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Complaint: Weeds grow too fast and in too great a volume. I like landscaping but it's literally impossible to keep up with the weeds in anything beyond a tiny area. Can't afford to pay somebody a second salary to maintain it, so I'm the only available weeder, and with other projects I'm not even available period. I need to find a way to sidestep the problem, like find really nice-looking weeds and plant them, or raise rabits that eat them or something, I don't know.
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did you know today is sunday?
it is easter sunday.
typing 1 handed, got a nosebleed again. 57 years i hardly ever had a nose bleed. lately its every day. waiting for it to stop so ise can go for my walk. mebbe its the pollen.
Concrete.
Haha!
Maybe I should clarify what I find asthetically pleasing in landscaping... Actually you joke but when I was a kid there was somebody who had a cement front yard. The sidewalk and path to the door were red cement, the "yard" was green cement. It was truly horrifying, even as a young child. But probably weed-free.
Don't count on it. Weeds are very industious! There has to be an edge to the concrete slab...the weeds will happily grow there. If it develops the tiniest crack, weeds will grow there. They even plant themselves and thrive in sand!
Dana
An app for a powerstrip?... I looked up Carp but all I found was a fishing game.
Be careful of Internet of Things devices which require unknown apps... often they are big security risks and if the manufacturer goes out of business, often the device gets bricked.
no pizza deliveries today. guess they takin the holiday seriously.
Easter dinner is rice krispies tonite.
snap crackle pop.
i cant tell which port is the usb 3., based on file xfer speed, where i plugged ain't 3.
...that was my brekkie (Rice Krispies - well, the generic store brand that doesn't cost 4$ a box).
Finishing up the last of my homemade sausage & garlic pasta sauce with "flutterby" pasta for dinner tonight.
Non Complaint: My second vaccine shot is schedueld for tomorrow. Already pre-reregistered so no having to go through all the registration questions at the site. Sometimes computers do make life simpler.
You pay $4 for a brand name, here we pay about $6 to $8, depending on what cereal we buy. On top of that we pay about $6 to $7 for a half gallon of milk.
Out of curiosity, where are you that milk costs $12 - $14 per gallon?
Probably Canada!
Considering the prices there, I was upset when I heard that a Veggie Delight from Subway costs the same in the US and Canada. But a meat sandwich costs several dollars more than its US counterpart. Basically, in Canada, you get an all-veggie discount. In the US, no such luck.
I am in Canada and we don't sell gallons, we sell 2 litre's which is half a gallon, and smaller. Because of currency exchange our prices will always be higher then many places. If the new Nvidia card is $1000 in the US, then in Canada you can bet it will be more like $1300, and that can change depending how the currency is set and that changes everyday.
...does Canada have a VAT? I know Australia does.
Is it a remote part of Canada? I would think something basic like milk would be easily trucked in from whatever dairy farms produce it and it should cost far less than that normally. But I could see something very remote with only fly-in access (flying milk would be horrendously expensive), or if you live in a tiny town maybe it would be cost effective to truck milk to a small number of inhabitants or something. Or maybe you've just found a new side business... milk import for everybody in your town.
and randomly googling gives 1$canadian = 80 cents US , so to me that's actually about $9:60-$11.20USD; a bit less but still extreme, given my most recent receipt said I paid just under$2 USD for a gallon. You can pay $3.50 if you try to buy it at a convinience store instead of the grocery store.
...milk from small dairy/organic farms can be as much as 5$ per half gallon here.. I've been considering going that route as there are a couple independent markets within walking distance of where I live that sell milk in returnable glass bottles instead of single use plastic. Milk in conventional wax board cartons (without the plastic pour spout) does not stay as fresh as that in bottles with a good cap.
I pretty much only use milk for cereal and some cooking so I need to buy it in a smaller amount. Half gallons seem to do OK, but a gallon even in a plastic bottle, would go bad before I ever used it up.
