How do y'all get motivated to pull weeds
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Comments (27)My DS and I have just finished cleaning out my dad's property so we can sell it: 2400sf house, two car garage attached to the house, another two car garage/workshop, attic and a large shed. All of these were FULL of stuff. We first determined things we knew we were going to keep, either for ourselves or to put in storage to sell later. We moved the larger things we were keeping out to make more room and to give us a feeling of some progress. Then we started with the obvious trash and got rid of it. That made it a lot easier to see what was left. Once thing that I had to be careful about was spending too much time with the sentimental things. We found a lot of old pictures, cards, and even letters between my parents right after they were married. I found very quickly that I would start looking at these things and an hour or more was gone. For things like those, you may want to put them aside until later. You can always go through a box of photos while watching tv. I found it helpful to focus on areas where I knew I could make fast progress. For you, that may be something like the baby clothes. You know you will never need those again. Unless there is a special item packed away in there that you'd like to pass on to your grandkids, you may be able to just take the bags/boxes that you know contain baby clothes and either put them in a pile to be donated or trash them if they are in bad condition. That will let you see your progress and encourage you. Yes, your kids will be grateful. My dad hung on to so much obvious junk: old catalogs, half empty containers of everything from motor oil to shampoo, old clothes, our old toys, etc. I am trying to really think about this for my own home....See MoreDo any of y'all do geneological research?
Comments (8)AltaVista, Google, and TopoZone have been very helpful for on-line searches. The basic TopoZone was free, but now is only available by subscription. That is unfortunate because TopoZone was very good for locating land holdings and obscure, abandonded cemeteries. Towns and villages that no longer exist can be found if those had a post office in the past, or were of note in their day. Where available, TopoZone can show section numbers. With this inforamtion and the legal description of land, one can locate exactly where the land holdings of your ancestors were. This can be very helpful and it adds to the knowledge of living conditions of your ancestors. As an added bonus, TopoZone can show the topology (elevation lines) of the land and this gives one the idea of terrain hilliness or flatness. Major peaks, hills, gullies, and streams are readily identifiable which is an additional aid to finding "the old home place". The GLO (goverment land office) has records of land patents. Some of these are duplicated in state, on-line achives. A land patent is the first official record of land ownership, many of which were purchased by homesteading. Military warrants was another instrument of purchase. However, beware that a military warrant (grant) could be sold to another party - some were sold at 10 cents to the dollar, thus a particular plot of land could be recorded in the name of the warrant but was held by different person. In the majority of cases, warrants were executed by the person who earned those....See MoreHow do you get motived?
Comments (15)I have a hard time with motivation also. Our tree has been up since the 2nd. Our youngest 'little girl' thought it would be a good thing to do before she left to go back to grad school after her Thanksgiving break. I thought it was waaay to early for a Christmas tree to be put up ( a thought which I kept to myself) so, the three of us put up the Christmas tree on December 2nd. After it was done I could not believe the sense of 'Ahaaa' I had, that chore was finished. I agree with you, Moni, it was so much easier to get this type of stuff done when we had our little Kid-Os around. Who knew that those little products of conception would turn into adults with homes and lives of their own? I miss those days. So, Ms. Moni, if your tree is in place and assembled and the box of ornies is open, you are well on your way to being able to cross 'put up tree' from your to-do list. I say...Well Done! Make yourself a cup of tea, sit down and knit...a nice reward... sooey...See MoreHow do you get rid of Catatils and other water edge weeds?
Comments (4)Oh, derp, you're looking for an answer and I gave questions. I deal with weeds and other pests biologically when possible. I set up competition for limited resources, and I encourage things that eat what I have too much of. For bermuda grass, I killed its head start by cutting it to the ground, heavy mulching, and planting a cover crop mix in the area. For algae overgrowth in the pool-turned-pond, I introduced several other plant species, and both vertebrate and invertebrate algae eaters. For mosquito larvae in the pond, I leave the aggressive predatory bugs alone, and introduced fish small enough to see them as food, which I never feed. For slugs, snails, and herbivorous pest bugs in the garden, I never kill spiders nor centipedes, and I'll be putting in some toad houses when I can, now that I know we've got useful amphibians in the area. I think for nearly every maintenance and balance problem in a living system, there's some organism holding up a tiny "will work for food" sign, aching to solve your problem for you. But for it to work, you do have to let go of tight control....See Morefloral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
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