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The weeds in front of the house got high enough to conceal the dog. It isn't raining, making it a good time to remove the weeds, leaving just dirt. If it rains, mud will replace the dirt . . . but we're pretty much past the brief time when mud might dominate.
When we remove the weeds from the front yard, it is time to also remove the weeds from the back yard. This year we had a problem: bees. As in a swarm that buzzes, stings and makes honey. They settled in since last May, the last time we trimmed the area. To remove the weeds, we must first remove the bees. The lowest price I found on the Internet to do so was $175. Delia, of course, figured she could do better and got the gardener to agree to do it for $50 with Delia buying the poison.
These are honeybees. They may be killer bees. I once killed off a nest of bumblebees, but they stung me several times, too. Somebody at the hardware store told Delia, while she was buying yet more poison, that honeybee colonies cannot be killed off once they've made honey. I doubt it, but Delia is already lamenting the money she expects she has wasted.
It's all my fault, of course. It's always all my fault.
And representatives of the City of Lemon Grove, seeing the gardeners at work, came around to inspect what they were doing and have threatened that if the weeds aren't cut down to the dirt level they will be back with a crew to finish the job. They did that once before. The crew they brought in didn't do squat and they charged us more than three times the going rate plus fines.
The weeds have to go. The bees have to go. The weeds will grow back by May and will have to be removed once more, as in previous years.
Maybe I should get a little tractor and ride around scraping the yard down to the dirt level all year long.
That might be fun.
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