Thistle

Along with home ownership (despite it being the awesome Forever Home) comes maintenance. I mentioned a while back that we were starting to get grass growing out in the front yard, coming up through the rocks & gravel. It was cute at first. It stopped being cute a while back when the grass spread all over and the weeds joined the party.

Before the nice neighbors who we like were moved to say anything “polite,” and before I tried to kill myself doing yard work like I’m 50 years younger using time that I don’t have and haven’t had in 50 years, we brought in a pro today.

But before he got here, I went out and took some “before” pictures, and found a few that are flower-like, in a desert, hardscrabble, tough-as-nails sort of way.

Out in the back yard I found this thistle of some sort.

The good news is that Eddie did a great job at a reasonable price and will be back every two weeks to keep this sort of thing from happening again.

Congratulations! The Money Pit now has its own gardener!