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Is this Spring?
Today is a break between the series of storms that California has been enjoying(?) for quite some time now. And nothing else intruded on my Saturday, so I got in my standard long bike ride and then used the momentum (and dry weather) to tackle the first lawn mowing of the season and finish weeding the tiny strip of dirt between the sidewalk and the fence, while the ground is still damp and soft.
I have a strong suspicion that Someone (and I have no clue who) decided to do me a "favor" and sprayed weedkiller along that strip, because the weeds that were lush and green two weeks ago are looking very sad. (And it's not for lack of water.) Someone also did me a favor and did some patchy weed-whacking of the parking strip vaguely in the same timeframe. (Both the weeding and the whacking were on my tasklist, but kept being put off due to rain.)
I think I'm going to need to put a notice out on the fence explaining that I know they meant well, but I grow food plants right on the other side of that fence and I'd really appreciate it if they avoid poisoning me and could they please ASK before doing things to my property? (I should note that I am not an anti-weedkiller absolutist, but I use it very carefully and tactically. And *I* know where the food plants are.)
Today's yardwork has confirmed for me that getting some supportive boots for doing outdoor work was long overdue. I'd been trying to get by with cheap sneakers and the like, but my bum ankle is really unstable on uneven ground. Doing things like mowing on a slant were getting tricky. Ankle-high lace-up boots don't quite get me back to the equivalent of having a functional right leg, but they get me closer.
I have a strong suspicion that Someone (and I have no clue who) decided to do me a "favor" and sprayed weedkiller along that strip, because the weeds that were lush and green two weeks ago are looking very sad. (And it's not for lack of water.) Someone also did me a favor and did some patchy weed-whacking of the parking strip vaguely in the same timeframe. (Both the weeding and the whacking were on my tasklist, but kept being put off due to rain.)
I think I'm going to need to put a notice out on the fence explaining that I know they meant well, but I grow food plants right on the other side of that fence and I'd really appreciate it if they avoid poisoning me and could they please ASK before doing things to my property? (I should note that I am not an anti-weedkiller absolutist, but I use it very carefully and tactically. And *I* know where the food plants are.)
Today's yardwork has confirmed for me that getting some supportive boots for doing outdoor work was long overdue. I'd been trying to get by with cheap sneakers and the like, but my bum ankle is really unstable on uneven ground. Doing things like mowing on a slant were getting tricky. Ankle-high lace-up boots don't quite get me back to the equivalent of having a functional right leg, but they get me closer.