which_chick | (no subject)

Was pulling weeds in the field last night -- I've worked my way around from the fence bordering the UB field to where the excavator is parked uselessly, so I'm about half done. There's jimsonweed in the field and I'm uprooting it and removing the seed pods so that the damn stuff doesn't take over. It's poisonous and the horses won't eat it. Apparently the damn stuff got in the field in some round bale and then got scattered/tracked across the field. The seeds are heavy seeds that don't spread much on their own, so if I can get all the pods before they pop open and all the plants before they make pods, I'll have made a huge inroad on the damn stuff. It stinks to high heaven but is thornless and the plants uproot easily enough.

In other, unrelated news, I need some suggestions on giant-robots-with-explosions anime that is suitable for an eight year old boy. He's done all of Star Blazers, is working through Transformers (the "new" ones, I think). Brother-the-younger is thinking something Gundam, but I'm not sure if the explosion-to-political-crap ratio is high enough to keep him interested. Anyway, since my eye for giant-fighting-robots anime is not exactly tailored to the sorts of things that would appeal to an eight year old boy, I'm asking for help. Help?