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HockeyDad Offline
#151 Posted: Tue, Oct 11 2022, 3:37 PM EST
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St Augustine grass is a weed!

I had a neighbor put out the wrong weed and feed on St Augustine and had to re-sod the yard.
MACS Offline
#152 Posted: Tue, Oct 11 2022, 3:40 PM EST
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I do have St Augustine. No more Scott's though. Used the bag and it seems to be working ok. I have Milorganite going forward. Also have a "calendar" from the local nursery telling me what to treat the lawn with each month.

Sposta put Potash on it this month for strong roots. Next month is crabgrass control and kill-a-bug granules for insects.
MACS Offline
#153 Posted: Tue, Oct 11 2022, 3:45 PM EST
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I do need to get some more Tenacity. Previous guy didn't take care of the lawn at all and it's got weeds like a mofo. The theory is to feed the lawn (and weeds) to get it healthy and then zap the damn weeds with the Tenacity.
Stogie1020 Offline
#154 Posted: Tue, Oct 11 2022, 3:46 PM EST
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MACS wrote:
I do have St Augustine. No more Scott's though. Used the bag and it seems to be working ok. I have Milorganite going forward. Also have a "calendar" from the local nursery telling me what to treat the lawn with each month.

Sposta put Potash on it this month for strong roots. Next month is crabgrass control and kill-a-bug granules for insects.

It likely will be fine, but St A. is sensitive to 2,4,D, the active ingredient in W+F.

Iffin you don't mind spraying the lawn a handful of times a year, I highly recommend a pre-emergent like prodiamine. It keeps the weeds from ever appearing.
MACS Offline
#155 Posted: Tue, Oct 11 2022, 3:57 PM EST
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Thanks. I'll look into that, for sure. I need to get this looking good again. It's coming along, but the side of the house where they were running the bobcat for the turf is a bit beat up. They laid down hard plastic stuff to run over, but it flattened the grass. It's already popping back up, but that area got browned pretty good.
Ram27 Offline
#156 Posted: Tue, Oct 11 2022, 4:02 PM EST
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1 for the Phillys Applause to dam close.d'oh!
HockeyDad Offline
#157 Posted: Tue, Oct 11 2022, 4:11 PM EST
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I highly recommend getting a yard service.
MACS Offline
#158 Posted: Tue, Oct 11 2022, 4:12 PM EST
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Looks like the "Tenacity" herbicide I was using is no bueno for St Augustine, too... so I have to get Blindside WDG herbicide.
MACS Offline
#159 Posted: Tue, Oct 11 2022, 4:17 PM EST
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HockeyDad wrote:
I highly recommend getting a yard service.


When I did my own yard in CA it looked awesome. Deep green, lush, no weeds, cut, trimmed and edged right. When I got a yard service it looked like crap... and the weeds in the other yards he was cutting invaded my yard.

Think I'll do this myself. Aside from the weeds invading the lawn, and the swath where the bobcat ran back and forth, it's looking a lot better already. If I can get the grass healthy again and kill the weeds... it'll look great by next summer.

If not... rip out and replace.
Gene363 Offline
#160 Posted: Tue, Oct 11 2022, 4:50 PM EST
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I take the money I'd spend on my grass watering, mowing/trimming equipment, feeding, cutting and bug protection sprays and spend the money on guns, ammo, and liquor.
Stogie1020 Offline
#161 Posted: Tue, Oct 11 2022, 5:46 PM EST
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Gene363 wrote:
I take the money I'd spend on my grass watering, mowing/trimming equipment, feeding, cutting and bug protection sprays and spend the money on guns, ammo, and liquor.

Gene, what good are the guns and ammo if you can't sit on your porch and yell "Get off my lawn!" to passerbys?
Gene363 Offline
#162 Posted: Tue, Oct 11 2022, 6:03 PM EST
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Stogie1020 wrote:
Gene, what good are the guns and ammo if you can't sit on your porch and yell "Get off my lawn!" to passerbys?


LOL I need a sign I saw while looking for riverfront property:

"If You Can Read This Sign, You're In Range."
deadeyedick Offline
#163 Posted: Tue, Oct 11 2022, 6:42 PM EST
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Gene363 wrote:
I take the money I'd spend on my grass watering, mowing/trimming equipment, feeding, cutting and bug protection sprays and spend the money on guns, ammo, and liquor.


