Rain, rain, thanks for the rain...

So much rain the last two weekends, and the grass is growing, and so are the dandelions! YIKES!

But, that means we need to buy a lawnmower this weekend. I suppose we’ll get some materials to build a compost heap, too. Hoping we keep it brown enough to not smell up the neighborhood with rotting greens. All of the lovely dried trimmings I had from cutting down the ornamental grasses got hauled away by our garbage collector last week, because they only pick up that stuff once a month, and I didn’t have a compost heap yet. Oh well…I’m sure there’s more where that stuff came from. Especially since we got so much rain that the grass is actually getting a bit long. It’ll be good to mow it, then fertilize with crab-grass controller, and then spray those ugly dandelions.

Did I tell you we have dandelions? I think there was too much time between the previous owners in the house and the end of the season, because they took such good care of the place, but the veggie garden is awfully weedy, and the dandelions are all over the place. I’m going to try that vinegar stuff on one small section of them, and see how many applications I’ll need to really kill them. Then, hopefully, I won’t kill the grass around them. I guess I’m buying Weed-B-Gone when we go to Home Depot for that lawn mower.