I’m coming to learn something about having your own home: it’s a lot more work than I’d thought! Maybe I should have paid more attention to Dad. Well, at least there have been no rats and badgers and alligators so far (knocking on wood).
What there is however at this time of year are weeds. Lots and lots of weeds. Coming up through every crack in the driveway it seems. And though my driveway isn’t all that cracked up (compared to this domicile’s proprietor) the renegade vegetation has proven to be a nuisance. From the road it can look like the asphalt has been treated with Rogaine. Or when Bugs Bunny rubbed plant growth tonic into Elmer’s scalp during that scene in “Rabbit of Seville”:
Weeds are something I can’t remember Dad doing too much about with our driveway, since it was a gravel one on a dirt road. But
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