Yep, When I was in college I worked on a country club golf course so when we bought our first house I got stolons from the hybrid greens and used them to establish my lawn. Bought an expensive Jacobsen front-throw mower and kept that lawn looking just like a golf course green for many years. Everyone in the neighborhood came by asking for advise but none wanted to put in that kind of effort for very long.

Was fun for a few years but I don't miss it at all.
Sunoverbeach Offline
#164 Posted: Tue, Oct 11 2022, 6:56 PM EST
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I loved mowing the diamond patterns in in the tees. That and free golf on weekdays were about the only perks
8trackdisco Offline
#165 Posted: Tue, Oct 11 2022, 7:15 PM EST
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RiverRatRuss wrote:
I do my/our own brakes, my daddy tought us boys years ago. most are fairly simple and quick to do. but now that I'm married again I've only done one other persons brakes in our driveway ($20 a wheel, I use this cash money for extra drinkin funds... Or Slush fund donations if ya get my drift!! Herfing ) Mrs. doesn't like the mess when towns folks drive by... she also don't like having to sit in the vehicle and pump the peddle while I'm bleeding them off... LOL

I got all the tools, so if'n you wanna drive down for a visit and herf... you'll have two pump the brakes and we can do it at my place down the road.. Beer Money!!! Herfing


I'd have you do my brakes- but only if the beer drinking comes after the job.

You can drink before and during androomi's.
8trackdisco Offline
#166 Posted: Tue, Oct 11 2022, 7:47 PM EST
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Why do painters wear white pants?
Isn't that the exact wrong color to wear?
MACS Offline
#167 Posted: Tue, Oct 11 2022, 7:49 PM EST
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8trackdisco wrote:
Why do painters wear white pants?
Isn't that the exact wrong color to wear?


Not if you're painting white.
8trackdisco Offline
#168 Posted: Tue, Oct 11 2022, 8:34 PM EST
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MACS wrote:
Not if you're painting white.


….. racist.
Sunoverbeach Offline
#169 Posted: Tue, Oct 11 2022, 10:40 PM EST
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Guy I used to paint for claimed it did start because the majority of panting was done in white early on. Said another reason was it was cooler in hot weather.

I've verified neither claim, but makes sense.
Gene363 Offline
#170 Posted: Tue, Oct 11 2022, 10:46 PM EST
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deadeyedick wrote:
Yep, When I was in college I worked on a country club golf course so when we bought our first house I got stolons from the hybrid greens and used them to establish my lawn. Bought an expensive Jacobsen front-throw mower and kept that lawn looking just like a golf course green for many years. Everyone in the neighborhood came by asking for advise but none wanted to put in that kind of effort for very long.

Was fun for a few years but I don't miss it at all.


A great lawn is a ton of work, beside the costs. I used up several lawnmowers cutting grass as a kid, and we always had large yards, but no more.
MACS Offline
#171 Posted: Wed, Oct 12 2022, 6:01 AM EST
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Well, I know why the Scott's Weed n' Feed is working... it's the Florida blend for St Augustine/Zoysia lawns. That's what the HD here sells. Makes sense.

Fire alarm battery died at 1am last night... of course. Can't die at 8am or lunch time, no. Gotta be while you're sound asleep. Brick wall
RiverRatRuss Offline
#172 Posted: Wed, Oct 12 2022, 6:29 AM EST
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Mornin Ya'll...

Rainy Drury ass day I can feel it in my bones... plus I looked out the kitchen window while making Java a bit ago. Herfing

62 with a high of 66...
RiverRatRuss Offline
#173 Posted: Wed, Oct 12 2022, 6:33 AM EST
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8trackdisco wrote:
I'd have you do my brakes- but only if the beer drinking comes after the job.

You can drink before and during androomi's.


Oh I don't drink when I'm wrenchin on chit or workin on anything. d'oh!

Androomi's.. wow theirs a name that I haven't heard in years... what ever happened to that whiner? Brick wall
Cheno Offline
#174 Posted: Wed, Oct 12 2022, 7:04 AM EST
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Looks like it's gonna rain all day. Not gonna be able to do much at work but sit in the car and wait. Think I'm gonna need to make a coffee run soon.
danmdevries Offline
#175 Posted: Wed, Oct 12 2022, 7:08 AM EST
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Smoked a whole bologna log yesterday. Made 1/4" slices and then pan seared them.

The boy has refused to try bologna in the past, but he loves hot dogs more than any other food. I showed him the 5lb chub of bologna on the smoker and told him it was a slice off a hot dog as tall as me.

