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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

I've mowed lawns for over 35 years and have a good sense of how the grass grows in my area. There are only two popular grasses planted here, native Bermuda and Fescue. Bermuda is best suited for the climate but it is the last to turn green, the first to turn brown, and spreads like crazy. It will grow in fences and cracks of drives and walks and is an ugly grass. It takes very little water and loves full sun. Fescue is a pretty grass but a seed only grows one plant that does not spread. It takes lots of water, has to be feed nutrients, has to be over seeded yearly, and is not hardy enough to stand up to dog and kid traffic. The restricted watering has Fescue struggling to survive and it isn't hot yet. Bermuda, for the most part, is protecting itself by remaining dormant this spring. It's been too cool and way to arid for it to turn green. Between the two slow starts, I'm skipping yards that flat don't need mowed. I've never skipped yards this time of year. Never have I seen the grasses so slow to respond to spring. I don't miss the work but it sure is messing with my mow schedule.

What's the weather like where you are?

It again dropped into the low forties over night. It is warming up faster today than it has lately. That supports the forecast reaching the the low seventies this afternoon. Today is to be the coolest day of the next ten days at 74°. I see nothing but eighties and and a couple of nineties in my forecast. With some luck, this will be the last of the colder weather until fall.

Random Thought Thread

We have three and maybe four feral cats in the neighborhood. Our indoor cat was born in my old shed years ago. We have some feelings for the feral cats.. after all, our cat was an offspring. It has been so dry that we've started setting out water for them. That led to setting out some dry food for them. The problem we have is we are feeding the blackbirds, blue jays, rabbits, and maybe racoons. Does anyone have any ideas how to assist the cats and not the birds and bunnies?

E-Bikes

My wife came home from her shopping and was surprised that I didn't go riding. It did feel pretty nice in the full sunshine. Hovering right at sixty with wind in the single digits was tempting. I know that at twenty five mph it would be pretty chilly. Considering I woke up with a soar throat from mowing in the cold yesterday, I bowed out.

MLB 2026

After stinking up the entirety of MLB and being dead last in the American Central, They have won nine of their last eleven games. They are far from playing shut down baseball but at least they have been watchable. Their pitching has improved and their defense has played solid ball. Their offense isn't lights out but they have been able to produce runs and haven't folded when they had to produce. The Central doesn't have a clear leader. The win loss percentages has the entire Central in a tight race. I'm sure there will be some separation by the break. The Royals have won the first two of four against the Guardians and then they host the Detroit for three. They need to stay hot and win those games. What an opportunity to move up in the standings that won't likely happen. 😆

Disappearing photos

He's really bad with tech. I do know that I helped him change his password some time ago, but they keep giving him crap about it. They should let people keep their old passwords instead of forcing them to switch and then they can't remember the new one, or maybe any. I think all the old photos are not there, only pretty recent. I had helped to put them in albums years back and would certainly recognize them. How can goo even be contacted? I'm sure they go to A LOT of trouble to prevent that...

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