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i don't ever recommend that black plastic stuff that is about 8inches tall, it's just not deep enough for a lot of the problem grasses/weeds like quackgrass or horsetail. 18 inches minimum. even a few layers of overlapping cardboard (use the plainest kinds you can find (no shiny stuff and...

two days of good enough weather to get outside as much as my body can take. plenty of projects to choose from and things to get ready for the season. i think today i'll get the north garden scraped and weeded as much as i can get done. i have the garlic in there to work around which will slow...

i just keep after it and eventually it gives up. my major concern is to get it before it drops new seeds or gets too big to easily scrape. last year in the north garden i had some that were 4-5ft across, it was so much more work to get those removed before they could drop their seeds but i...

you learn after a while which weeds you need to keep after right away and those that you can just get after eventually. quack grass in this heavy soil is no fun but after a few years i can clear it from an area and keep it under control as long as i have the time to scrape and work on the edge...

that's entirely reasonable...

i'm just annoyed by them to the point where i want to squish them (in direct proportion to how much it is morning).

i have no IQ in the morning. i just blink and want to hide under a pile of pillows and blankets until something more reasonable happens (like afternoon or a nap or pretty much anything other than morning)...

if i look out the window or patio doors i can see all the work i could do but gladly none of it is emergency level stuff or needs to be done right now. which is good because today is a day off for nothing at all other than what i want to do.

i don't always get enough sleep at night and so a break for a nap in the morning is often useful to catch up. i have a few chores here or there that are nice to get done in the morning and a bite to eat and then i often find myself wanting to zonk out for a while again. once you get on a...

um, ..., no, ..., no thanks! :)

once i found out about washing my face and rinsing out my nose when i've been outside during allergy seasons (spring and about half of summer) i've not had the sinus infections that i used to get every year. a big improvement. plus i don't use any medications either any more because once i...

another bit of weeding and burying bean pods and other worm food in a garden so that is nice to have that space back in my room here. it's almost looking civilized (not really but it is an improvement that i put some box tops and flats away so at least less visible clutter - plenty more still...

weeded a little and buried some more bean pods. sweated a little (77F!) and am glad the rest of the coming week is not going to be as warm. rains this afternoon and tonight in the forecast then cooler 51F tomorrow. got to see my first bumblebee of the season! :) i'm sure they've been out...

it is amazing how many weed/grass seeds can blow in on the wind. i've had this fenced garden area for almost 30yrs and some years it is kept pretty much weed free, but the past several years with the field to the south of us being full of grassy weeds and thistles i've had a real booger of a...

welcome to SS from mid-Michigan :) nothing wrong with Hugelculture, but pretty much it needs to be adjusted for your climate (wet or arid) and it is likely best done when you have a big enough amount of wood to bury and plenty of dirt to go over it. on the whole, i think it is a lot of work...

my basic problem with most things like that is that i'm looking at them in the morning before i'm fully awake.

yes, most of that sounds about right to me. the other point is actually deciding what it mean to be content (not letting others run your life) and also defending your time, space and energy as there are so many things that want to pull you away into whatever and at times that's fun, but i'm not...

true. but i could also argue it on the basis of various physical theories that include clouds, energy waves, uncertainty and whatever quantum BS you'd like to try to figure out let alone the various string theories and dark matter angles... yet that would all be useless quibbling instead of...

i could get out today and it was nice enough to even break a sweat! :) did some weeding and gravel picking out of a garden and buried some chicken bones and a bag of bean pods and then tried to get the poison ivy out of some bushes but i couldn't find any of it at all.

um... no... [edit, ok, yes, you got me :p ]