He loved it. Haven't told him it's bologna yet.
danmdevries Offline
#176 Posted: Wed, Oct 12 2022, 7:18 AM EST
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Old coworker and I text often, haven't worked there since 09. He said he was going to Waldo Cooney's for lunch. I used to love that place, but again I haven't been there since 09. Ordered a calzone and drove an hour to pick it up. Grabbed a slice to go from their pizza carousel too. Slices used to be $2, part of the appeal of going there. Was down the street from my old house and I'd walk there chitfaced to get a slice. But the slices went up to $6 now. Granted it's a huge slice and insanely thick crust - at least an inch thick and cooked perfectly.

The slice hit the spot.

I cut the calzone in half around 1am and ate half of it. When they're hot and the cheese is gooey you don't realize how much cheese is in them things. But out of the fridge and cut in half it looked like thin dough wrapped around blocks of mozzarella cheese. That cheese was a good 3/4" thick. It was everything I remembered. Even now at 7am I am uncomfortably full.

Workweek starts tonight. Already dreading it. I've been looking for a new job.
Gene363 Offline
#177 Posted: Wed, Oct 12 2022, 7:26 AM EST
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Good Wednesday Morning! It's an overcast 65° on the way to 80° today, back to the range, we hope to beat the rain coming later today.
Ram27 Offline
#178 Posted: Wed, Oct 12 2022, 9:18 AM EST
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Happy Hump Day danm & y'all.ram27bat
MACS Offline
#179 Posted: Wed, Oct 12 2022, 9:28 AM EST
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We have a Rosati's about 5 miles away. I'm not a big fan of Chicago style pizza, but I need to find a local place to get a good pie.

I've got a corned beef brisket point in the slow cooker for dinner, though.
HockeyDad Offline
#180 Posted: Wed, Oct 12 2022, 10:20 AM EST
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Apparently real Chicago style pizza is a super thin crust pizza (often frozen ) cut in squares and fed to drunk people in taverns. Home Run Inn frozen pizza is a good example.

Deep dish is for tourists. I like being a tourist. I’ve almost got my Giordano’s copycat pizza perfected.
rfenst Offline
#181 Posted: Wed, Oct 12 2022, 11:02 AM EST
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MACS wrote:
Well, I know why the Scott's Weed n' Feed is working... it's the Florida blend for St Augustine/Zoysia lawns. That's what the HD here sells. Makes sense.

Non-St. Augustine fertilizer IS sold in Florida and will kill your lawn. Instead of Scott's, why not LESCO?
tonygraz Offline
#182 Posted: Wed, Oct 12 2022, 11:39 AM EST
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Around hearabouts it's a dirty trick to fertilize someone's lawn.
8trackdisco Offline
#183 Posted: Wed, Oct 12 2022, 11:54 AM EST
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danmdevries wrote:
Smoked a whole bologna log yesterday.


Inflation has made many people do things they normally wouldn’t.
8trackdisco Offline
#184 Posted: Wed, Oct 12 2022, 12:06 PM EST
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Dog walk and five miles of steps completed. A few stretches and push-ups. Moved some dumbbells around.

Two eggs, hash browns, sausage, breakfast bar, yogurt, couple coffees. Maybe some rhubarb bread next.
HockeyDad Offline
#185 Posted: Wed, Oct 12 2022, 12:15 PM EST
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Four Teams or Zoom calls done. Frosted Flakes cereal.
Stogie1020 Offline
#186 Posted: Wed, Oct 12 2022, 12:27 PM EST
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I had to drive down to Tucson today. I haven't lived in Tucson since about 2005. It's still a dump.
DrafterX Offline
#187 Posted: Wed, Oct 12 2022, 12:36 PM EST
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8trackdisco wrote:
Inflation has made many people do things they normally wouldn’t.



True..true.. Mellow
Gene363 Offline
#188 Posted: Wed, Oct 12 2022, 1:50 PM EST
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Stogie1020 wrote:
I had to drive down to Tucson today. I haven't lived in Tucson since about 2005. It's still a dump.


It does have good Mexican food and a crap ton of old planes.
Stogie1020 Offline
#189 Posted: Wed, Oct 12 2022, 2:01 PM EST
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You know, as I was driving I thought to myself that the only really redeeming quality is that it has great food. And old planes.
MACS Offline
#190 Posted: Wed, Oct 12 2022, 4:33 PM EST
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rfenst wrote:
Non-St. Augustine fertilizer IS sold in Florida and will kill your lawn. Instead of Scott's, why not LESCO?


