Good morning!!!!

[rswyan]

We all stopped using fertilizer on the grass here (at least most say they do), was messing up the streams and ponds quite a bit. How do you stop runoff where you are RS?

Not much in the way of real streams or ponds around the house here, although there is an area behind the house that is classified as one I guess (has a riparian set back, where you can't do anything within so many feet of it)

It's basically just seasonal and only really runs when there are heavy rains - mostly storm sewer/leach field runoff from the adjacent road/houses.

Started to pile old log debris from downed trees at the bottom of the property probably 15 years ago to form a dam for retention of runoff. Those efforts are ongoing.

I wouldn't be fertilizing, other than the fact that the condition of the grass had gotten so poor here, where weeds were really starting to take over. It probably hasn't seen any fertilizer or weed killer in 15 years.

The part I have fertilized is lush and thriving and the bare spots are starting to fill in, even without overseeding it.

Once it gets into good shape I'll probably try and keep up with the mowing better than I have in the past and reduce the fertilizer and weed killer use.

 

[rswyan]

top,

Sorry about your outdoor cat.

 

[rswyan]

RS, my wife just looked over my shoulder and saw your Zucchini pic.
She thought it was a pic I had just taken of the courgettes in her raised beds. If I hadn't said anything, she would be out there now with a hoe, trying to figure out where the emerging thistles had gone !

If she were here, she'd be trying to figure out where they had gone too - Woman went on a weed attack yesterday.

Now I just got to mulch it.

 

[PJSprog]

Took the Volvo guy all of five minutes to see me trying to climb into XC90 with the driver seat all the way down and
my neck not bending to tell me simply you need a bigger opening, medium truck or larger. So no Volvo, though the seats were very nice.

Nice of that guy to forego selling you a car in favor of giving good advice. Not a common practice in auto sales.

 

[RoyJackson]

...then there was Abarth. Italians always wanted a hotter model.

Abarths (either FIAT or Alfa Romeos) were actually pretty neat cars...quick too, considering the engines were normally under 1500cc. Most had a Weber carb and an Abarth free flow exhaust.
If built upon a stock body, they were pretty decent. Some were hand built bodies and they could be pretty crude...but fast!

 

[toppop52]

Boy! You were really into self abuse, weren't you?

I was 16-17.

 

[Bird]

The yard definitely needed mowing, even though I last mowed it just 4 days ago. So, first thing this morning, I mowed (with the bagger), edged, and trimmed because more rain is forecast; may or may not happen.

A couple of days ago, at the local 3 day a week farmers market in Denton, I bought some yellow pity pat squash (years ago I raised the white ones and have never seen them in a grocery store) and some green round zucchini (I'd never even heard of such a thing before; round zucchini). I also bought some fresh blackeyed peas that I shelled and put in the refrigerator when I got home day before yesterday.

Yesterday was a long day, got my daughter to the hospital before 5:30 a.m. and fortunately she was their first patient that day, so even the doctor showed up fairly early; did the hour and a half surgery on her foot, a little time in recovery (glad I took my new AARP Magazine to read since medical facilities don't have the reading material they used to have) and we got out of there very shortly after noon; stopped at What-A-Burger for burgers to take to her home, and got her home and settled. The doctor says 6 to 8 weeks before she can put any weight on that foot.

Anyway, my wife called her this morning and she says she's doing fine. She didn't like the crutches yesterday, especially getting up the stairs to the front door of her double wide mobile home (with me holding onto her, of course), but she said she can get around in the house very well with that one knee on the seat of her rollator. She has one of those special one leg roller gadgets ordered, but they said it would be 2 weeks coming.

And for a huge lunch today, we sliced, then fried pity pat squash AND round green zucchini, those fresh blackeyed peas that my wife started cooking earlier today, sliced onion, sliced tomatoes, and cornbread. I'm stuffed.

 

[toppop52]

Up to 95,, severe thunderstorm watch, pop up storms have already started.

Drew, why don’t you try the four door midsize trucks? Room of an suv with a bed, good ride quality, power and handling.

Of all the cars I’ve had my favorites were my 66 Tri Power, 4 speed GTO convertible, 68 GTX Hemi and my 67 Impala SS with the LT1/4L60E swap.
Two of those would easily fund my retirement. I also owned 11 Firebirds ranging from ‘67 400 to ‘89 Formula 350 and a lot in between, sometimes two at a time. I was really into them in the 70’s and 80’s. I’ve had several nice Mopars as well. Now all we have is 70 El Camino and it’s going to the restoration shop in August for a 3-5 month restoration and update.

My absolute favorite daily driver hands down was my 96 two door Tahoe. I kept it until 2015 and wish I hadn’t sold it.

 

[LouNY]

You may find this hard to believe but in recent years the easiest car (SUV) that I have had was a Suzuki SX4.
It was a small sedan that had a slightly raised driving height and awd.
The doors were quite large and the footwell opening was long and flat made the car easy to enter and exit,
You could sit into and stand up out of it. No falling in and having to claw and climb your way out.
Traded that to make my wife happy in about 3 months she was wishing to have it back.
But like most things it seems if I find it useful practical and versatile it goes off the market.
When my father was getting towards the end of his life it was a vehicle that he could get into and out off,
and whoever was taking care of him could take it out and about on the farm and field roads so he could see
what was going on. All the pickups were to high and the other various SUV's to difficult to twist and contortion
into and out of.

 

[Thomas]

74F cloudy chance of over night rain...yep need the rain.
So far to was 100% putter day,this evening should be even slower.

Enjoy your evening all.