Posted on 08/05/2013 6:48:40 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, August 5, 2013 – mawkish
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
mawkish; adjective 1. characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin. 2. having a mildly sickening flavor; slightly nauseating.
Etymology:
1660–70; obsolete mawk maggot ( late Middle English < Old Norse mathkr maggot) + -ish1 . See maggot
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
I used to care more about my lawn...but Houston summers have cured that! Now I’d be happy with a stone yard....of course I can’t do that here but...
Were I there, I’d be supporting Ken as well. McAuliffe is little more than an overpriced suit hung on a 2nd rate turd.
I hope she is successful...
Thanks for the grade-the word seemed so perfect for that tired old plea...
Thanks-the yards here are close to stone-real, natural limestone-the soil here is only a few inches deep, where there is any at all. What trees and bushes grow naturally are what is there, and gardens are mostly curbed and filled with soil that is hauled in. I also live on a solid limestone cliff-good view, not helpful...
When I get rid of this place, the method to my madness of wanting a couple of acres or so-no cliff-is that I have a good chance of getting something with enough dirt to grow a garden without the expensive haul-in of more, and water it with gray water, like I do now-I’ll build a bigger and better gray water system, though-this one is primitive and very small.
The lawn grows. I cut it. Don’t much care what’s in it.
I’m thinking now I have about one month of cutting left for the year.
I hate crap growing on it, but when its cut I like it to look good.
But its damn near impossible to eradicate all the non grass crap. My neighbord dont do crap to eradicate their dandelions and other things, so I fertiloze, and enjoy the springtime lol.
So, to compensate,, I planted the Hydrangeas, and Elephant ears so eyes are drawn up from the grass.
And the kids demolish the back yard....as much grass as I plant they wear about a 60 foot circle in it.
The only place the grass looks good is all the way along the fence line.
Well we have curbs and flower beds that must be maintained and since I live on a corner I have a LOT of sidewalk and curbing to maintain.....and a fence line that must be trimmed too. While I like not having a neighbor on one side, the maintenance is getting old.
I saw some videos of people using a bag of garden soil - just on the ground with an X cut in the top, a few holes poked through the bottom of the bag with a screwdriver - seeds or plants set into the soil and watered....it was a survivalist type of video but the garden took off like crazy and the roots found something to grow toward. I’ve also seen the hay bales used with a small area cut out and soil put in there - pretty amazing for those in bad soil areas
I hated that. After my FIL passed and we were rebuilding here, I used to do her home, until she was here and it was sold. They had enormous curb space across the front and driveway side.
Winters were even better, becaise the sidewalk on the side street had huge trees that made the sidewalk distorted, so the snowblower was a PITA.
And they had a mailbox on that corner, so the municipal guys would do a single shovel width feom the street, so by the time I got to cleaning the snow, 3 dozen people had packed it down
Exactly. So why fight it? Who cares if there are dandelions?
My neighbord dont do crap to eradicate their dandelions and other things, so I fertiloze
What is this "fertilizer" you are talking about? I have no trouble getting grass to grow all by itself.
A +++ good one!!
The more I read on the subject of lawns, I am happier to live where a yard is just a yard of native grass and stuff, watered by nature, or hardly at all because it is drought tolerant, cut now and then, love the dandelions and all the other native plants-pretty colors and attractive to hummingbirds, butterflies and bees. The deer browse the stuff outside the fence, so it never has to be cut.
Living away from civilization has a few advantages.
Generally in the spring Ill throw down a bag or two of Scotts, that is SUPPOSED to eradicate crap,...and it usually does.
For a month.
We use hay or mulch out here, too-but we put it over the soil around the plants in the curbed gardens to keep moisture in and invasive plants out-cuts down on the time spent raking out weeds. I also use landscape fabric-it is cheap and effective.
Mulch is cheaper than hay here-it is sold for less than $20.00 the pickup load at the fire station. Hay is needed as feed for livestock, so it is more costly.
I’ve got to go out soon and spray down the stuff growing in the driveway. Most of it is brick and stuff comes up through the cracks.
Anyone who thinks nature is weak has never owned a home!
Is “Scotts” some kind of herbicide? We can’t use any of that, or non-ecosafe pesticides here-says so in the deed restrictions. This whole county, and the ones next to it are a sensitive area because of groundwater and the aquifer recharge zone-I don’t want poisons around me or where I grow food to eat, anyway...
Oh man, I can imagine a corner with snow! Of course we don’t ever have snow so I don’t have to deal with that but we do have the mailbox on our corner and the mailman leaves broken rubber bands and others throw their disgusting cigarettes on the ground, not to mention the dog poop that is left.....I’m ready to live in the middle of nowhere! lol
If the spraying/spreading of the stuff only works for a short while, why bother? Concrete walks keep out vegetation better than brick-they are certainly not as pretty-but if you believe beauty is function...
True Dave - it is amazing where things will grow - usually where you don’t want them! Down here we have to fertilize a few times a year because the heat is so tough on the lawn. Usually in august we need the nutrients just to keep the lawn from going into distress due to the heat and lack of rain. I hate to waste water but don’t want to have to put in a whole lawn next spring if this one dies. HOA’s are pretty strict about lawns down here - and no one wants to be the one house on the street that has a crappy looking lawn.
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