What's Happening?

Conservatives always talk about how the government is taking our freedoms away, but they almost never talk about how big corporations do the same thing (forced arbitration clauses, foreclosures, overdraft fees, GMO food, etc.)

 

We're in for some heavy rain and storms this afternoon and evening.

I need some inspiration to get excited about doing some housework. Maybe I'll come up with yet another plan to move some furniture around. I don't mind cleaning that isn't just mundane.

 

Lil' Myster definitely has teeth now.

I found out the hard way. He almost pierced my lip.

 

It has been raining here all day today too. It is cold and yucky but I'm happy my rose beds are getting saturated because I need to finish weeding the violets tomorrow and theyre so much easier to pull out of wet soil.

Since we have a lot of gardeners in this thread, have any of you guys had any experience with getting rid of violets? Is it even worth it to try? Their root systems are intense and impossible to get out completely. It took me forever to weed a little 3x2 area a few weeks ago and new violets are already coming back.

They're pretty in small clumps. My plan is to just plant more and varied plants in the beds so the violets will have less room to grow.

 

Get a rabbit, lol

The kids pull them by the handfuls to feed to their rabbits.

 

I have wild rabbits... they haven't diminished the wild violets at all.

Not that I recommend chemicals but even those don't control violets very well. I think those violets and cockroaches will survive a nuclear strike with no problems.

 

I love violets, but Meliai, have you tried covering them with landscape cloth, then pine straw?

 

They run on a tuber network... They would just escape to the edge of the cloth and then overgrow it.


I do like them in measure though.

 

Ten-thirty at night and I decide to start moving furniture...

 

Hubby had to rescue me.

I was moving this massive, think Great Dane size, heavy metal dog kennel, when it shifted and caught the skin of my forearm between two eyes that hold the sides together. I honestly could not have gotten out of that by myself.

I'm so glad it didn't break the skin.

I just have a nice pinched up, stinging place on my inner forearm near my wrist. It's about the size of a nickel.

 

I like them in wooded areas, they also grow around some trees at the edge of my backyard and I like them there, but they've taken over my rose bed completely and it looks so ugly.

I think I'm going to plant border grass and a few perennials between the roses to limit where the violets can grow, and then try landscaping cloth and pine straw.

The roses are bordered by brick but somehow the violets have started growing on the outside of the brick border too. Little bitches.

 

Ty said the grow like runners.

 

I just finished my violet weeding for the day, my technique has been to take a shovel and dig under their root system and basically remove the entire top layer of soil to get their entire root system. I know I'm wasting my time because they'll be back in a few weeks but oh well. Now I'm off to the nursery to buy some plants to plant in their place!

Sorry about what happened to your arm Aerianne, that sounds painful! I'm glad it didn't break the skin

 

The ice I put on immediately helped so much that there is barely a mark there.

What we fight here is Yellow Bell/Forsythia. It runs across the ground.

When my first husband and I bought this place we had no idea they did that. We planted a couple down each lot line in the front yard. They have become insidious now, lol

 

I just saw this video.

The man has trained his bees to make honey from Weed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9KJilO3izw

 

We loaded up the bookcase headboard style captain's bed and mattress; we took it to the donation box up by the grocery store.

I'm so glad to be rid of that monster.

A friend gave it to us years ago when I wanted it as a bed for the grandkids but we've outgrown the need for it.

I had it as a daybed in the sitting room but no one used it there either.

It feels good to rid of that heavy clump of stagnation in my house.

Happy Trails, Old Bed!

 

Full Moon... What else?

 

Thanks for reminding me.

Now, I have the time to gather my boxes of crystals for putting outside (i. e charging them).

 

Wow, you have a place you can donate mattresses to? that is cool.
I have been similarly working here.....i finally got many of the boxes out of the smaller shed into the kitchen full of dishes and more pots and pans...I just did a box of pans and pans the other night from there, and now there is another huge box of them...all good ones...stainless with copper bottoms and real iron ones....(this is all of the stuff from my mom)...none of her stuff is shit.
i cannot fit in any more dishes or pots and pans into what I have in my kitchen, so i have to go through ten boxes in the kitchen, and take what I might want to keep out of them, and box the rest for the bigger shed now. I cleared one monster sized box out of the little shed....of a huge stereo system in many parts, and just bagged that in two huge carpenter tool bags for the garbage being picked up on Monday. The cassette part did not work, if I remember correctly.....turntable part got damaged by movers...huge speakers, etc...so it will will be good to see that all go. How much stuff am I supposed to keep here......? It is too much...everything, in every category is bursting at the seems. I also found a box of unsued lightbulbs and had to fit them into where my unused bulbs are. I am running out of room here for everything....

I want to get two single bed mattresses and box springs out of the huge shed to make room , and sadly my mom never used the beds. they are new. She only slept on the couch......but I am going to have to hire someone to come and take them away, as nowhere can we donate beds here, even if they are new.

i am so glad my smaller shed is pretty cleaned out of these boxes...What is left in there is papers and photos and books and letters, which i do not have time to go through millions of those things in each box. My brother is going to have to help there.

 

We can't legally donate mattresses, either; but I put the whole bed beside the clothing donation box. People that drive around looking for free stuff will come by and take it later this weekend. I did that with a little bicycle a couple of weeks ago.

Try doing a search for de-cluttering. There will be good tips about how much of what to keep and how to let go of things without feeling guilty.

The hardest thing I ever got rid of was the baby crib and all it's accessories. I had 4 little grandbabies at once. I was so sad when they outgrew it. I put it on a Freecycle page and another set of grandparents came and got it for the little grandbaby they were expecting.