Signs of Aging

[bitingmidge]

Dyavagoodweekend?

One of the indicators I have of whether or not the weekend was good, is NOT a wheelie bin full of stubbies, but whether or not the workshop bin is full by rubbish day (Monday).

If it's got lots of curlie stuff and off-cuts and leftover things that I've cut up to make bits for something that isn't finished yet, then I know I've had a pretty good weekend. The fact that I need to look in my bin is in itself a sad reflection of where my life is at I guess.

Today, was even sadder.

The attached pic shows my bin.... One bit of 1mm offut from the toy boat steering gear, and TEN TONS OF PASPALUM!!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:

Once I didn't even notice weeds in lawn... I didn't actually have any lawn... NOW (and this is the most awful bit...) I actually seem to be ENJOYING digging them out!!!

Is this just part of the aging process, or do I need some sort of therapy??

If so, suggestions would be appreciated.

Yours truly,

P

[silentC]

Pulling out paspalum and buffalo from your cooch is a highly addictive pastime. I was hooked. My front lawn was like a bowling green but it was only kept that way through many hours on hands and knees pulling the foreign bits out. My neighbours came home from a restaurant one night and I was out there with a beer in one hand and busily digging out a bindi plant with the other. This is a true story, you can ask them. It may not be too late for you. I suggest you go away for 3 months and when you come back, the lawn will be in such a state that you will be cured of trying to fix it.

[craigb]

Is this just part of the aging process, or do I need some sort of therapy??

If so, suggestions would be appreciated.

You definitely need some therapy.

Dig up your lawn. Plant a native garden instead. Or alternatively, concrete it over and paint it green.

[Termite]

Midge, you are at the mature stage, aging comes later. You know you are old when, like me, you can take a look at the knee high grass and say "Stuff the lawn" and happily go into your shed and play.

[Sturdee]

You know you are old when, like me, you can take a look at the knee high grass and say "Stuff the lawn" and happily go into your shed and play.

I must be old. Mowed the nature strip on saturday, first time since just before Christmas.



Peter.

[Rocker]

Midge,

Your problem is not getting old, but living in an area where it is socially unacceptable to leave grass cuttings on the lawn to rot, and people actually care about the proportions of the individual species of grass in their lawns. My nearest neighbour is a truckie who has covered most of his two-acre block with gravel to park his 18-wheelers on, so I can feel superior about the biological diversity of my lawn, which boasts couch, paspalum, bindii, and many other botanical curiosities.

Sturdee,

I believe that in the sub-Antarctic latitudes in which you reside grass only grows about 50 mm per year, so it should be quite acceptable to mow your nature strip every three months

Rocker

[Iain]

Sturdee,

I believe that in the sub-Antarctic latitudes in which you reside grass only grows about 50 mm per year, so it should be quite acceptable to mow your nature strip every three months

Rocker

We wish............................more like bloody 50mm a day, and no stubby holder on the ride on :mad:

[Termite]

We wish............................more like bloody 50mm a day, and no stubby holder on the ride on :mad:

What's the matter with the donkeys Iain, too high falutin to eat grass eh?

[Daddles]

... it should be quite acceptable to mow your nature strip every three months

Rocker

That's a typo surely. Didn't you mean three 'years'?

I've got a lawn. The neighbour keeps it real neat. Now all I have to do is to get him to do the same with the stuff inside my fences.

Richard

[Sturdee]

I believe that in the sub-Antarctic latitudes in which you reside grass only grows about 50 mm per year, so it should be quite acceptable to mow your nature strip every three months

Maybe grass grows only 50mm in a year, wouldn't know about that as we don't have a lawn. But the nature strip, although green, is mainly weeds. Everyone around me mows every 2 or 3 weeks but then they don't have a workshop.

Peter.

[Grunt]

Signs of Aging

I was going to say something really witty but I've forgotten what it is now.
Pass that glass of warm milk will you?

[ozwinner]

Pass that glass of warm milk will you?

Pussy

Al

[bitingmidge]

Prussy

P

[graemet]

Aging is a very high price to pay for maturity!
BTW this summer I've mowed my grass twice, so much for water restrictions, instead of every second week.
Cheers
Graeme

[Daddles]

Pussy

Al

You want him to pass you a pussy rather than a glass of warm milk? :eek:
Oh, you mean a pussy to DRINK the warm milk.
Silly me. I though you were being rude

Cheers
R...err...Ri...er, what's 'is name