We have a big yard.
Lots of weeding, pruning, edging, trimming, hauling, …yet due to my
I like it though. I get a great sense of accomplishment as I look back and see how much nicer it looks. It feels good to work hard and dig my hands through the dirt. With gloves on.
So everyone knows to really rid yourself of a weed you must pull it out by the roots.
I spied a nice thorny weed in one of the garden beds and decided to attack it this afternoon while the kids went down for their nap. I figured I could easily pull this baby out. I started to dig. And pull. Dig. Pull. No luck.
I dug some more. And more. And tried pulling. This mother was not budging. Soon sweat was pouring off my forehead and I came to realize that this weed was the spawn of the Devil. Clearly the roots must shoot all the way down to hell! And it seemed there was no way I was going to reach the bottom to pull it out. Due to my perseverance and earthly duty to rid the world of the thorny Devil Weed, I didn’t give up.
What started out as a simple task of removing a thorny weed from our garden, ended up being a complete 40 minute workout. Who needs cardio when you have a Devil Weed to kill? I began to take it personally that it kept resisting. It made me work harder and after an extended period of battling and cursing, I finally, FINALLY won!
I shouted “I WON MOTHER F*CKER!!!”
Seriously.
Please take a look:
That's not a tree limb. It's only part of the root to hell.
And here's just a fragment of mammoth Devil Weed's core.
22 comments:
We don't have weeds in our igloos. ;-)
Sweet baby Jesus that's a big ass weed! I spent my whole weekend pulling weeds, mowing, edging, trimming, etc. too. I even managed to not get a sunburn (which is a huge accomplishment for me)!
Good God, that's a giant weed. I have a ton of weeds in my front yard. We put out weed & feed, but I think we misread the bag. I think it was Feed the Weed. They will NOT go away.
But, now that I have more time on my hands, I can get to them.
You have just reminded me of yet one more reason I'm glad I don't live in our previous home.... the owners before us hired a professor at a State College to design and plan the landscaping. They spent $25,000 to do it all.....
when we moved in they gave us copies of the landscaping plan, in both Latin and English - in TRIPLICATE.
.... and I am sooo not a 'yard' person. I don't enjoy it, don't do it and don't care. So we left everything alone for the first 1 1/2 years we lived there. Did not touch anything in the entire 1/2 acre of yard.
The next year I paid. I pulled out weeds much like the one you showed. We also had weeds that were (I kid you not) 14 FEET high, growing inbetween some of the bushes and trees.
ACK!
Memories....... bad ones. Next post please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
First ants.. then weeds.. next?
I canNOT believe that!!
I bet you felt such a sense of accomplishment after pulling out that sucker!
That is the biggest fucking weed I have ever seen. Good job.
HOLY SHIT!!!
I think that's a tree root!
Good job, that is one huge weed.
Ug, which reminds me ....
Holy shit! Go you!! I wish we had a yard to work in... I like that kind of thing a lot. Someday....
Holy Moley! I love it when you get all worked up and determined to accomplish the task. Good for you not giving up!
Ok--when you said it was a big weed I thought ok a weed. Man that is Mammoth. It makes me just want to keep the weeds in my yard out of fear of what the root system will look like. Yikes!
Damn! You got skillz, wanna come pull mine?
Oh and up here we call those trees
My dear, I think you mistakenly dug up a tree (good Lord that's a big ass weed! :) Speaking of trees... during this 'Spring Cleaning', did the Christmas tree finally get the boot? :)
You made it! Looks like it's out!
Whoa! That was a mega-weed! You must have dug down several feet to get that thing out! I hope it wasn't the kind that sends out runners that sprout up new weeds!
OMG. That is the craziest thing I've ever seen. Good for you to kick that things ass!
That's a very, very nice weed, honey.
Damn! I need one of you at my house.
I need you at my house!
That is one huge weed.
And you TOTALLY KICKED ITS' ASS!!
Reminds me of the time I tried to remove a "small" ivy vine that had planted itself in our garden. Took me over an hour, and at the end I was sweating and cursing like a sailor in the boiler room of the Queen Mary. But I too let out a primal scream when I at last succceeded. Congrats on your victory!
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