Why not Bandini? I dunno... there it was, on my path through HD... so I grabbed the Scott's. Right now I have Milorganite waiting in the garage for the next feed.

Got a tool chest from HD today. Husky 46" in red. Has a power strip on the side where I have plugged in my Ryobi battery chargers. 9 drawers. Fits all the tools I have...

Also grabbed a rake and a shovel as well as some "hooks" for the "Fast Track" system already mounted on the garage wall. Got my yard tools all hung up.

I've spent so much money at HD this year, they have stopped giving me the 10% military discount until next year. Apparently there is a yearly max dollar amount... Think
8trackdisco Offline
#191 Posted: Wed, Oct 12 2022, 5:09 PM EST
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Stogie1020 wrote:
You know, as I was driving I thought to myself that the only really redeeming quality is that it has great food. And old planes.


And 305 days per year of sunlight, although that probably gets old faster than I realize.
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#192 Posted: Wed, Oct 12 2022, 5:17 PM EST
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Stogie1020 wrote:
I had to drive down to Tucson today. I haven't lived in Tucson since about 2005. It's still a dump.


Some parts are really nice near the mountains and it has some of the best desert hiking areas in the state. But yeah, Nogales North in general.
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#193 Posted: Wed, Oct 12 2022, 8:53 PM EST
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deadeyedick wrote:
Some parts are really nice near the mountains and it has some of the best desert hiking areas in the state. But yeah, Nogales North in general.


In 1991, was in Tucson for a couple March Madness games. Got liquored up and lost, looking for a liquor store. Found one is South Tucson. My buddy and I were quite a hit. People were jabbering away, laughing, pointing etc.
Couldn’t figure out what they were laughing at.

Only when the second or third person came over and touched us on the arm did we realize we were the only white people and English speakers. If we weren’t so smashed, we should have been scared.
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#194 Posted: Wed, Oct 12 2022, 10:35 PM EST
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I've only seen AZ from the air.

Could it be said Arizona is a flyover state? Think
Sunoverbeach Offline
#195 Posted: Thu, Oct 13 2022, 5:41 AM EST
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Morning, peoples. Enjoy your Thur. Or don't. Your call
DrafterX Offline
#196 Posted: Thu, Oct 13 2022, 6:05 AM EST
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Thursday is my Friday.. Mellow
8trackdisco Offline
#197 Posted: Thu, Oct 13 2022, 6:18 AM EST
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Considering offer myself up for bonus hours at the shpo this morning.
43 degrees now, topping at 48 isn’t the motivational tool I need.
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#198 Posted: Thu, Oct 13 2022, 6:29 AM EST
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MACS wrote:
We have a Rosati's about 5 miles away. I'm not a big fan of Chicago style pizza, but I need to find a local place to get a good pie.

I've got a corned beef brisket point in the slow cooker for dinner, though.


A good hint to use for decent pizza is look for local places that use NY Pizza in advertising or name. It's that foldable gooey triangle of bliss. I usually get a slice or 2...the lunch special...before I'd order a whole pie. We used to have a great place in town. Covid killed it. Well, that and the "Head Cashier/maître d'" was the "Cook/Line Chef's" wife and it was pretty common to hear heated discussions in the front and in the kitchen. She always had a glass of vino going...so there's that. Sad, because their pizza was awesome.
deadeyedick Offline
#199 Posted: Thu, Oct 13 2022, 6:58 AM EST
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Our favorite pizza was a mom and pop place about 2 miles away. The crust was very unique somewhere between thick and thin with a kind of cornbread taste to it. We went there so often that we just called their phone and gave them our last name and they would make our favorite size and combo of ingredients and it would be ready when we arrived. If there was an open table they were happy to let us sit down and eat there even though we had called in our order.

They sold the place when they were ready to retire but assured us that the new owners would use their recipe and make the same pizza. Tried the new place a couple of times ...... ruined! Place went out of business in about 6 months.
DrafterX Offline
#200 Posted: Thu, Oct 13 2022, 7:42 AM EST
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Still a big Godfathers Pizza fan... although my favorite Italian sports bar in Maryland made a fine woodstove baked chicken & spinach over alfredo pizza.. good stuffs.. ThumpUp
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