.... this morning sees the return of an old and missed friend... blue skies... and with it, a heavy sheen of frost on everything outdoors... the past few days have been gray with rain... makes a nice change, it does...
... the day's work - a fresh metric ton of Kentucky's finest horse dung - lies amidst the glinting ice crystals... waiting for my labored and smoky breath as I lunge at it in the frigid temperature with scoop and shovel later today... all for the good...
...sipping my coffee and mentally girding myself, hundreds of sparrows flit across the hard ground outside my window... using their tiny beaks to delicately pick up the fescue seed I scattered days ago, no doubt.. using the small sustenance to fuel their inner boilers.. save themselves from Winter's embrace... but still, in all the serenity that nature can muster this fine morning... one truth stands above all else...
... the little bastards are eating my grass seed...
Well, maybe they'll poop them back out on your yard.
God i'm glad to see the sun again after yesterday, though. We had pouring rain and tornado watches all day.
Bullshitted by trouble on December 6, 2005 11:26 AMThat's why I don't plant grass seed. It never takes for me.
BTW, I didn't realize you could plant grass seed in the winter, I thought it wouldn't take.
Bullshitted by Contagion on December 6, 2005 11:35 AM.. the Winter isn't very harsh down here... what seed doesn't get eaten will come up in the spring.. with any luck, that is...
Bullshitted by Eric on December 6, 2005 11:45 AM.... turd herder...
Bullshitted by Alaska Kim on December 6, 2005 12:53 PMI broadcast Rye grass about tree weeks ago or so and got enough water on it to get it up. It makes a good pasture for cattle but I don't know about hay burners. May be too hot for them-lots of protein in it. I just wanted it as a ground cover for my Bermuda and Bahai and it does stay green all winter
Bullshitted by GUYK on December 6, 2005 01:06 PMYou sure have been shoveling a lot of poop lately...
Bullshitted by Bou on December 6, 2005 04:22 PMDamn Eric, you could become a regular poopsmith.
I got a shotgun if those rifles are too much work to pick of sparrows.
I promise to shit on your front lawn next time I visit. Save you the trouble of importing it and all that.
Bullshitted by zonker on December 7, 2005 11:58 PM.. Zonker, you are all heart... I love you, man....
Bullshitted by Eric on December 8, 2005 08:00 AM