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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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 Posted - Jun 16 2010 : 2:09:15 PM
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He's like a warrior when he weed eats. He's all over the place. High and low. Here and there. Everywhere. But I swear, if I don't follow that man and stop him when he gets too close to a plant, he would weed eat everything on this property. He doesn't know a flower or bush or tree from a stick. He needs to take a class in horticulture. He cuts down anything in his way. If it's not got a cage or net or sticks all around it, it's gone. If I don't go out there and take him around to all my plants and gardens and show him what NOT to cut down, it's gone.
So you would think he'd know by now what NOT to cut down. I have been trying to get these 3 clematis to grow up this old white wooden fence in the yard for years. Between him and the goats and cows, they don't stand a chance. Not a chance. I should know this by now. But it still is so sad to see those poor vines wilting a few days later after he's been out there. So sad. And he got the 2nd one the other day. They do grow back though. Almost every time. I had 3 to start. Then there were 2. Now just one. I think I should just give up. And the thing that's so darn funny is he's so proud of himself for even doing it at all. And I am too. Really. But still.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
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TJinMT
True Blue Farmgirl
211 Posts
TJ
Billings
MT
USA
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Posted - Jun 16 2010 : 2:35:44 PM
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Girl, I hear you. I feel your pain!! I've had to start hand-weeding around things I don't want massacred... have even gone to the point of putting rocks around the bases, little wire cages to protect the stems, whatever it takes! Little ribbons tied around the stems!
Mostly, I just mow and edge myself, and if by chance I am lucky enough for him to do it, I rush to hand-weed around my precious baby plants before he can get there with his Weedeater of Death!!!
~TJ
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." -CS Lewis |
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Karrieann
True Blue Farmgirl
1900 Posts
Karrieann
Northeast
Georgia
USA
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Posted - Jun 16 2010 : 2:51:46 PM
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Ooooh man! I hear ya! my guy is exactly same, Kris! UGH!!! GRRRRrr! I get so frustrated1 even if I place a marker stick with pink ribbon near it.. he blasted them to smithereens!.. because the marker was not butting up next to it. UGH! I have this pittiful looking yard with those white wire edge fencing around everything that I want alive!!!!
Karrieann ~ Farmgirl Sister #766 (29 Sept 2009)
My Blog: ...following my heart, dreams and Jesus
...http://karrieann-followingmyheartandjesus.blogspot.com/
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Jun 16 2010 : 5:21:09 PM
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STeve is like that as well! He massacred my boyenberries early this spring..of course they are coming back but I sure don't think I will get many berries, if any, this year now. I tend to put up little fences, stakes or stuff like that around things for him to leave alone. BUT...does he always treat my little fences with the repect they deserve...nope. Sigh. Men!
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
11303 Posts |
Posted - Jun 16 2010 : 5:29:27 PM
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Ok, I guess it's just bred in men to be this way. I think they would all be happier with a plain ole yard with nothing in it at all.
Karrieann, my hubby just called and he's in Toccoa delivering a load to Sears. Watch out!
Jenny, no calf yet? I keep checking your blog and nothing. I have my heifer mazie up the road visiting a bull right now! So hopefully in 9 months or so I'll have a new calf. And I hope you get some berries anyway. Mine does the same thing with all my little attempts at fencing. No respect at all!
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
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sherrye
True Blue Farmgirl
3775 Posts
sherry
bend in the high desert
oregon
USA
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Posted - Jun 16 2010 : 6:10:00 PM
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yes jenny waiting on monas calf still. same here for maddie. i worry mine arent bred. gads go figure happy days sherrye
the learn as we go silk purse farm
farmgirl #1014
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melody
True Blue Farmgirl
3335 Posts
Melody
The Great North Woods in the Land of Hiawatha
USA
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
11303 Posts |
Posted - Jun 17 2010 : 08:45:08 AM
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I guess they are all just born with that gene. The yard still looks really good when he's done. At least til everything starts wilting in death.
Kris
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vegetarian farmer
True Blue Farmgirl
249 Posts
Jane
Freedom
pa
USA
249 Posts |
Posted - Jun 17 2010 : 09:10:21 AM
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Well I am glad that there are others with these type of husbands. I went outside to find an entire grape vine with small grapes cut down with a hedge trimmer and lying dead on the grass. No grape jam that year. Or the loss of 25 peonies because they get mowed down before they develop blooms and after a few years of this they do not come back. But if I went into his shop and started messing with his tools , well he would have a fit .I do not permit him in the gardens because his weeding removes everything good or bad. I think I found a solution. We got a trail cutter now so any spare time he is out cutting the horse field. That way he can stay away from all food producing plants. The horses have to watch out though. If they stand still too long...
