You probably could use a sprinkler to dispense gasoline throughout the yard. Then just one strike of the match and the leaves are gone. And you might even make the evening news.
My whole backyard is shade except in the winter when the leaves are gone. I gave up a long time ago on trying to keep moss out of my lawn. I actually embrace the moss now. I just wish the leaves would all come down in a week.
I actually love my yard - lots of trees, and I'd like to plant more. Maple, Japanese Maple, oak, ash, sassafrass, pear, HUGE pines, cedar, northern magnolia, dogwood, plum...we mulch the grass (its not quite an acre), but the oak leaves are terrible - like cardboard! And I think it is the tallest tree in the yard. The front yard is lined with forsynthia bushes, which look very nice when trimmed (and bloom a bright yellow early in the spring) - but they grow like weeds and have to be trimmed 3x/year; an expensive job. Hope son has a growth-spurt soon, so he can reach! I don't have so much moss, as this flat plantain-stuff. The dogs running around and the shade make the grass wither (although I try every year with seed!) Hey - it's green! 'Nuff said.
Kerry - I will keep your Plan B in the back of my head, though. I was tempted when I started to realize how much work the house needed!
Met up with a woman who used to work with me, yesterday - did some catching up. She went through a nasty divorce from an abusive man, about a year before my bomb. She has a great job, now, making more money. I teach her kids, and they are doing pretty well. She has been dating a guy for about a year. I told her that looking at the schedule, things seem so daunting to get back out there. She said that she went on a TON of first dates, not many second ones. Keep the standards high - it is definitely different this time around! A new person has to prove their worth to you, bend and be flexible to fit in around an already-established life. The kids, other established relationships, come first. But, she is happy. They don't see each other too often, but he is a good man, and she can look back and see how messed up her first marriage was, now.
Met up with yet another IRL woman who went through her D just before mine. She and her kids are doing fine, she is newly married and gets to stay at home with her kids. Her new H is a bodyguard for a major band (she offered to get me free tickets the next time they are local). Funny to run into these two people in the same week.
********* Recovering from a cold (same virus my D went through; at least it's not the flu). Lots of time in bed, then 8 hours at the church bazaar. Watching some tv...
I hate tv commercials for jewelry this time of year - bastard advertising executives! I mean, it's just shiny rocks!! How do they DO that?!
I have plans to sell my old engagement ring to take a trip to Italy next year, anyway!
I wish my engagement ring were worth enough to get me to Italy!!!
I know what you mean about the jewelry commercials. TV, radio....UGH! I hate that! Heck, I hate seeing happy couples walking hand in hand too so it all pretty much bites.
T19 M15 S19 XH47 M43 bomb12/4/07 PA5/07 S12/26/07 D final 11/17/08 Back together with no defined R 05/2010 confused....to say the least!!!
AJ gave my old engagement ring to his new girlfriend!!!
Yikes...
she can have it
although I may have clocked her if it were wortha trip to Italy...as it was, I may have been able to get a pack of fruit stiped gum with it so I let her keep it!!!
yeah, that's a dilemna I still have. There isnt' much left from "our stuff" but I have my wedding ring and anniversary ring. The two are similar in design, and wonder it giving them to the boys later on in life is the right thing to do. I always heard rings from a broken marriage are cursed?
Me 35/XW 33 S13 & S12 M: 10/17/98 OM & S: 07/08 D final 06/09/09 12/03/09 - 06/13/10 "Piercing" 06/13/10: Engaged to Re-marry 10/17/10 06/25/10: Expecting baby #3 2/14/11
