The Idiot next door..at the time....kept a horse for awhile...This turned out to be so much fun he got another one..on a half acre or so lot! They escaped once in awhile and pruned lots of my bushes, etc...The chain link fence was mashed down in spots and any reachable tree was gnawed on...One winter day he had someone bring in a big roll of hay..which they ate with the gusto of starving horses...He moved...[lost the property.] First Spring after that the sloping back yard was chock a block with ragweed..from the roll of hay , I guess. Luckily we aren't allergic to it, or we would have sneezed our heads completely off....Next year we feared more of the same...Lord knows there was enough seed to self sow...Hmnnnn...NO ragweed! Instead there was at least two kinds of tiny white flowering wild asters...and giant purple wild asters self sown from my flower beds...Next year ? More of the same...Last year ? The Idiot 2 houses over volunteered to mow it free and the new resident Idiot LET him ! Now we no longer have to guess what flowers God will plant for us and His wild critters to enjoy...Just a flat swath of grass...Sigh... Jeannie T PS: We keep up with the idiots by numbering them....so we just have to say 'No.1 is heading out to work, etc...' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~` On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:46:26 -0600 "samuels" <dwsbgs@centurytel.net> writes: I have never tried growing my own but love spinach which is not a vegetable I could get to perform. The vacant property next door might be a good place to try. Its most recent use was a horse lot and it grows a tremendous crop of Horse weeds which is also an amaranth and I am very sencetive to the mature plant. > Bud. > > ____________________________________________________________ Groupon™ Official Site 1 ridiculously huge coupon a day. Get 50-90% off your city's best! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d79ba3270dc477e8m06duc
Jeannie: I know why you are a successful journalist. I so enjoy you items. This Idiot syndrome is rampant! I never thought of numbering< like I do My boys. It has amused and made me scream, how many"out of the city" old boys, think country living is all animals and play. As I have said my daughter is a vetinary , can you believe her employer a certified vet. Does not know how to care for free range animals???He is all book and little common sense. Idiots by the thousands seem to believe grass large expanses of it is beautiful and they know it is expensive and wasteful. not to mention work but with brainless zeal they pour money down the rat hole. It is a pure guess but I would say that bale came from a city mowing program thus you got seeds or the birds love the ragweed and brought you beauty. I am high allergic to so many things but now ragweed seems to be one to put me back in hospital, even with my in house air. The vacant property was once said to go to the boy who brought the horses over which I later found out were his LAZY brother in law's( the man is constantly out of work. Now I wonder if it will be pigs or dogs. And they never build a fence. Just cobble junk together. And it is not because they have no funds. They spend a fortune to purchase stock and Hope someone else watches it. So I don't think he will bring dogs, but he has brought pigs. At least the boy knows either he shows up frequently or I call the county. Not that that does any good, county doesn't want the one acre in the middle of nowhere and the official owner wants 36,000 as is. Hey thanks for letting me rant. Bud. -----