Day 2: The Forest Infestation

After a rough first day reclaiming our house from mother nature, we realized we needed a break from the insidious lawn so we turned to what was once our humble garden.  What it now was however was something completely and utterly alien.  Imagine:

 except for 5 feet tall.  Luckily, these were weeds and we didn't mind mass murdering weeds as we did grass (we consider ourselves "reforming" grass) except oh wait, this was our GARDEN.  You know that place where people generally put plants they do NOT want to kill...

So we ended up spending the whole day kneeling/bent over pulling tall weeds from between the apple trees while others of us tediously dug up weeds from under the grape vines and blueberry stalks etc... I don't know how many of you garden or have pulled a weed lately but I discovered that one of the most satisfying feelings (oh boy... that should probably be a list sometime... more stuff to do Yay!!) is right when the weed comes out of the ground and you can feel the root coming out with it.  Some weeds are tougher than others though in fact, we found some regular old dandelions that had roots thicker than an inch in diameter.

Once again  by the end of the day we were all exhausted, but the garden was more or less weed free, only our grapes, tomatoes, onions, blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, roses and fruit bearing trees remained.  And at the conclusion of this clash between man and nature, we had come away with a clear cut (haha so Punny...) victory nothing destroyed by the garden or laid to waste by the weeds.  Even so, our combined exhaustion and waste of 10+ hours were both casualties in this battle...


The Running Score:


Graminoid Interfector + Garden: 20
10 Hours on Garden
1 Lawn Mower
2 Weed whackerss
7 Rakes


The Family: 17
5 (Half of the Lawn)
12 (Completed Garden)

Day 2 goes to me and the family.


That being said we also got a new computer for my grandmother yesterday and I looked into getting myself a laptop for college.  For some reason I had set my mind to get myself a macbook pro (I know I know, I'm ashamed too) but when I got to bestbuy I compared the specs and price tags and I honestly have no idea why I wanted a mac. Does anyone have any real reasons for getting a mac (besides the fact that it is pretty and shiny)?