1 Thing...

 

I haven't been feeling that great for the last couple of days.  It's mostly been allergies, stomach & bathroom stuff.   Sometimes being in a car for a while can set me system off & I'll be in the bathroom all day.  Add to that all the burning, roadwork & humidity & my stomach was sort of doomed.  

Yesterday was big shopping for the week.  It's always a little more tiring.  We ate at place we hadn't in a while.  It'd changed hands & wasn't as good.  It'll get another try & that may be it.  It's too pricey to be meh to yick. 

Later everyone got mowed, including us.  The yard needed it, but it didn't help me out any.  I felt off for the rest of the night.

Edges of the yard needed sprayed.  It's about to get seriously hot.  I got myself to handle it this morning.  It is probably the only thing I'm doing today.  It may be the 1 thing I do all weekend.  It knocked me down pretty hard.

That's all for, take care.  I hate grass.

Cya...

Hot Dew...

 

It's going to be hot for the week, ugh...  Anyway, this will probably keep the lawn guy from mowing.  At least I hope it does.  We don't need dead lawn man on the yard.   That's not the look we were going for.  Not sure what look we were after, but it wasn't that.   More like too poor care what it looks like, just get it done.

I opted to spray the edges this morning & look for fire ants.  It turned out to be a lot more dewy than I'd expected.  Hope what little I did sticks.  Oh well, if not there's always the next round.  I hate grass.

Take care & watch out for the heat, it's killing people.

Cya...

Mowed, Killed & Sprayed...

The lawn has been mowed, weed-killered & sprayed for bugs.  Too bad this is a regimen that will have to be repeated often.  I wish it could just happen once a season.  

2 weeks from now the lawn will need mowed.   I might get away with not spray weed killer for a whole month.  The bug spray is a monthly event to control the fleas.   They say it's a 3 month application, hah!  That has never been the case for us.  In small print it says the bug killer can be reapplied weekly.  If it's a 90 day application, why would I need to do it weekly? 

It looks like we're in for some bad weather the rest of the week. I'm glad I got this done early.   The bugs are already picking up.   I hate fleas.

On a high note, a single, red tulip has bloomed today.  There are others showing their heads, but this is the 1st of the season.  There should be an award for that.  

Cya...

BTW:  Spraying is not good for your allergies.

Yesterday's Goof...

Yesterday I blogged about my 1st yard work of the season.  It didn't go well.  I had shaky arms for an hour afterwards.  The goof here was that it was my own doing.  It wasn't just that I did the yard work, but that I did it without the right gloves.  

I had on my typical gardening gloves.  Normally, those are enough for doing things in the yard, but not weed-eating.  I have a pair of shock absorbing gloves that I should've wore & didn't even think about them until this morning.  I did more yard work & weed-eating today with the right gloves & have very little shaking in my hands.  

The point is that my shaky arms were my own fault.  I should've remembered I needed the other gloves.  I failed to employ a basic work philosophy, "The right tool for the right job."  The gloves I wore yesterday were not the right ones & I paid for it.    If I had stopped & thought about it a little more, maybe I might've used the right gloves.  

Today, I took my time & remembered the right gloves.  I did the work & I am sitting here with no shakes or aches.   A lot of what happens to us in our lives boils down to bad choices we made.  We get in a rush.  We don't stop to think the matter through.  In the end a lot of the unwanted in our lives is their because of our own doing.

Cya...

Shaky Arms...

Did my 1st bit of yard work of the Fall.  Not much, thankfully the rechargeable battery on the weed eater doesn't last long.  I know that sounds counter productive & for most people it probably is.  However, after doing very little work I'm happy it's over.

1. I ran the weed eater over an overgrown patch of mint
2. I edged part of the drive
3. I trimmed a few unruly limbs from bushes
4. I sprayed weed killer along the drive
5. I gleefully poisoned a large fire ant mound
6. I replaced the tools & other things

After what amounted to about 20 - 30 minutes of work, my hands are weak & arms are shaking.  I get this every time I use power yard tools. It goes away in a bit, but it's always weird when it happens & I have to be careful how I hold things.  It isn't making typing all that much fun either.  So that's my day so far & this post has to come to an end.  

Cya...