im in ur flowerbed, yankin’ ur w33ds (but don’t get my feet dirty!)
When I weed, I don’t go halfway. I pull on my gloves and go in with both hands—and sometimes I forego the gloves, but then curse like a sailor hours later when trying to clean the dirt out of my cuticles that’s days down into my skin. I pull and dig while sweat pours into the dirt, gleefully yanking out every green shoot I see that dares attempt to grow through the brown layer of mulch.
But when I yank out a handful of offenders and inadvertently spray my thong’d feet with dirt? Cover your ears—I’d make an entire shipful of sailors blush.
Yes, I can dig in the dirt with bare hands, wipe sweat off with my shirt, wipe dirty hands on my shorts…but get dirt on my feet & between my toes? Makes me homicidal, I tell you!
And the temper tantrums have nothing to do with heat indexes above 100. None whatsoever.
(But the front bed looks lovely and weedless now, I must say. ;-) )
For a few chuckles, here’s something roomie made tonight when she found my kitties asleep on her bed:
I always wear gloves when I weed… for about the first 5 minutes than, first one comes off to get into a tricky spot then the other…
Then I accidently grab a slug or snail… ewwwww!
That’s when you hear those words from my mouth! I’m just glad the neighbors don’t speak English, they’re such a nice old couple, I’d hate to expose them….
For the same reason I put on gardening clogs – don’t want slugs in the toes….
Haha–slugs in toes! Ok, not “funny” per se, lol, but an amusing image! :-) Wish that’s what I dug up around here…when I dig too far, I sometimes unearth roaches! UGH!! Gardening clogs are on my list, though; will probably get some this weekend. Although the clogs are a bit more enclosed…getting dirt into those will really drive me batty, lol!