Bits and Pieces

I never know what the temperature is here but friends from Corry are interested.  My son told me this morning to tell them that it is 30 in the shade and 90 in the sun.  We all laughed but there's surely a touch of truth in that.  It's been cold overnight but almost summertime warm in the afternoon.

Yesterday I learned about Bermuda grass, which I had mistakenly thought should be an ornamental grass.  A neighbor here talked to me about the yards when I was walking yesterday morning, and taking pictures of decorated mailboxes and some flowers.  He told me that all the brown places in yards were Bermuda grass, a real problem here.  His own lawn was made up of fescue and ryegrass.  It was luxurious and thick.  He pointed out a yard that was almost entirely brown.  "They have a big problem with Bermuda grass," he told me.  I had to look it up on the Internet but I found that Bermuda grass is something like our crabgrass.  It grows quickly and well and spreads like wildfire and gets into gardens and flower beds and is hard to root out.  If you have animal damage in your lawn, Bermuda grass would quickly grow there and fill in the damaged places.  However, it does spread invasively and it is not suited to really hot weather.  When the temperature gets to a sustained high, it does die back till it's cooler. 

He also told me that his wife wanted the "garden tub" out of the bathroom and have it replaced with a shower instead.  I should have asked what a garden tub is because I can't find out yet what it is, unless it's just a big bathtub framed into the bathroom.  I was thinking that maybe it would be the old fashioned bathtub that had legs, a thing which I haven't seen in years. 

I'm 13 hours away from home and everything is different here.  So many things are here for me to learn about.  I'll look for something new to learn about today.

Posted by: NJ on 3/28/2006 7:58:36 AM , 4 comments