For regular household chores, things in our house sort of just get done when they need to get done. We both have things that we tend to do -- he waters the garden, scoops the cat box, takes out the trash, and usually loads the dishwasher, whereas I do more of the general tidying of each room (he's better if he's given a specific task; if I told him to "clean the living room", he'd have no clue). Usually every week or two we jointly clean the entire house, which involves mopping floors, scrubbing toilets, and all that stuff -- realistically, I do the lions share of that work, but he tries his best. One thing that has made housework a little more fun for us is this thing called Chore Wars -- if your husband (or kids) is into D&D or other roleplaying games, it's a way to track your chores, and gain "experience" while doing it. My husband and I compete to gain more points than the other, and right now he's beating me :( Because my husband is such a geek, though, he's been so willing to do chores lately, just to be able to enter them into this Chore Wars thing, so I love it. As far as household maintenance type stuff, like fixing things, generally hubbie asks me what our plans are for the weekend. I tell him if I think we need to work on anything special, and if he's noticed anything that needs attention, he'll add it in. We also keep a list up on the fridge of things that need to be done, and try to knock off 1 or 2 of those regularly. I'm very lucky that my husband is always very willing to pitch in and do his fair share -- I try to return the favor by making sure that he has plenty of his own time on the weekend to do what he wants (play video games, watch TV, whatever).

Yes, I've controlled any number of nearly "impossible" and fast-reproducing plants with this method. Works fine. Some that are harder to control than this, so my "qualification" challenge definitely passes here. Now that we're apparently talking again... https://www.houzz.com/discussions/6027784/what-is-a-good-organic-soil-amendment Still waiting to know how urea-eating bacteria work but decay bacteria don't, even though they're the same species. I also have that microbiologist still waiting. Apparently you'll interact with me enough to answer, so I think you can give me the scientific papers over here to disprove me, yes?

rob, take the class and then show the hospital that you have the skill and maybe they will create a position for you. It sounds like a great skill to offer in a hospital and I'm guessing they will see the need and you will be able to fill it immediately. And as Nicole said, it's a skill you can apply in other areas of life. It reminds me of my friend who went to a very large bank and spoke with them about having a Director of Supplier Divirsity meaning a person who made sure that all racial and cultural companies were considered when procuring services for the bank. They had never thought about it before he met with them and brought them his ideas. That was quite a few years ago and wasn't something anyone else was doing. I think it's pretty common now. But someone had to bring up the idea. Why not you?

I had so much garlic mustard when we first moved to this house in 2016 (stilt grass too). I just kept walking around with black plastic garbage bags and pulling both of them up. I would just roll the stilt grass from one end to the other. Then I set a log line along the back of my property and kept at it every year. We relocated the log line further back and started clearing the woods little but little. I still get seedling in my yard but I pull them right away. My yard is pretty clear of them now but the woods behind me are still full of it. I increase the distance I pull each year but it's not my property so I can only venture so far before I end up in the neighbor's backyard.