far too tired to actually complete the projects I *want* to do... |
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It really sucks that I have this beautiful yard, that I have big plans for what I want to do to improve it. But 90% of my time and effort is just spent on maintenance, so it doesn’t all go to sh*t, which means I get far too tired to actually complete the projects I *want* to do... Ahh! the joys of being a happy homeowner. |
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Enjoyed the reflection.
About the birds, try some Tanglefoot from your nursery it works great for disruption of the squirrel highway on my fence rails.
Before installing deer proof fencing, I used "Deer Scram" with very satifactory results.
http://www.nurseryman.com/searchdata/www-deerscram-com.html |
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Brad
Try planting some kind of mint. Great stuff, the only weed I’ve been able to turn loose on the other weeds and accomplish something with. The one plant the city can run over with their mowers in the creek(ditch) out back and STILL come back, and all that despite being abused by (normal Texas) drought conditions.
I originally planted it so I could make Mojito’s and Mint Julips.
My wife, who is obviously related to everyone else’s wives here, or went to wife school with them....made me take it out of her flower garden, so I set it free out back of the fence.
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Brad,
Try more topsoil, fertilizer and Bermuda grass. You may have that notorius Georgia red clay not too far below the surface. You should have your soil tested. |
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