Why are newspapers still around? Who buys newspapers these days? It certainly isn't teenagers looking for a used car. As a family we certainly don't buy newspapers, though we'll occasionally check one out if we find one sitting (discarded and lonely and only slightly stained) in a coffee shop. Read the rest of this entry ...
Last week there was a massive internet outage with Comcast (my internet provider). Users complained about it here. The typical rants that are (sadly) true: All major ISPs over-subscribe their networks, the support personnel are clueless, etc. Well, yesterday the same thing occured again. Read the rest of this entry ...
Did my first bit of yard work today and it got me thinking about something I was mulling over last summer: Converting from a grass lawn into a clover lawn. Doing a google search turned up the tidbit that clover lawns are trendy this year. I guess clover lawns used to be an American tradition in the early 20th century, too.
The benefits of clover lawns are numerous:
- Don't have to water (as much)
- Don't have to cut as much
- Is generally softer than grass
- Relatively pest free
- Don't have to fertilize
- Clover improves the soil by releasing nitrogen back into the soil
- Stays green longer
- Clover is aggressive and can grow dense enough to keep out weeds
- Resistant to dog urine
It all sounds great, but I doubt I would be able to just wait for the existing clover patches to take over my whole lawn as it might take a century or two. Yep, it seems that I would still have to kill the existing weeds and overseed with clover to really get somewhere. It's a shame because I'd like to do the least amount of work possible (aka "none").
If this year, clover could be ultra-aggressive and take over the lawn, weeds, grass and all, I wouldn't mind. Wouldn't mind at all...
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Someone in my family caught a bad cold bug so Joshua and I have been sick since Sunday morning. That kind of achy, stuffy, slimy, sniffling type of cold where it feels like your head is going to explode and you would tear out your sore throat and stomp on it for a few hours if your muscles and joints didn't ache so much. It's been awhile since I've been sick, so I've forgotten how much it really and truly sucks. Read the rest of this entry ...