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[Missk_2022]

Too bad you weren’t local. Mrs wonderer is a gardener and could make the flower beds look great pretty quickly.

Or she’d just send her lackey (me) to do the hard work!

It may even be less work than you think. What needs to be done?

Weeding is the biggest thing they are out of control.... I qm ashamed of how it looks

 

[Lonestar79]

Thanks for the welcome. Totally understand the "rules" and actually find them quite refreshing.

Being protective is good and I promise to behave.

 

[Wonderer67]

I haven't read any of his stuff. Maybe I should. Paying It Forward is the bomb, though.


OM is right. I walk, no running. No bear spray, but on my person is a 9mm, a nasty folding knife and a set of knuckledusters. I'm too old to run, too old to lose, and too young to die. I don't care what they bring, because I have an answer.


Off for Round #2.

That’s the spirit, Wat.

Cussed stubbornness. (My dad used to used that word, looks like cussed, but he would say cussedness (like super stubborn…)

 

[Missk_2022]

I cant seem to find the first thread. I have lurked around here a bit but never said hello until now.

 

[Lonestar79]

Weeding is the biggest thing they are out of control.... I qm ashamed of how it looks

My wife and I are not "garden people." To the point we replaced all our flower beds with hardscape and plants that require no upkeep.

 

[Wonderer67]

Sounds good to me. Yes, I am from Texas. Dallas area to be more exact.

Nice.

I used to be stationed at Fort Hood. My wife and I went back to Texas last September and I forgot how awful hot it is even an early September.

West Texas and Texas Hill country are beautiful!!

Heard this the other day on outlaw country channel… One of my favorites!!

 

[BlackSatinKnight]

Boy… those are some books I have read since I was a teenager. (Also starship Troopers… “I am a 30 second bomb, 29, 28, 27…”)

Morning back to ya!!

I reread them, including Starship Troopers, when I need something to relax. Every time I reread them I find something else to ponder.

 

[Wonderer67]

Weeding is the biggest thing they are out of control.... I qm ashamed of how it looks

You might be able to really make a quick dent if kneeling doesn’t bother you too much. You can beat the heat by working early or late and maybe make some quick work of it w a weeding tool or even a screwdriver to try to get em by the roots.

 

[Wonderer67]

I reread them, including Starship Troopers, when I need something to relax. Every time I reread them I find something else to ponder.

I think you’ve given me some inspiration. I have so much on my reading plate.

What did you think of the movie that they made several years ago? I actually enjoyed it. Very campy and fun.

Then I googled it and realized it was like 25 years ago that that movie came out. Apparently there was another version that came out in 2016.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

I’m a huge Robert Heinlein fan (Stranger in a Strange World, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress) and he was an advocate of pay it forward. I’m not as good at this as I should be, but I’m a work in progress as we all are.

Starship Troopers was a good one also. If I remember that work was actually used as reference material at the USMA. I seem to remember one of our Lieutenants telling me about that…

 

[Qky75]

Yeah.... I live in a little village. And grew up on a farm. My back yard is a field for now, but the farmer just put it up for sale and developers are circling.... we will have houses there eventually. So the days of having guns out and hunting in the forested area are gonna be over soon.

Naaaah...the deer will lose their antlers and walk on two legs. Remember any protein on your property is fair game

 

[Lonestar79]

Naaaah...the deer will lose their antlers and walk on two legs. Remember any protein on your property is fair game

Why I keep a suppressed 300 Blackout SBR handy.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

No phone call yet. Scarfed down a 3-egg omelette. Need to call Dr. Tyler back. Maybe time to put a stack of chips on the Nap Roulette table.


23!!!

 

[BlackSatinKnight]

I think you’ve given me some inspiration. I have so much on my reading plate.

What did you think of the movie that they made several years ago? I actually enjoyed it. Very campy and fun.

Then I googled it and realized it was like 25 years ago that that movie came out. Apparently there was another version that came out in 2016.

Not a fan of the movies, I wish they would have followed the book. But then again, what movie follows the book?

 

[Wonderer67]

Naaaah...the deer will lose their antlers and walk on two legs. Remember any protein on your property is fair game

I wish that were the case, I have 388368382562882 dear on our property. And of course none to be found during hunting season…

 

[Qky75]

I wish that were the case, I have 388368382562882 dear on our property. And of course none to be found during hunting season…

I dunno how that corn got there Mr Ranger

 

[Qky75]

I dunno how that corn got there Mr Ranger

Ohhhh that ain't no salt block...naww Mrs was out picklin turnips last week n ...well sure I can see how that block shape would seem out of character but .

 

[Lonestar79]

Whew, 30 pages of background reading done. Good thing I like coffee and cats and dogs.

 

[Missk_2022]

My wife and I are not "garden people." To the point we replaced all our flower beds with hardscape and plants that require no upkeep.

I am considering a rock garden and a couple containers on the porch

 

[Missk_2022]

You might be able to really make a quick dent if kneeling doesn’t bother you too much. You can beat the heat by working early or late and maybe make some quick work of it w a weeding tool or even a screwdriver to try to get em by the roots.

Yeah. Kneeling is hard but I can sit in the dirt.... some stuff I can shovel up. I may just start with the easy side early in the am while no mosquitos and cool..... I am thinking the rubberized mulch instead of the stuff that has to be replaced all the time..... or I can get stone for free... I am having some health stuff that should abate soon soon......

 

[Missk_2022]

I dunno how that corn got there Mr Ranger

I was just thinking a few apples.... wrong but hey population thinning helps the herd

 

[Missk_2022]

Whew, 30 pages of background reading done. Good thing I like coffee and cats and dogs.

We also tall about food, guns,motorcycles, whiskey, aches and pains, sometimes one or more of us is having a bad day, dogs, cats, house repair, gardening, vacations cars, etc etc etc

 

[Oldermom935]

My wife and I are not "garden people." To the point we replaced all our flower beds with hardscape and plants that require no upkeep.

Smartest thing to do. I did that as well. But does generate more heat on the exterior perimeter of the house.

 

[Lonestar79]

We just replaced the front ones. Don't have flower beds in the back.

 

[Oldermom935]

I was just thinking a few apples.... wrong but hey population thinning helps the herd

A wildlife conservationist!