Today the WEEDS are DEAD!  HAHAHAHAHA!

My marching orders have been given and those bad boys are going down!  I had to see the forecast calling for a few days without rain and now is the time!  As a kid growing up here the garden was the big focus for dad and mom.  The ground tilled up and raked smooth, ditches hoed out and the seeds planted.  Always some day or (mostly) nights to water when it was our turn and then the dreaded weeds!  I didn’t like summer time because of the weeds and it seemed like that was all we did all summer long…water and pull weeds…sometimes we got to hoe the weeds because the rows were so long!  I hate weeds.

No Grimace and I used to hoe and pull weeds and water it seemed like everyday all summer long and while we were doing that, we were dreaming about a cool mountain lake or stream and we would be fishing…but no…we had to take out the weeds and water the stuff.  And when harvest time came around, we still had weeds and some of them were higher than our heads…big old red root weeds.  But the corn and tomatoes tasted good.

And that is exactly why there is so much grass around here.  Grass hides weeds.  You know they are still there, but once a week you get to cut their little heads off with the mower..I like that part.  If you don’t believe me that they are still there, just let your grass die and watch what grows, even without water, weeds will grow and sometimes they are the pokey type..you know the ones that can poke a hole through your bike tire!  Or cause a great soreness in your heel if you should step on one!  OWEEEEE!  I hate those kind.

So now, I have them pretty much under control…I spray the edges of the lawn, around the raised garden paths and all through the “parking lot”…there are still weeds that would have to be pulled, hoed and raked, but that is too much work and besides in order to get to them I might destroy the asparagus patch…I let them weeds have their way.

Oh give me a spray….that makes the weeds go away….and I’ll be a happy boy all dayyyyyyyy!

Bears Butt

May 13, 2013