Jane
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Jun 17 2010 : 10:16:58 AM
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Jane, I just visited your blog and saw where you got bit by a mosquito yesterday. If you have plantain in your yard, and you probably do with horses, just pick a few leaves and wash them good, chew them in your mouth and put it on your eye. This will help with the swelling. It's great for bee stings too. But you should do it right when it happens. So I don't know if it will be as speedy a day later. But it wouldn't hurt to try since you need to look beautiful Saturday. Plantain is the long leaved weed that grows in the yard low to the ground in spirals with the veins growing long ways up the leaf. It really doesn't taste bad. kind of like lettuce.
So you have one of these guys too? He really sounds bad. Geeze, you'd think he could tell it's a grape vine. But I don't know. Mine's done the same thing with the wild vines all over the fences. I always wanted to let them grow but not him. And your poor horses!
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
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vegetarian farmer
True Blue Farmgirl
249 Posts
Jane
Freedom
pa
USA
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Posted - Jun 17 2010 : 2:14:31 PM
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Thanks for the idea Kris. I have plantain everywhere. Wish I had known earlier, but the eye is better now. Just a little droppy. But next time I am going to cover myself in plantain.
Jane
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cheneygal
True Blue Farmgirl
503 Posts
Suzie
Cheney
Wa.
USA
503 Posts |
Posted - Jun 17 2010 : 8:50:28 PM
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You girls just reminded me of something I'd forgotten.....probably 15 years ago, I came home from work one day to find my hubby, dad and brother in our yard, all with chainsaws in hand, we'd had a "chainsaw massacre" in our back yard and side yard. I about died. I had a golden chain tree growing up through the patio (planted there), they cut down, a beautifully shaped plum tree they cut down, and something else, can't remember at the moment what it was that they cut down, ALL because they brought a 5 yard dump truck in full of firewood, and wanted to back it through the gate and dump it as close to the wood shed as possible. OMG, I never let the 3 of them forget that!!!
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msdoolittle
True Blue Farmgirl
1152 Posts
Amanda
East Texas
USA
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Posted - Jun 18 2010 : 06:27:10 AM
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Lol, y'all are too funny!
My husband is like a weedeater wielding murderer! One year, he whacked down my hydrangeas, and I darn near cried (thankfully they do come back). He was like: "But they were just sticks!" Yes, I said, but they were LIVING sticks! When we moved here, the previous owner had planted plants EVERYWHERE. All in the yard. I went and bought hot pink contractor flags and put them anywhere I saw a bulb. Of course, I dug them up as fast as I could, knowing he'd mow over them anyway, lol.
I came out the other day and found a suspicious, large iris leaf laying in the yard. He knows when he 'messes up' now, so I don't even say anything. For the record, he LOVES a landscaped yard like ours, but he just gets a little nuts with the weedwhacker sometimes.
FarmGirl #1390
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Candy C.
True Blue Farmgirl
823 Posts
Candy
Mescal
AZ
USA
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Posted - Jun 18 2010 : 1:07:53 PM
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Oh goodness Suzie!! I would have just cried!
Candy C.
Farmgirl Sister #977
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Jun 18 2010 : 2:27:37 PM
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Oh my ya'll. What some stories! Yeah, a man with a machine is dangerous indeed. I think something gets in their blood when they are holding something so powerful and they just turn into mad men. There's no stopping them. So no matter what we do it doesn't help.
And poor Suzie had 3 of them in her yard. That's way worse than just one. I wouldn't ever let them forget that either.
Amanda, just give him "the look" when he's done something. He'll know then.
Kris
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
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Posted - Jun 18 2010 : 5:20:50 PM
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Kris: I was laughing while reading your post. I understand exactly!!! My husband is just wild with the weed eater. I have "CROP CIRCLES" around each tree in my yard. There are a lot of trees. I'm sure from high up in an airplane, people must wonder what the crop circles are all around our yard. It is really a hoot to see. However, I don't have the heart to point that out to the man. I have mentioned to a friend about the crop cirlces while he was around, but I don't think he caught it. If the circles get any bigger, I won't have to mow much. LOL
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Jun 18 2010 : 6:45:51 PM
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There ya go, Marly. he's just trying to do you a favor! Maybe they aren't so senseless after all. Hmm.
Kris
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sherrye
True Blue Farmgirl
3775 Posts
sherry
bend in the high desert
oregon
USA
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Posted - Jun 18 2010 : 7:33:34 PM
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now you guys have me scared. papa is home tomorrow. first on list bury guts from butcher. second weed whack. i better follow him.lol happy days sherrye
the learn as we go silk purse farm
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