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I am a retired English teacher and department head, the mother of three grand mother of four, and have been married to the same man for 53 years, two years after we met at college. I taught in both middle and high schools as I really love teens and in-betweens. I was also a certified Lamaze instructor, and for a short time a volunteer chaplain at Howard County General Hospital. I am a two-time cancer survivor, ovarian (2003), and breast (2019) I was born in South Philadelphia and grew up in the 'burbs with great parents, in a bilingual household. I love soft pretzels and cheesesteaks, the Phillies, the Eagles, the Orioles, and sometimes the Ravens. I love being Mom, Aunt Kathy, Nona Kathy (Kath), and Teacher. I spend a lot of time in my gardens in the spring and summer, and in the winter I plan what I'm going to plant. I also am an avid reader, cook, photographer, lover of languages, music, and four-footed furries.

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Showing posts with label napalm. Show all posts
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Monday, October 28, 2013

War Is Hell

Several weeks ago, my husband declared war on the crabgrass that was over-taking our lawn.  He traveled back and forth to the hardware store buying the more ferocious herbicides available.  (Thank God napalm isn't available).  The result is that within days our lawn looked a lot like Joshua Tree National Park.



Actual lawn...


Since then, we've called in Scott's who have aerated and re-seeded and we now have some 'baby grass'.

It's been a weird fall.  We had such a dry end of summer that many of the trees' leaves, as I before mentioned, have just turned brown and fallen off.  However, some of the maples have put on a beautiful show, and some, even after a few freezes, have yet to begun performing such as this large maple in our yard.

Soon, perhaps...