Wicked Weed Whacker

At the beginning of Summer, the girls and I decided that we were going to do something that we had never done before--grow a vegetable garden. A good friend of ours brought his rototiller over and dug up the portion of our yard that we chose. It amounted to just a little over the size of a postage stamp. We thought that we would start out small the first time and grow later. Sounds good, huh?

We had so much fun planting the plants and sowing our seeds. It was a big thril to see them growing and an even bigger thrill to see the fruits and vegetables take hold.

The problam was that the Summer was terribly hot. I kept up with the work fairly well until the temps got too warm for me. (My heart condition stipulates that I not be outside under 40 degrees or over 80 degrees.) Once the heat was rising to the 100 plus point, the weeds took over the garden. As time went by, the weeds took over that part of our yard. We just gave in to the weeds. It was too late for idiot sticks. We needed something more like a tree saw to cut these dudes down!

Some great friends of ours, M.M. and C.M., offered their homemade weed cutter. M brought it over yesterday and instructed Stan on how to operate it. Stan learned early on that this guy was capable of doing much more than just some regular weed thinning. So, he dressed in heavy jeans and tall thick work boots. He went out back and fired up the W.W.W. Believe me, it didn't take long for Stan to make mincemeat out of these weeds that had extremely thick stalks.

I found something upseting after I went in to drag off these fallen tree-like weeds. Underneath this forest, was a huge community of spiders, crickets, fire ants and a whole slew of bugs. Once their cover had been blown, they were running towards houses for protection. I feel sorry for our neighbors who are going to fnd these critters knocking at their doors...

Thank you, M and C, for letting us borrow this invention of yours!!! We couldn't have done it without you!!!!

VLE-B