The New Hobbit Hole

[Overtaxed]

So you made a trip to Greensboro, huh. Did you stop in Raleigh for the $1.25 show of LOTR? :)

[Overtaxed]

Oh! I meant to add...Good Morning, everyone!

[2Jedismom]

Good morning everyone!

[g'nad]

Hullo...how are we all this mornin'?...sneakin’…

[Overtaxed]

I want to go back to bed...other than that, I'm doing okay!

[HairOfTheDog]

Sippin' my coffee and lookin around...

Gotta go to Seattle today. [mumble mumble]

How are you doin'?

Hullo! Good Morning!

[g'nad]

know whatcha mean...I had to pry myself out of the rack this mornin' too... Like g'nad always say: "Coffee good...morning bad..."sneakin’…

[g'nad]

Gotta go to Seattle today.

sorry to hear that... I hate going into D.C....try to avoid it, but I can't always dodge that bullet...

Well, at least there's coffee... sneakin’…

[HairOfTheDog]

I think I dumped twice the normal amount of grounds into the coffee maker. This stuff has quite a kick!

That'll help!

[2Jedismom]

Wait'll you hear this! I'm very excited!

When we moved into this house, we found that the yard was very weedy. There was lots of bermuda, running all through the yard, but it was overwhelmed with weeds!

The worst were sand bur stickers, but we actually crawled around on the ground, sitting on boxes and pulled them up...every one of them because mowing just spread the sticker seeds and we don't do weed killer. Weed killer wouldn't have rid us of the burs anyway. We pulled them till our fingers bled, honestly. But not we only see a sticker now and then.

Anyways, we didn't worry too much about the non-painful weeds, although I thought they looked terrible.

Yesterday, I was walking from the shop to the house and noticed something odd. There were great big squares of just bermuda grass. No (or few) weeds in the squares. I looked at it for a while and then started hollering at Steve to come see. I pointed out the beautiful green squares of bermuda and how the weeds went right up to the squares but then mostly stopped. Then I pointed to a big yellow square place in the yard where the boys pool had been and it had turned the grass yellow underneath. Shoots of green bermuda were coming back, but no weeds!

The boys square plastic pool kills the weeds, turns the bermuda yellow and when we move the pool, the bermuda comes back, but not the weeds! Now we've got a great big blue tarp lying on the grass back there, as an experiment.

[HairOfTheDog]

hmmm... Well good luck to you if that works on your weeds!

I have a round pool for the dogs, that I move around too, about once a week. Usually both the weeds and the grass recovers quite nicely where it has been.

But, In the places where I left it too long I have round spots with only weeds coming back and no grass!

[Overtaxed]

Let me know when you find something that kills bermuda grass. I can't keep the stuff out of my garden! Grumble, grumble, grumble....I'm in Farmer Maggot mode again!

[g'nad]

???? Hope you're right...but I got a sneakin' suspicion the weds will be back...for the sake of your hands, I hope they're gone for good...sneakin’…

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Good morning, everyone...

Hope everyone has a good start to the week! Or at least, a better start than I've had already... hate being late to work...

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

brrr! - what a cold place that is!

Lake Superior shore in January... (sigh)

I miss it...

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

We saw that too. I think it's part of MIB2

OK, cool. I tried finding some info about it on Google, and couldn't come up with anything. I was beginning to think I'd imagined it...

[HairOfTheDog]

Good morning Bear!

Time for me to shower and take a step toward leaving on time...

Wish me luck!

[g'nad]

Lake Superior shore in January... (sigh) I miss it...

I miss real winters too...tired of the pseudo-winters we get in NOVA...

[Corin Stormhands]

Good Morning.

[Corin Stormhands]

And again...well, as long as I'm here...