This is the money you could be saving....

.....driving a prius.

Make all the jokes you want but I don't enjoy feeding the Arabs.

Current gas cost per mile in Prius is $.06

Current gas cost per mile in Avalanche $.25

Over 9430 miles, I have saved $1886 in fuel costs.

Sweet !

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Wilson Tree Service

Never tried to download a video to Blogger but I will try with this one.

Here is Adam with Wilson Tree Service in the bucket cutting off 82' of sycamore tree with the wind out of the south at 21 mph and wind gusts up to 31 mph. The owner, Chris Wilson is to the right of the tree base. Also to mention, this was OVER a power line and a phone line.

Directly between the camera and the base of the tree is a can of Coors Light. He was joking that he needed a target to hit. I put one down for him.

Here is a Pic I took from the tripod about 10 min before they dropped the tree.

In being truthful, the can was not hit. A 6" branch kept the can from being crushed but the can was dead center under the main trunk.

Sweet !

You can reach them @

573-406-0032

573-231-1820

217-224-8050

Bayer Advanced - 0 Nutgrass - 2

Well, it's week 5 and all I can say is save your money and don't buy this. I put one treatment on with the hose end applicator as instructed on my front lawn first. 3 days later, I applied it to the back yards. The back yard is very well infested with the nut grass. After a week you could tell it did slow down the growth of the grass. Waited another week (per instructions) and applied the second application with a spot sprayer.







2 weeks after the second application I noticed brown dead areas in the yard. The nut grass was alive and growing like I had just fertilized it. And crabgrass, didn't touch it either. All the turf grass around the nutgrass was dead and brown. Nice.

The green in this picture is the nutgrass and crabgrass, the brown grass is my turf fescue that is now dead

The places where I applied it the second time ( pretty heavy) it had killed the nutgrass...and everything around it.





Did I apply it as directed. Yes. Both times.







At best I would guess that this is diluted Round-up.

Not Watergrass, Nutgrass

I was brought up thinking this was water grass. Damned weed grows like crazy when the weather turns wet so always believed it. Until it started growing in MY yard.

Did some research on the Internet on just exactly this annoying little weed is. Come to find out it is Nutgrass or nutsedge, and it's not too easy to kill.

You can do a search on Google to find plenty of info and pictures if you think this is what you have. It grows at a amazingly fast rate and makes your yard look like it hasn't been mowed in a week 2 days after mowing it.




I am currently trying this Bayer Advanced Lawn Weed and

Crabgrass Killer. Never been a fan of putting chemicals on
the yard since I have had dogs, but this stuff is annoying.


Currently at one week since application and I do not see the nut grass brown and dried up. The crabgrass and clover has turned brown and died, but not the intended target. Although I have noticed that the nutgrass has NOT sprouted right back up for days after a mowing. The instructions say to apply a second application 2 weeks after the first, so I'll see what happens.

Chlorine Generator - Update Week 5

Well, all is well with the salt water generator. Have had no problems with it and seems to be holding quite well. One thing of note, I assumed that you could set the level of chlorine that you wanted and it would maintain that level. Not so with this model. You adjust the level of chlorine generated by adjusting the percentage of output. I have learned that this unit pretty much can be adjusted by the water temp. If it's in the 80's, set it on 80%. 90's set on 90%. 20,000 gallons of water does not heat up or cool down very fast so it is very easy to adjust.