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[odycee]

Happy Birthday elvinborn!!!

Have a good one!

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A handy tip for you all: when pulling ragwort up out of a large patch of grass, nettles and thistles, be careful - it hurts like a bitch when you accidentally grab a nettle with your right hand and simultaniously get thistle spiked on the bum.

Sweet, sweet antihistamine cream...

Damn you nettles. DAMN YOU!

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[fourleftxaviers.livejournal.com]

Owww. This kind of story is exactly why I avoid gardening like the plague.

[odycee.livejournal.com]

I never do gardening either. This is unavoidable having a horse stuff. Ragwort is a poisonous weed that you have to remove from the field - so I seem to have spent a lot of my spare time recently pushing wheelbarrows of dead weeds up hills (not to mention the usual barrows of shit).

I've put my vote in for flattening the hill with some kind of nuclear charge and then concreting over the grass. My final master-stroke would be to insert corks in the horses bottoms thus reducing the work load considerably. Unfortunately, few people have seen the genius of my plan. *sigh*

[fourleftxaviers.livejournal.com]

Wow--horse ownership actually sounds even more scary than gardening. On the other hand, it does have the nice bonus part where you have a horse. :D

Corks are a good plan...have diapers been considered?

[elvinborn.livejournal.com]

thank you muchly ♥

This is precisely why I let the grounds guy take care of thistles and weeds. ;)

[odycee.livejournal.com]

Oh how I dream of having someone to take care of all that stuff. Unfortunately there's the four horses (including mine) and their owners (including me) and we have to do everything - including maintenance on fences etc. Price you pay for cheap rent I guess. One day I'll win the lottery and be able to afford to stable my horse somewhere where everything is done for me...

I was wondering, do you have ragwort over in the US?

[elvinborn.livejournal.com]

well, I work for a guy with lots of money, and the horses are his, and the property is his. So somebody else does the maintenance correctly instead of leaving me to rig things together. It's a perk

I don't know about the ragwort thing. If it is the same thing as ragweed (very noxious weed with small yellow flowers) we have it. I've heard that it's toxic to livestock, but the horses don't generally eat it. You see it more in cow pastures or fallow pastures because horse people tend to be more vigilant about that sort of thing. One of the many ways to look at an empty pasture and know if it's horse land or not.