It's been difficult to get rid of this particular weed. The problem is that it's all wound up in my creeping juniper. That means I can't use Round Up. The only way this stuff is going away is through hand-to-hand combat.
I spent almost three hours down there this morning. My guess is that I got rid of about 95% of it. But, I also had to dig up part of the lawn that surrounds the mailbox bed so that I can re-seed it. If the weed comes back, I'll have to do my best to keep it contained to the bed so that I can at least have a weed-free lawn.
After finishing that job, I moved on to trimming forsythia bushes, splitting and moving iris bulbs, transplanting daisies, and trimming the foundation bushes. All in all, it was a pretty nice day and I was feeling good. Until I came inside, that is.
I walked in around 3:30PM. I checked www.espn.com and, much to my surprise, the Bills were actually leading the Patriots 21-17 early in the 4th quarter. I went upstairs and turned on the TV to see if the local channel was actually showing the game. They weren't but I decided to settle in to watch the end of the Titans - Steelers game and watch the scores crawl across the bottom of the screen. Midway through the 4th quarter, the Patriots cut the lead to 21-20. I started to get a bad feeling (or, should I say, a familiar one). Rather than continue watching the ticker, I decided to jump in the shower.
When I finished cleaning up and came back out into the bedroom, lo and behold, CBS was just switching over to show the final 3 minutes of the Bills - Patriots game. That was just enough time for me to watch:
- Two successful third down conversions by the Patriots
- A 20-yard run by the Patriots' third-string tail back when all he was trying to do was kill time
- The winning 35-yard field goal with all of 5 seconds left that allowed the Patriots to, once again, beat the Bills.
