Grumble, grumble.....

nofearengineer · 07-19-10, 07:42 PM

I got home today, happy for a change. My buddy called, and he wanted to do some fishing before his shoulder surgery next week. We're going to head to a lake with tons of 5-8lb Bowfin in it. Gonna be fun.

I have been so pre-occupied with my lawn lately, I needed the distraction. Didn't happen. As I pulled in the driveway, I get to stare at my neighbor's absolutely STUNNING crop of crabgrass.

(Note: it's the bright green carpet all over her hillside that I have been unable to stop from spreading into my nice dark green bluegrass lawn.) So I am sort of annoyed at this point.

While I am muttering to myself, and futilely pulling at some of the weeds, I look up to the west and see this...

Great....more rain for my grass. I'm actually cheered up by this. So I go into my backyard to see how much worse the crabgrass is than I thought....and all hell breaks loose. I took this nice picture of the first shingle to blow off my house.

I made a swift retreat into my house, because I could hear my parrot yelling about the thunder and lightning. After it was over, I went outside to assess the damage.

I think the only words that can capture what I felt at that moment were "!$^@#%^@!$^@$%&@#$"

Remember I said I Mother Nature was cruel? I guess I should have kept my big, fat mouth shut.

Oh well, I guess I am glad I have home insurance, but the deductible is going to eat very heavily into my "remainder of 2010" tackle fund.

Bassboss · 07-19-10, 07:52 PM

Shoot nofear, today was not your day was it? Sorry 'bout that bud! When **** happens, I always like to remind my self of this phrase: The night is always darkest before dawn

Best of luck to ya!

Jim80 · 07-19-10, 08:09 PM

On the bright side you weren't in the boat when that storm hit

Jim

bassinbob · 07-19-10, 09:09 PM

Hate when that happens nofear. Happened to me and the Ins. co. told me they would cancel my in surance if I didn 't get the roof replaced.
Half my lawn is dying but the crab grass and other assorted weeds are thriving. My neighbor lets this viny weed go and no matter how hard I try it always invades my lawn.

carolina-rig-01 · 07-19-10, 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Bassboss

Shoot nofear, today was not your day was it?

Man you can say that again. Sorry for the damage dude.

bamabassman · 07-19-10, 10:49 PM

sorry bryce. your insurance will cover it i hope. as for the crabgrass..................ROUNDUP the neighbors yard!

TN_Bassin · 07-19-10, 11:30 PM

Well that sucks bryce. At least you can take solace int he fact that none of those trees decided to fall on the house.

Bassboss · 07-20-10, 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by TN_Bassin

Well that sucks bryce. At least you can take solace int he fact that none of those trees decided to fall on the house.

knock on wood.

Cavs1123 · 07-20-10, 05:22 PM

Man dude that has to suck!

Christopherkeene9 · 07-20-10, 07:41 PM

What we do down here is create a 6" "dead zone" between yards with round-up.

WTL · 07-20-10, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Christopherkeene9

What we do down here is create a 6" "dead zone" between yards with round-up.

I agree, you can create a no mans land that will keep the crab grass from spreading. 3 rows of barbed wire and a couple pill boxes with .50 machine guns pointed at your neighbors house should do nicely.

nofearengineer · 07-20-10, 08:40 PM

The worst part is, she is a really nice old lady. Really nice. She even pays a lawn service to cut and trim her lawn. I just wish they would spray for weeds. She had one particularly nasty weed that I told her I would spray for myself, and she was cool with that. I just can't afford to do a whole lawn prevention program for her.

Oh well, the insurance company's contractor came out and straightened out my shingles to at least be rain-tight until they can get someone out to repair everything. Bad thing is...I find out my shingles have been discontinued. so now I am sure I'm going to be fighting the insurance company to replace the whole roof....as I am not going to have some sort of FrankenRoof, ghetto shanty thing going on.

skeeter1804 · 07-20-10, 09:06 PM

Sorry about your house nofear, that should teach you to come home in a good mood.

keithdog · 07-20-10, 11:16 PM

Thats a tough deal with your house Bryce. Nothing like Mother Nature taking a swipe at ya! As for the crab grass, you can give it to me for my back yard. I'll take anything back there the way the two dogs tear up the back yard!

WTL · 07-21-10, 02:14 PM

MississippiBoy · 07-21-10, 03:11 PM

Thanks, Billy....now I have to go find somewhere online I can download a clone of the original game and play it....anybody know where I can find that?

WaffleJaw · 07-21-10, 03:19 PM

Is that the original Zelda?

WTL · 07-21-10, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by MississippiBoy

Thanks, Billy....now I have to go find somewhere online I can download a clone of the original game and play it....anybody know where I can find that?

theoldcomputer.net

I love that game, lol.

Christopherkeene9 · 07-21-10, 08:17 PM

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Originally Posted by nofearengineer

I just wish they would spray for weeds.

Don't know how IN state laws are written. But here in Florida that is illegal for 99% of the lawn maintenance company's to do

nofearengineer · 07-21-10, 08:23 PM

Indiana, though it voted blue last election, is still pretty free. We have lots of lawn services that will spray everything you want up here.

However, I may try something different next year. I overseeded this Spring, so I was sort of in a sling about pre-emergent herbicides. I'm going to overseed again this fall, but not in the spring, so I'm going to be able to try some corn gluten meal, which is supposedly very good for preventing all kind of annual weeds. Then I'll just spot hit any bad weeds I can't get rid of by pulling, and I should be down to pretty much a pure bluegrass/tall fescue lawn. A guy can hope, anyway.

