I woke up yesterday morning in the killing mood. I looked outside, saw a lovely clear blue sky and thought, yep, time to slay.
I mean weeds in my lawn of course, nothing sinister. C'mon, who do you take me for?!
A while ago I took over mowing and edging my lawn from a gardener as he was not doing a good job; Doing it myself would save me some money too. I bought a lawn mower and an edger and I was off and running.
I had to promise Faith not to get crazy about my lawn, obsessive...She knows me all too well and knew I would want the lawn to look spectacular; She'd seen me spend far too much time lovin'-on my lawn in the past and she made me swear I would be sensible this time...Yeah right Faithy-me-girl...As if. (I actually had my fingers crossed when I promised so it doesn't count.) 😁
I've spent the last few months, our winter months, coaxing my lawn back to health and now we're heading into Spring the lawn-lovin' is really ramping up to a fever-pitch.
My lawn has been attacked by broadleaf weeds like clover and bindii, mainly because the mower the gardener spread it from the other land he was doing. So, the offending weeds require slaying so that when Spring and Summer come around my neighbours are jealous of how damned good my lawn looks! Yeah I know it's pretty and this is what Faith was afraid of...My pursuit of neighbour-lawn-envy and the craziness I go to in the pursuit of it.
My go to slaying product is Yates and you can see a container pictured here.
Simply plug in the hose, turn it on and the weedkiller is sucked and sprays over the lawn with the water; The Venturi effect causes that to occur because science. I used two containers today and I'll not be able to mow it for a week so the poison can do its deadly work on the offending weeds.
A confession: When Faith asked me not to obsess about the lawn I knew I was going to get totally obsessed with making it look as good as I can. She probably knew I would get crazy too!
It's just my nature to seek the best result possible, and whether that is in myself or my lawn I'll focus on it, do what's required to make it happen and then feel good about it...Even if the desired result isn't achieved I get satisfaction from putting in the effort. Continual improvement is my thing.
Of course, when it's my own personal best I'm humble when great results come...With my lawn...Well, I'm sorry but neighbour-lawn-envy is too good a thing to pass up. It's glorious!
I'll be keeping a very close eye on my lawn, and the death of the weeds; Yep, you know I'll be checking it a couple times a day at least. I just won't be able to help myself...Maybe I'll talk to my grass too, although I may leave that craziness for a little later.
Is anyone else like this? I'd love to hear if you guys obsess like this with anything. I mean yeah, I know I'm obsessing about a thing that really means very little in the grand scheme of things, but for me it's sort of personal. I seem to have attached a feeling of value on the way my grass looks, and of course the feeling of satisfaction knowing I brought my grass back to life...Even if I had to slay some weeds to make it happen.
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