Cooch, now I had to look up what a vole is....now I know

The only lawn story I can think of is when I was kid, my dad was mowing the lawn in the back yard and we saw something black come out of the thrower.  It was a mangled tarantula.

Ahhh Robb...the temptation is great.  If only my landlady would agree.

Right now if I killed off the crab grass I'd have almost no lawn at all.  I got out my trusty rusty spreader a few weeks ago and put down some Weed and Feed.  As instructed, I didn't water for something like 72 hours then poured the water to it.  One day I noticed an odd pattern like someone had set a camper shell on the lawn and there was a yellow, rounded edged rectangle  outlined in the grass.  I puzzled over this phenomenon, scratched my head, pondered, and finally wondered if it was the same thing that happened to the corn fields.  You know..the circles and patterns supposedly made by aliens.

It finally came to me what the pattern was.  The rounded edge was from the turns I made with the spreader.  I had apparenlty gotten too much fertilizer (In the "Feed" part) and burned the grass on my rounds.

The other problem I have is that there were two big trees in the front yard at one time.  I know that because the neighbors all have the obligitory two trees, one on each side of the sidewalk...while I only have big dips in the lawn.  It's not too bad until you step off in one not noticing because the grass is so tall inside.  The other problem is that the mower goes down in the hole but has trouble climbing out again.

Anyone know a mow and blow guy who mows on the cheap?  Or anyone have a goat they aren't using?

I do have a lawn story I realized as I read the above.

It was Mother's Day ten odd years ago.  I was married to my (ex, now) husband, and I figured since he didn't acknowledge mother's day (He always told me I  wasn't HIS mother)  I decided to mow the yard with his brand new front throw mower.  I was gonna show him something!  Hmmph!  Needless to say, I mowed the yard every Sunday for the rest of the marriage, cause now he knew that I could, he didn't bother with it !!! 

I sure showed him!  =)

Damn those womens libbers anyway.  When they burned their bras they burned my fanny because now guys expect US to lift heavy things and kill spiders.  Pshaw..what's up with THAT?

(ynoma74...never let them see you sweat.)

Coochee's gotta be the winner here ---- dead, mowed up voles, YUCK!