I have a mean mean gnarly weed wacker. Ryobi, with a metal blade extension. Takes weeds right down to the ground. But it can also remove concrete and toes. So if things get out of hand, I'll use RoundUp. Actually, I use a no-name version with the same active ingredient; Glyphosate. Glyphosate gets a bad rap, but it's dead-effective on weeds.
You need a few things for Glyphosate to work correctly:
1. Healthy weeds. Seriously, healthy weeds die faster and harder because they take up the glyphosate faster than weak or struggling weeds. So water them a day or two before you apply roundup.
2. A warm day in the mid-80s (or hotter), low winds, and at leasts a few hours without rain expected.
3. A good sprayer that gives good aim. You must spray the foliage for it to work. Spraying the woody trunk of a plant or spraying the ground around it will not be effective at all because Glyphosate must enter via the leaves in order to systemically deactivate the photo-synthesis process of the plant. Basically, that's how it works. It stops the plant from being able to make its own food from sunshine, and the plant subsequently starves to death. It's evil, but at the same time, elegant.
4. Patience. Once you spray, let the sprays dry before watering or allowing pets in. If you accidentally spray something you didn't mean to kill, then hit that something with water before the spray dries on the leaves. After drying, it takes 5 full days for browning, 7 days for "crispy-dead". Subtract days for hot weather with rain, and add more days for cooler weather or dry conditions. Crispy-dead is easiest to remove with a string-trimmer weed whacker.
5. New seeds are always present in the ground, so once you kill off the living foliage and the current crop of plants dies, the new plants will germinate once they start getting rain and sunshine. So you will need to come back and re-apply roundup in 3-4 weeks to that new generation of weeds.
6. Careful use of Roundup and similar products can really cut down on your work. I've gotten pretty good with the sprayer, and can kill the weeds but not the pretty plants, grass, or flowers right next to them.
7. I will use Roundup in the vegetable garden, but only when I need to kill a lot of weeds that are not near plants that I want to harvest for food, Or in the autumn when I'm getting ready to turn everything under for the winter anyhow. Roundup breaks down quickly and dissipates in the environment. If there are weeds close to living vegetable plants, I'll just till the weeds under, pull them by hand, or use the steel-bladed weed-whacker and take them down to the ground.
Watching Made for Love now. I wanted to get the book, but then I read the description and it sounded pretty gross (one guy has a dolphin fetish), so I thought the show would be safer. So far, the show is a little gross too, but pretty funny. Basically, it's about the head of Gogol (spoof of Google), implanting a chip in his unwilling wife's head so he can mind-meld with her.
Also just finished Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. There's a lot of filth, which I had forgotten about. There's also no scene with the Lawyer and Lucy where the hotel floor kinda swims away in an acid haze. Must have imagined it. Not much of a plot, but the camera effects and lighting were interesting. Felt like a took a few hits of acid myself.
I heard Canada is the home of the clam juice. Tim Hortons and putein.
i'm just waiting for my package to arrive. The package contanis electronics that cost me $70 including shipping and handeling. The store didn't give me tracking information.
Wow. So my CPU arrived today. I am lucky I heard the car door close and looked out a window. Dude just placed it on my front porch steps, among the many flowerpots(I put there to let people know that door is not the one we use), snapped a picture and pulled away. Left it sitting there, in the rain. Didn't knock or anything. Had to run from the door that is used on the side to grab it. Now just waiting on my mobo, f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5
Package companies often have a place on their website where you track their deliveries and there is often a place where you can specify instructions about where the package is to be dropped. I use that feature to let them know to drop it at the side porch, not the obvious front door of this house. I'm assuming that that information gets forwarded to their paperwork and maybe even to their little handheld gizmo.
Lots of controversy about "Round Up".
woken by the sweet melody of the ice cream truck. i slept 13 hours straight.
chore today. have to wade thru the medical bills and decide which ones to send money to this week.
mind boggles when i think about the average american family medical debt is