Well, since I wrote up this draft for the post, I found another way to handle this weed garden from hell - roofing shingles and rocks. We know someone re-roofing, so we hope to get some of the old singles soon. Until then, guests will just have to enjoy the weed fest going on.
We are due to have 4 days of rain starting today (again). Sunday we had planned to piddle around, but guess what? We took off south to pick up a new radiator for our 19 year-old's car. While we were there, my step-daughter called. She gave birth to our 3rd grand child - a boy. We drove north and made a visit to the hospital. What a busy weekend.
I don't have clean house slippers to work around the house today. Sigh. Thanks to Jesse. He's been so good off the leash, and in plain day light I just go out with him. However, he smelled a dead rabbit in the road and went straight for it. He's back on the leash after I ran through the sopping grass, saturating my slippers and socks. My slippers are drying after a good washing. As for that dead rabbit? Hubby went out and shoveled it off into the field north of us. We later watched a vulture having it's meal.
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When I was weeding my raised beds yesterday, I was unhappy to find the small brown ants having a convention in one corner of a bed. I've never seen them in the soil before. It's usually the bigger black ones. If you find a safe (successful!) way to get rid of them, let me know, please.