[2Jedismom]

This is a picture of a sand burr. The spikes are microscopically barbed. They hurt worse coming out than going in. We literally pulled up 4-5 huge (moving type) boxes full of these. We couldn't use gloves because you had to be able to feel the roots to make sure you got it all. I used a butter knife to loosen them, then just prayed and reached in and pulled. Each stick I got left a little lump that stayed for several weeks. It was agony! After several weeks of pulling, my fingers were a lumpy mess!

[Overtaxed]

Then of course your neighbors let their sand burrs go to seed and the seeds land in your yard.

[HairOfTheDog]

What a horrid looking thing that is!

We have an ouchy kind of sticker weed here too, but I don't know what it is called.

I used to be quite lawn obsessed at my last place... constant watering and mowing... Had to have perfect diagonal lawnmower tracks in the lawn at my prior place. I enjoyed working on it quite a bit.

I don't have a lawn so much now... I sortof stopped caring about it when I moved here and had more other work to do. My yard for the dogs is about a 3/4 of an acre, and it is entirely treed with firs, so it is too shady for good grass. It is kindof a combination of grass, moss and weeds that I just keep mowed by horse power and tidy up with the trimmer.