Oh, Thank God! I thought it might be YOU! :)
No Diana, I have spent the day pulling up some groundcover the previous owner of my house planted all against my house.
I had someone to help today, and I used a mattox (sp) to dig it from the roots up. That stuff is beautiful, and when I transplant it somewhere where I WANT it to take over I’ll love it again. But right now I despise this plant. It is crawling up the side of my house (some kind of ivy) and holds moisture, mosquitos, spiders, snakes and a lot of frogs.
We have had a drought here all summer and spring. I really feel bad for the frogs, but I am sick of trying to pull weeds around this ground cover and have a cloud of mosquitos attack me. I spend so much time doing this I am covered with bites (despite wearing clothes that cover me and using repelant). I am reworking my property to make it more maintenance free, I just can’t keep up with all the weed pulling.
I was very worried about snakes today when I was reaching my arms into this. I am not fishing as much as I’d like to be, and that is why my yard is soon to be maintenance free.
Specially since I am the one that has to pull weeds around this and watch some mean looking spiders jump out at me!!!