07-19-10, 07:42 PM	#1
nofearengineer BassFishin.Com Premier Elite Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Southwest IN Posts: 5,630	Grumble, grumble..... I got home today, happy for a change. My buddy called, and he wanted to do some fishing before his shoulder surgery next week. We're going to head to a lake with tons of 5-8lb Bowfin in it. Gonna be fun. I have been so pre-occupied with my lawn lately, I needed the distraction. Didn't happen. As I pulled in the driveway, I get to stare at my neighbor's absolutely STUNNING crop of crabgrass. (Note: it's the bright green carpet all over her hillside that I have been unable to stop from spreading into my nice dark green bluegrass lawn.) So I am sort of annoyed at this point. While I am muttering to myself, and futilely pulling at some of the weeds, I look up to the west and see this... Great....more rain for my grass. I'm actually cheered up by this. So I go into my backyard to see how much worse the crabgrass is than I thought....and all hell breaks loose. I took this nice picture of the first shingle to blow off my house. I made a swift retreat into my house, because I could hear my parrot yelling about the thunder and lightning. After it was over, I went outside to assess the damage. I think the only words that can capture what I felt at that moment were "!$^@#%^@!$^@$%&@#$" Remember I said I Mother Nature was cruel? I guess I should have kept my big, fat mouth shut. Oh well, I guess I am glad I have home insurance, but the deductible is going to eat very heavily into my "remainder of 2010" tackle fund. __________________ Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

07-19-10, 07:52 PM	#2
Bassboss BassFishin.Com Premier Elite Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Shawano, WI Posts: 7,761	Shoot nofear, today was not your day was it? Sorry 'bout that bud! When **** happens, I always like to remind my self of this phrase: The night is always darkest before dawn Best of luck to ya! __________________ If you can't fix it with heavy squats or fish oil, you're probably going to die.

07-19-10, 08:09 PM	#3
Jim80 BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Thomaston CT Posts: 3,862	On the bright side you weren't in the boat when that storm hit Jim __________________ In memory of Zooker 1/11/73-7/2/2010. You will be sorely missed and never forgotten.

07-19-10, 09:09 PM	#4
bassinbob BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Pitts. Pa. Posts: 3,801	Hate when that happens nofear. Happened to me and the Ins. co. told me they would cancel my in surance if I didn 't get the roof replaced. Half my lawn is dying but the crab grass and other assorted weeds are thriving. My neighbor lets this viny weed go and no matter how hard I try it always invades my lawn. __________________ you can have my fishin rod when ya take it from my cold dead hands

07-19-10, 10:49 PM	#6
bamabassman BassFishin.Com Premier Elite Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: cedar bluff, alabama Posts: 15,292	sorry bryce. your insurance will cover it i hope. as for the crabgrass..................ROUNDUP the neighbors yard! __________________ so many lures, so little time.

07-19-10, 11:30 PM	#7
TN_Bassin BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Bon Aqua,TN Posts: 1,013	Well that sucks bryce. At least you can take solace int he fact that none of those trees decided to fall on the house. __________________ Other anglers are tough, but the fish are the real competition.

07-20-10, 05:22 PM	#9
Cavs1123 BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Bellevue, Ohio Posts: 1,398	Man dude that has to suck! __________________ Tom

07-20-10, 07:41 PM	#10
Christopherkeene9 BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Oviedo, Fla Posts: 2,270	What we do down here is create a 6" "dead zone" between yards with round-up.

07-20-10, 08:40 PM	#12
nofearengineer BassFishin.Com Premier Elite Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Southwest IN Posts: 5,630	The worst part is, she is a really nice old lady. Really nice. She even pays a lawn service to cut and trim her lawn. I just wish they would spray for weeds. She had one particularly nasty weed that I told her I would spray for myself, and she was cool with that. I just can't afford to do a whole lawn prevention program for her. Oh well, the insurance company's contractor came out and straightened out my shingles to at least be rain-tight until they can get someone out to repair everything. Bad thing is...I find out my shingles have been discontinued. so now I am sure I'm going to be fighting the insurance company to replace the whole roof....as I am not going to have some sort of FrankenRoof, ghetto shanty thing going on. __________________ Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

07-20-10, 09:06 PM	#13
skeeter1804 BassFishin.Com Active Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Edgerton KS Posts: 321	Sorry about your house nofear, that should teach you to come home in a good mood.

07-20-10, 11:16 PM	#14
keithdog BassFishin.Com Premier Elite Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: IN Posts: 8,308	Thats a tough deal with your house Bryce. Nothing like Mother Nature taking a swipe at ya! As for the crab grass, you can give it to me for my back yard. I'll take anything back there the way the two dogs tear up the back yard!

07-21-10, 02:14 PM	#15
WTL BassFishin.Com Premier Elite Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Huntsville, Al Posts: 7,466

07-21-10, 03:11 PM	#16
MississippiBoy BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: May 2007 Location: Ridgeland MS Posts: 3,923	Thanks, Billy....now I have to go find somewhere online I can download a clone of the original game and play it....anybody know where I can find that? __________________ I smell smoke, and I hear sirens. Do you think that's a problem?

07-21-10, 03:19 PM	#17
WaffleJaw BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Dallas,TX (DFW) Posts: 2,212	Is that the original Zelda? __________________ [nelsoncustomrods.com]

07-21-10, 08:23 PM	#20
nofearengineer BassFishin.Com Premier Elite Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Southwest IN Posts: 5,630	Indiana, though it voted blue last election, is still pretty free. We have lots of lawn services that will spray everything you want up here. However, I may try something different next year. I overseeded this Spring, so I was sort of in a sling about pre-emergent herbicides. I'm going to overseed again this fall, but not in the spring, so I'm going to be able to try some corn gluten meal, which is supposedly very good for preventing all kind of annual weeds. Then I'll just spot hit any bad weeds I can't get rid of by pulling, and I should be down to pretty much a pure bluegrass/tall fescue lawn. A guy can hope, anyway. __________________ Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

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