Too many Sassafras seedlings -- HELP -- I'm losing the battle
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Phal help - am I losing the battle?
Comments (21)Oh me, oh my, I DARED disagree with - the supreme "enlightened one" - Howard. TWICE!!! and now just look.... Oh Howard please, calm down, you'll blow a fuse again and go off on one of your seemingly endless, aimless rants. LOL.....you are so predictable ....even down to your recruiting techniques. (I've been around a wee little while myself - how bout that?) Give Google a rest, put the dictionary down, and listen up.... Don't worry yourself about my "cachet". I prefer the real life variety, as opposed the imaginary kind derived from - a message board - on the internet - at GW - for God's sake. How very sad. Oh, and speaking of imaginary, where were you master, with all of your words of condemnation when "mike_gee" (your "boy")was spewing "his" vile nonsense on the innocent, all the while praising and applauding your every utterance? You were grinning ear to ear weren't you? Enjoying center stage. You even named (nothing to do with nominating, of course) "him" one of the "enlightened ones". I would think someone such as yourself with a "ten year" seniority/superiority would have spoken out against such a thing. You said nothing, a man in your position(?), you said nothing. Pettiness, mean spirited, uncalled for....... indeed. Please, you and your posse own those words. Don't fret over my memory either - It's all there in black and white my friend...........copy and paste, and a few other little goodies.... But .....you know what....it's all OK Howard.....who cares? It's a message board. That's it. That's all it is. So, get with the gw high-ups (the ones on your level) and have me banned. Report me. DO IT! Get that rock out of your shoe Howard.....LOL...... I've nothing to loose. **I** choose to be done with this now, Howard. I've spent all the time on this I intend to. Rant to your vast numbers of adoring fans if you wish. This "Big Girl" is taking her **hardball** off the court. "Rock the grow, Brother"...See MoreLosing a 20 yr battle with a weedy grass, any ideas?
Comments (13)I used newspaper and mulch to supress and hopefully kill a teaberry vine that my ex-husbands grandmother planted and the family has tried every possible way to kill since. Established in 1918 the plant is probably resistant to nuke, roundup, every possible farm weed killer including straight deisel and soil sterilant. 1 inch of newspapers and 1 inch hot turkey manure on top, and I left it there for 3 seasons. If it didnt kill the plant itself, it did make a barrier that the plant could not reach across. It did not hurt the neighboring blue spruce nor the white lilac tree. The teaberry did not become sucessful at tearing the south wall from the rest of the house , recracking a 2 foot foundation, or taking down a 6 foot cedar post and slat fence. It killed the orchard grass too which is what your grass sounds like. I did a 4 foot swatch against the fence and slept the deep sleep of one that has made an organic method work when nothing else has. My grandfather used a similar method to kill prickley pear cactus in his pastures when I was a kid, going back to when he was a kid. He used pig manure and old rugs or carpet. He liked the orchard grass because it was better than anything else. In his day carpets were wool and burlap, both natural fibers....See MoreI'm loosing the battle, water vs. heat
Comments (17)The weatherman is Austrian but has no other accent. My guess he is several generations here. My German grandmother always talked about downshprouts on the gutter, but she was tough on people who didn't speak english. But she wasn't on TV influencing children we are trying to teach proper english. Oh well! I'm half German and 1/2 Irish, and if you think German is hard try Gaelic. Ever try to read Baewulf? We sure are drifting aren't we! My hostas leaves aren't falling off yet. Neither are their leafs. Just covering my six! (lol) Les...See MoreTrying to mix marbles and I think I'm losing mine
Comments (61)I think the pencil liner could be just the thing to cover your gap and allow you to do something else later if you choose to. Just a little piece of trim, and you can buy a few a see how that looks to you. I just had my outlets moved up to avoid a listello, and while I am glad I didn't cut the lines of the listello having the outlets a little lower was nicer for access and fewer cords draping around (on the coffee pot and grinder, which stay plugged in for the most part). There may be a limit to how far they can be dropped due to framing issues, but it may not be a big issue to lower them if you choose to do that. I love how Rhome picked out that issue with tiling that wall: Snuggling the outlets into the tile will solve a big part of the visual issues any tile on that wall that is lower than the outlet will have.. Your sunflower tile is amazing, and has some interesting properties to my eye: I think the tiny tiles mosaic looks great with it when the triangle is up on the sunflower, and I don't like the mix of the two mosaics with the triangles to the side/square tile on top. I just keep looking at it because it is sort of fascinating to me. I think it is unlikely that you will tire of the Ming green hint of color, but if you have any question about that I would stick with the Thassos/whiter marble. I am guessing that the bit of color softens the look in your kitchen and is so perfect with the color of your walls right now that people find the combo very soothing. But I do think you would be happy with either. And it may be that the orientation of the sample has influenced which "color" people like. Just my two cents. I think you will love either for a long time. And nothing will happen with your drywall in the short term, so if you need some time to live with it just on the stove wall I would take that time and not fret....See Morerockguy
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