Posted on 08/05/2013 6:48:40 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, August 5, 2013 – mawkish
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
mawkish; adjective 1. characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin. 2. having a mildly sickening flavor; slightly nauseating.
Etymology:
1660–70; obsolete mawk maggot ( late Middle English < Old Norse mathkr maggot) + -ish1 . See maggot
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
“I’m ready to live in the middle of nowhere”
Well, come on over-the solitude and freedom are well worth the lack of “conveniences”...
If we weren’t in a neighborhood I would love to just have a sparse yard with native plants. I always smile thinking of the deer eating away at plants just outside your yard. Was it you saying they eat wreaths and fall displays if they have corn or something on them?
The rest of my driveway is concrete, but cracks form and grass and weeds grow up.
So, I can either pour a brand new driveway, pull weeds out by hand, or spray weed killer a couple times a year.
I go for the cheap and non-labor intensive method.
I decided long ago that mandatory HOAs are an invention of the devil-they encourage planting non-native species, the use of chemicals and the waste of natural resources-like water...
The straw wreaths are the ones deer eat-if I hang one on the gate, I will just have some florists’ wire and ribbons left the next morning. They also eat any hay bales and pumpkins used in a display-they especially love those tiny pumpkins-I have to keep my fall lawn displays on the yard side of the gate.
This is a nothing unnatural zone, so it is ignore it or hands-on out here...
This is our first home with an HOA - and I assumed they would help keep the neighborhood looking good and resale value would stay high. A family on another block was just trash - got in back when the banks were loaning to anyone with a pulse. They didn’t cut the lawn and parked ACROSS the sidewalk - unreal stuff. The son was reportedly in a gang trying to recruit other teens - not sure if that is true but I did see one of their vehicles parked not in the driveway but literally ON the sidewalk, or straddling it. Of course they eventually lost their home but the HOA had to step in and have the lawn mowed and I assume got their money recouped when the home sold. But my point is they couldn’t really do anything about their parking habits while they lived there, other than send letters saying it was against the rules. So basically and HOA is worthless.
I think Monsanto squeezes the Roundup berries for their juice in an all-natural process. ;-)
I lived in a neighborhood with a mandatory HOA in the city once, and that was enough.
There were way more bad kids-and adults-out here until the summer people quit coming here-happily, when they did, it dealt a harsh blow to the meth labs and break-in artists. Sadly, when the economy here improves, they will all be right back again, driving insanely down the country lanes, crashing into trees and animals and throwing beer bottles in driveways and on the roads. I intend to be living in the community up the road where there are no summer homes by then...
Roundup contains:
Isopropylamine salt of glyphosate, water, ethoxylated tallowamine surfactant, related organic acids of glyphosate, isopropylamine
inert ingredients:
Polyoxyethylene alkylamine (CAS #61791-2)
Water (CAS #7732-18-5)
FD&C Blue No. 1 (CAS #3844-45
It is damned out here by the 1st ingredient alone-you don’t want that in the runoff into groundwater-plus, it is a non-specific herbicide...
Did that two days ago, waiting for it to die. That crap pump never works, I wind up having to pour it.
Scotts makes turf builder with allleged weed eliminators.
Yeah, for about a month.
Oy, I have pavers, and a steady Monsanto habit ...lol
2nd rate? Really?
Imho he is a few steps lower on that ladder.
The pump works for me. Much better than the old trigger grip.
did you get the industrial strength roundup? xshub swears by it. He’s constantly having to pour it down the holes where he cuts bamboo out. Our neighbor has a bamboo thicket which of course is insidious and always is popping up in our side yard. We knew bamboo was invasive, but not LOCUST TREES!
I hate locust trees.
Here the things you call “weeds” are just part of the landscape, because what you guys plant as “grass” will seldom live on the thin soil and it slurps up more water than a large family and small herd of cattle, which is wasteful. We plant Comanche Buffalo grass, Sahara Bermuda-stuff that doesn’t need supplemental water.
You have to xeroscape out there to have anything grow in that hardy environment.
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