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🦋 Weeding: two approaches

Ellen and I are clearing out dead stuff and overly grown stuff from the fern and forsythia garden on the side of the house, about the state of which the bitchy neighbor has been complaining and which, if the truth be told, is getting a little long in the tooth.

Me: Did you see that vine with the pretty blue flowers? I hadn't noticed that before.

Ellen: No...

Me: It was right over here -- (looks around) Huh, now I don't see it. (A little later, looking under a fern and seeing a bit of plant with a flower attached) See, like this! I could have sworn there were a lot of them over here!

Ellen: Oh yeah, those are weeds. I usually pull them, they're pretty invasive.

(And this afternoon, the neighbor thanked us and apologized for complaining about it. Nice! Back on good terms.)

posted morning of Saturday, August second, 2008
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