🧑‍🤝‍🧑 / 🏡 That damn ground hog was wrong again.

[TerryP]

Looking at my yard knowing I need to get out and mow (for the third time this year)...but the A/C just kicked on. Decisions.

The beer at Parker's is 32°.

 

[planomateo]

 

[planomateo]

The drive to work this morning. 4" of fresh fluffy powder.

 

[XXL TideFan]

I clicked thinking homemade sausage……

 

[TerryP]

I clicked thinking homemade sausage……

Oconostata?

 

[TerryP]

The drive to work this morning. 4" of fresh fluffy powder.

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A walk in the back yard. (I don't use Pre-em in the back or any other herbicides.)

 

[XXL TideFan]

Oconostata?

No idea what that is?

 

[TerryP]

No idea what that is?

I don't know why I know this.

Chief Oconostata of the Cherokee. He was from Alabama and his name was translated to groundhog sausage.

I think it was in a book about South Carolina and a fort back in the late 1700's ... then again it may have been something I read in one of my seminars at Bama.

 

[bama alum]

A walk in the back yard. (I don't use Pre-em in the back or any other herbicides.)


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I hate those damn weeds.

 

[TerryP]

I hate those damn weeds.

Poa Annua? If you spend a lot of time on your turf, it's a pain in the neck unless you use preventative measures (pre-em mentioned earlier.)

I still find it crazy they still use that strain of bluegrass on golf greens.

 

[bama alum]

Poa Annua? If you spend a lot of time on your turf, it's a pain in the neck unless you use preventative measures (pre-em mentioned earlier.)

My lawn care service uses a really excellent grade of pre-emergent; still, these little bastards seem to pop up every once in a while.

 

[TerryP]

My lawn care service uses a really excellent grade of pre-emergent; still, these little bastards seem to pop up every once in a while.

If that barrier is broken, it's going to happen. Most of the time that'll be an inch, maybe two. I've seen dogs (male) scratch enough after taking a piss where's it's torn up...literally seen strips of Poa Annua like a divot because folks let their dogs out.

I've been using Pendimethalin for years because it's the only thing I've had success with controlling both seasons of crabgrass.

I sold a lawn service back in the early 90's to Orkin when they jumped into the business...to say the least, I do my own.

 

[bama alum]

If that barrier is broken, it's going to happen. Most of the time that'll be an inch, maybe two. I've seen dogs (male) scratch enough after taking a piss where's it's torn up...literally seen strips of Poa Annua like a divot because folks let their dogs out.

I've been using Pendimethalin for years because it's the only thing I've had success with controlling both seasons of crabgrass.

I sold a lawn service back in the early 90's to Orkin when they jumped into the business...to say the least, I do my own.

If I was as knowledgeable as you, I would, too.

 

[Davestwin]

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Yeah, but the payback must be well worth it! For me, Montana is the most beautiful state in the union!

 

[PurlJam]

I dunno… yesterday I was playing Sunset Landing in Huntsville in short sleeves and shorts at 72 degrees…today I’ve woke up to 2 inches of snow and a high of 33.

 

[planomateo]

57 here today

 

[TerryP]

A couple of snickers today at the expense of a guy mowing the next door neighbors lawn in a constant wind of 20+ with gusts 45-50. (And no kidding, a friend of mine was on his kayak in a bass tournament yesterday; will be today.) It's going to be around 26° in a couple of hours. By Monday, it "shorts and a long sleeve day."

A weird coincidence this happens when the clocks spring forward: like a reset.

 

[RollllTide!]

I can't remember when it was this cold in March in LA (lower Alamama)

 

[footballer]

It's spring time! Old man winter, Not so fast.

It was 1982 or '83 maybe, we woke up to 2 or 3 inches of snow in the B'ham area on April 1'st. Happy April's fool day.

 

[TerryP]

It's spring time! Old man winter, Not so fast.

It was 1982 or '83 maybe, we woke up to 2 or 3 inches of snow in the B'ham area on April 1'st. Happy April's fool day.

'85, maybe? It was my last year in high school in Huntsville and I remember the ice storm that hit pretty hard. I thought that was Feb. 1st.

That was a wild night. I remember coming back from a basketball game in Decatur and seeing the electrical lines breaking on the horizon. It looked like a fireworks display in how it lit the sky. (One of the few times we won on a road trip there.)