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you may be surprised later by odd bits that managed to survive.

there is no want beyond the animal that is annoyed by a noise and wants to make it stop and squish is the most direct and non-thinking way for that to happen... in the past when Mom had to get me up to go to school (after she'd gotten my siblings up) she would often find me burrowed under a...

progress! :) hang in there!

agreed, a greed! me wants empty quart jars and cases but can'ts have as we don't have enough rooms precious...

i didn't plan on being outside as much as i was out there but i guess i'm in a little better shape than i thought. will keep at it again tomorrow. i've not looked at the north garden for a few weeks. it hadn't started sprouting too much yet back then. now in half the area i planted the...

same here, i do have to spend some money here or there on hoses and shovels but so far not too much else other than some seeds i'd like to try out. this year, so far, i've spent more money on sending seeds to others than anything else as a way of paying it forwards. i like sharing beans with...

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...