Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Good morning crew,

Yesterday the wife called our lawn care company and got a quote on a round of pesticide treatments. As expected, the package they tried to sell her was about a million dollars.

The treatment would take 12 weeks and is designed to eradicate ants, fleas, ticks, spiders, most varieties of beetles, grubs, aphids, weevils, earwigs, chiggers, sowbugs, mealybugs, pillbugs, leafhoppers, cutworms, webworms, mole crickets, and, yes, mites, including clover mites, spider mites, itch mites, rodent mites and bird mites.

Basically, it would sterilize the ecology of everything except bacteria and protozoa. And then next spring everything would migrate from the neighbor's lawn back to ours and we'd be right back where we started.

So when the wife got home last night she discovered my alternate solution.

"What is that white powder all over the patio, the sidewalk, the driveway, the stoop and the window sills?" she asked.

"Borax," I said. "Five ninety-nine a box."

"Is it dangerous?"

"Probably not. But I wouldn't let the dog lick at it if she's dumb enough to try it."

"But what IS it?" She persisted.

"I'm not sure. It's like laundry detergent, but stronger."

"Won't that kill the grass?"

"I don't think so, but if it does we've solved our problem one way or another."

Laugh it up,

Joe

joe@gophercentral.com

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