Author: The Jody

Sorry for all the junk code over in the blogroll the past couple of days. Apparently the people at blogrolling.com just allow errors to be published instead of sending a note to you to tell you that your account expired so your extra blogrolls were disabled. Thanks blogrolling! That’s great customer service! Way to make me want to send you another twenty bucks to renew!

Of course, because I didn’t know the expiration was coming up, I didn’t bother to move the sites in the roll over to my “free” one. I tried to recreate it by hand, for the record. Maybe I’ll just do that and not pay any extra. Of course, please note that the links will NOT display notice when they were recently updated. You’ll just have to check on your own. Boogerheads. (Not you, the blogrolling people.)

I’m still in a good mood after last night’s boinking of the Bankees. According to the NY Post Georgie referred to A-Rod as “the third baseman” instead of using his name. Heh heh heh. Poor Slappy, getting dissed like that. Maybe he can get his paycheck to cuddle him.

Saturday was fix-the-lawn day at the Dump Garage. We actually were only fixing a part of the lawn because we realized that our ability to successfully nurture grass seed to life would be limited by our ability to remember to water the lawn, and having to water different sections of lawn might be beyond our grasp. Right now we’ve got a decent-sized patch planted (I’m guessing 15′ x 10′ and the sprinkler is firmly in place. When Mr. Dump is done showering (and dressing, duh) and he lets the dog out, he turns it on. So now it will get watered every day. Once we see that area sprouting, we’ll patch up the next (smaller) area next to the driveway.

As we suspected from past experience (and friend-of-the-dump Kiddicus Maximus, ex-landscaper, confirmed) we have a hellish grub infestation. I dug up a couple of dandelions from the area we cleared and in there were 3-4 grubs just in that one tiny hole. (And yet, the dandelions were still alive. Go figure.)

I also cleared out my little flower garden, which was really a weed garden, so that only the strawberry plants were left. Four of them look pretty healthy, and have a bunch of flowers. I am going to have to dig them up and transplant them, because I apparently planted something last year that spreads faster than the dandelions, and that spot is useless for growing much of anything other than weeds. I’ll spend a short while making sure I pulled out everything that was there (I suspect new plants will appear in a few days. I’m telling you, whatever it was, it was spreading into the lawn, and I don’t remember what I planted) I’ll turn all that soil, throw some topsoil on it and figure out what, if anything, to plant there. Maybe a big cactus so it will be okay if I forget to water it.

Now Christine did way more more yard work than I did, so I won’t complain about the muscles in the back of my legs from all the weeding I did. I know when I’ve been bested…

Apparently the PHP server at my hosting company exploded. Or imploded. Or is taking a nap. Anyhoo, my site is still out there, but it can’t show PHP files so I’m trying to move things over to .htm files in the meantime. I suppose I could change permanently, but I’d have to figure out what parts of my page have PHP.

So if you’re reading this, cool. If not, I hope you’ll remember that I do exist!

Ahhh, it’s apparently cuttin limbs off trees day here in the neighborhood. Of course we won’t be using a chainsaw to do our chores unless someone gets wildly out of control mowing the lawn.

So I’m feeling little to no motivation to do yard work, but the soil and seeds are bought, so I can’t just leave them outt there, can I?

No. I can’t. Hey, maybe I’ll do before and after photos so you can shriek in horror and say to your children “THIS is what happens when you watch too much tv.”