Just catching up with member posts so the wordy girly wanted to respond: Loved what you wrote @zep, “Weeds get a bad rap!” I’m laughing in agreement. If our county fair offered competition for “best weeds” like they do for quilts and pickled okra, mine would be in the running for a blue ribbon!

@pollyanne, Over the years my sleep and waking patterns changed dramatically. If I sleep in until 8 or 9 am now, I think I’ve lost the better part of my day. Vbg Not sure what the temp was on the early morning walk but if we are experiencing triple digit heat on May 1st, I can only dread what a scorcher the summer will be.

We’ve been on twice/week outdoor sprinkler restrictions for several years. Drought worthy plants are the name of the game here and the challenge will be to keep those alive with hand watering.

@lioness, I’ve plucked many a tender dandelion leaf to sample but they always tasted so bitter. Sounds like your hubby may have sautéed them like I
I do, using olive oil and a splash of apple vinegar with spinach, kale or swiss chard for a wilted salad or omelet. Do you remember how he prepared them? I’ve heard of dandelion wine but never got to sample any. Now, an apricot cordial or glass of blackberry wine is another matter entirely! Smiles And hats off to you for crediting your walks to the loss of 5 pounds. Since I have the opposite challenge, would you consider a cyber share with me? I mean if you don’t have someone else in mind for them???

@zep and@robbie1956, Thanks for reading between the lines on my earlier post. I am mortified that my impulsive share may have had unintended consequences. Feisty: Remember you have duct tape, use it!!!!

We can only hope but I fear that “your saint and my ‘abutt” are much more driven by the urgency of economic survival than that of saved lives through using a more considered and measured approach to reopening.

@jimhd I’m laughing at your take on weeds. The old adage of : “one person’s trash is another’s treasure “ certainly applies here. Vbg

I sow Bachelor Buttons, (cornflowers) each year to encourage their multi-hued bursts of early color. And when my feverfew eventually died out, I was thrilled to bring back seeds from my daughter’s new home to restart them in a few of my beds.

You have to remember that this is the same gal who liberally spends retirement dollars on liberal annual purchases of soil amendments to soften concrete hard clay for some patches of beauty. I will confess that the few spindly twigs of evening primroses given me a few years have now created hours of plucking because of their unexpected spread. Your choke cherry sounds like the sprawl of planted honeysuckle that nearly took over my yard before spending big dollars to get it eradicated. We live and learn, yes? Smiles

@gingerw, like you I spend far too much time going after plum and pecan tree sprouts that are the very devil to uproot.

@sueinmn, I like your analogy of the virus particle as a “speck of dust not a cockroach”. We in west Tx have a liberal share of those dratted cockroach varmits as well!

I'm off for another "bonus" morning walk before doing some more Johnson grass weed pulling in a back flower bed.