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Today was a nice cold sunny day; the first after several days of rain, so it was a chance to get some outside things done: #1 on my list was laying down some Scott's Winterguard with Weed Control Turf Builder.  I've never used it before, but decided I would this year because the weed growth is ridiculous between now and spring. I thought it'd put me ahead. It's for fall application after temps get under 60 degrees. Also requires the grass be wet for application, so I had to hose it down lightly before hand. Then weather needs to be clear of rain for 24 hours afterwards. This is different then Weed & Feed, which needs to be watered in. #2 on my list was trimming back the lower portion of one of the front yard Pampas Grass clumps because it was becoming intrusive. Also pulled up frost-killed Vinca plants--though there are plenty of infant Vinca's around that weren't frost-killed and I'm sure a host of them will pop up fresh from scattered seed co...

Today's Garden Pic of the Day is a "mini-me" Box Turtle I saw just sitting on the block wall on Monday as Hubby and I were walking up the walk after coming home from the Fitness Center. He's sitting in my Hubby's hands, all of 2 inches in size! Such big eyes! Baby Box Turtle We released him in the back yard. Boxies are territorial--maybe he'll stay. ***** Today's other projects: Move the Houseplants Inside! It will be getting down into the 40's this weekend at night! All my houseplants happily spend spring & summer outside. This year though, one of the variegated Spider plants died. So I have one pot with a bushy Spider plant hanging in the kitchen and one that has just a few Spider babies in it. I hang a Dracaena plant in the guest bath and I have a Silver Arrowhead in the master bath, though, I must say, that Arrowhead was in pitiful shape and had to have a complete re-potting. Both it and the one Spider plant will need to re-gr...

Oh, man, a outside faucet in pipe on the north  garage wall burst around 10ish this morning---just shortly before I walked out the door intending to go to my Zumba class. I got to the car only to see a flood of water streaming down the driveway! Funny thing was my husband went into the garage before he left at 8:30 and everything was fine, then I went in there sometime after 9 to get my gym stuff and it was fine then, too. As soon as I saw the water I knew what it was---I ran back into the house and into the garage to see a spray of water shooting across the room. I dashed through the spray to the garage door, threw it up so all the water on the floor could escape more easily. Luckily, our garage floor is strongly slanted toward the driveway, so the garage can't flood and only the front end of the garage was wet. My shelf I keep all my garden stuff on was soaked and I lost a few card-board boxes, but that's it. This pipe has burst before, since it's in an uninsulated...