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[which_chick]

I'm doing laundry to hang out tomorrow morning bright and early. With any luck, it won't get rained on by the time I get home. I am optimistic.



Friday night I am going to dinner at The Springs with Heather. We are using up the 10% off gift certificate and also her gift certificate from Mark which she got for xmas. This should bring the price of Friday Night Dinner at The Springs down to something within the realm of our budgets. :) Expect a thorough and snarky review on Saturday if not sooner because we don't drop that sort of money on dinner without an extensive food-as-entertainment critique afterward.

Saturday is the last 4-H roundup of the season. I'd kind of like to go to that. All the people I know will be there and so will my big pickup truck. The horse show does not get over until some hideous hour in the evening but I may sneak out early with my *little* truck so that I can go get the dryer from Mom and Rod's. She's had it on the truck for a week and I haven't been out to get it yet. I feel guilty about that and thus must schedule some dryer moving action on the weekend despite being hideously busy. It'll probably be Saturday. (Note to self: call mom and schedule. Also get directions. She will probably want to show me around, feed me, and have me admire the chickens.)

Sunday Cass would like eclairs. She asked for them specifically and she's put the Ungratefuls in the field after they've done eating sans complaint several times now. Probably there should be breakfast eclairs for her. (Eclairs are so tasty.) I've bought the ingredients except for the milk, but it can still be a surprise for her because she doesn't know that I have.

I also need to mow the grass this weekend -- all the rain we've had has encouraged it somewhat and it is back from the dead, green, and growing. Other yard work is going wanting as well -- I weeded some in the garden today but more could totally be done if I feel so moved.

In the midst of all of this, I have no idea what the Absent Companion is doing for the weekend because he hasn't told me jack. That being the case, I'm going to go ahead and do what the hell I have planned. If he can work around the scheduled stuff, fine. If not, he can find other things to do this weekend.

I also need an hour a day pulling weeds in the stallion pen over the weekend. It's like exercise, only more productive. I've got the lower field mostly cleaned up (for the next two weeks or so) but the stallion pen is a trainwreck of weeds, containing not only the Spike-y Seed Pod Stinky Weed With White Trumpet Flowers but also the Nasty Thing With Reddish Roots And Needle-Like Spines and the relatively less annoying Easily Uprootable Thing WIth Burrs That Don't Come Out Easily. Since there's so much to pull out, it's going a lot more slowly than the lower field. However, I'm keeping at it and I do think that we can make significant inroads on everything but the Nasty Thing With Reddish Roots and Needle-Like Spines.

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[fooliv.livejournal.com]

Hope you have a pair of leather work gloves for the spiney weed. I've been waging a war on invasive thistle-ish weeds in my great-aunt's side-garden for the last two years, and they just keep getting worse. Are they maybe re-growing from root-tips or something? I try to get the whole root out, but these things come out with at least six inches worth of (white-ish) root as it is. The spines go right through cotton gardening gloves.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

I wear work gloves for all the weeds -- the datura makes my hands swell up if I don't. The spiny amaranth stuff is vicious due to needle-sharp spines. The only one that isn't problematic to handle bare-handed is the cocklebur.

Look on the internet for your particular invasive weed. Sometimes knowing your enemy can help you defeat it. Learn how it grows, propagates, seeds, etc. I didn't have proper names for any of mine until I googled their distinguishing characteristics, but knowing how they roll helps me fight 'em.