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  1. I'm sorry to hear it. I think that I'm through the worst of it but it was a rough few days. Yesterday I fell asleep at 6pm, and other than getting up for some water and more medicine a couple of times, I slept right through until I had to get up at 5 this morning. Today is much better and I even had the energy to cut the lawn this evening, but I have a feeling this cough is going to linger for a week or more. Hope you and the family are feeling better soon. We can't waste these summer days!
  2. Yeah. This isn’t allergies. At least it’s progressing into something else. I’d rather it get worse quick and be on its way, which seems to be happening. A day out in the sun while fully medicated helped to morph it too. Go Caps!
  3. Is anyone else having trouble with allergies the last week or so? I can't tell if I have a cold or allergies but I've got a scratchy throat, cough, cotton-head, and feeling lethargic and tired. I need to shake this quick because summer is almost officially here.
  4. 1.01 for the weekend, all of it coming last night.
  5. Ovi and his posse had a stellar afternoon and night with the Cup yesterday. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dc-sports-bog/wp/2018/06/09/tracking-the-caps-wheres-the-stanley-cup-headed-on-alex-ovechkins-wild-saturday-night/?utm_term=.d1c308c57445
  6. Combine the recent graduates and all the rain down at beach, I think the local delivery rooms might be extra busy next March.
  7. We were down in D.C. last night in the thick of it around the arena during the first and second period and had a great time, but it was the only time in my life that I feared a crowd. We got separated but managed to escape and watch the 3rd period on a big screen in Penn Quarters. Stanley Cup Champions. Amazing. I can't wait to get home today from work and watch it again. By the way, the April banter thread beginning around p. 18 is a fun read. A lot of us thought the Caps were just about dead after the Blue Jackets took those first two games. What a run!
  8. Roundabouts in this country should be abolished. What a disaster.
  9. The mosquitoes are out of control, and I wish that I had put up a bat box last fall. Also picked up just under a quarter inch of rain last night from the passing thunderstorm. June total at 2.45"
  10. It took awhil but it felt a lot like fall this evening while I was brewing. Go CAPS!
  11. Came home this evening to no power. Both neighbors on the left and right have several inches of water in their basements. We are dry so far but would really like to see the lights come back on. We (only) got about 1.5” today and thankfully the rain is stopping.now.
  12. I need to rally for the Caps game tonight!
  13. Today is one of those mornings when a I wake up, shake out the cobwebs, and then celebrate that I didn't do anything too stupid last night. A buddy and I got into a friend's Belgian sour homebrews last night and let our hair down so to speak. Now I'm debating whether a little nip of Irish whiskey in my coffee will put me back on even keel.
  14. Good stuff! Do you know the story behind this? Weezer fans have been trying to get them to do a cover of "Africa" for awhile, and then they did do a cover, but of "Rosanne." It's an entertaining story and worth a.Google, but here's where it apparently started. https://noisey.vice.com/en_au/article/pazg3g/meet-the-hero-teen-determined-to-convince-weezer-to-cover-totos-africa
  15. Part EC's problem, and elsewhere is the region, is also probably over-development. There's a lot of concrete all sloping into those tributaries around downtown. edit...I agree with Maestro
  16. Does anyone know a way to kill or control common English ivy? If you look at the picture above, I've got a lot of it creeping in under my Leylands on two sides of my yard from my neighbor's yards. They aren't deliberately growing it, so I could kill it, but I don't know of anything that I can use that won't kill everything else. Right now my plan is to run my edger along the neighbor's edge of the property just deep enough to cut the ivy and then pull it all out, but that's going to be a lot of work, and then I'll somehow have to control it to keep it from running back in. Not to mention that I'll probably end up with poison ivy for the rest of the summer. Anyone have suggestions?
  17. Yeah, I bag too. The fescue in my backyard is so ridiculously thick that when it stays wet for extended warm/hot periods like we've had, some type of fungal damage is inevitable. It's not bad from a distance, but when you're on top of it, there's no doubt something yucky is starting to grow. You can see the areas of yellowing in this picture. I got some fungicide today at southern states that'll fix it right up.
  18. I don't know how I missed EJ's lawn video above but I totally ageee with the fall aerating. The aerator in the video is the exact one that three of my buddies and I chipped in for about 15 years ago and it's still going strong. We circulate it between us every fall and though I don't throw a top dressing over the lawn after aerating as in the video, I do seed right away. The holes provide the perfect environment for the grass to germinate and after a week or so, the whole lawn looks like a bald man that joined a hair club with bright green sprouts coming out of every hole. As far as dethatching, I've never done it but if I did, I'm not sure that I'd do it in the spring because of I've read that you want to disturb the lawn as little as possible in the spring to keep from helping any seeds germinate. Anyway, thanks for the video EJ, and the reason I am posting is because with all the rain recently, and more to come, I can see the first signs of fungus issues in my yard. It looks like yellowing patches. If anyone else wants to treat it or prevent it, I've had good success with Scotts Diease Ex. It's not a fertilizer but a fungicide, and can be used once a month if the problem persists, though in the couple of times I've used it, I've only ever had to do one application. Finally, one more unrelated thing. I've been using my pickup truck as the weed and hedge clipping pile for the past week or two and haven't been able to get to the dump. As I finished up cutting the grass this evening, I noticed a bunch of baby praying mantises all over my truck. It seems that I harvested an egg sac in the hedge clippings last week and it's hatching this evening. Now I've got to pull the tarp out of the truck and let it sit in the driveway for a couple of days because I don't want to share my new pets! eta that my allergies are the worst that I can remember in years.
  19. I need a decoder ring. On topic, picked up 1.20" from the overnight storms and up to over 2.5" for May.
  20. Man, I don’t want any big hail. It’s looking awfully dark and ominous here. We are getting the outflow from in front of the storms now and it feels great. We’ve got it annual Black Eye Susan party beginning Friday morning and I guess after 12 years I can’t complain if we get a gulley washer, but hoping for the best.
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