I still haven’t spread the mulch that was delivered on Sunday. It’s just been too dang hot. When I get home from our teacher meetings, I go to the garden right away, but I can only pull a few weeds, then I need to get inside. If I wait until 7:00 or so, things have started to cool down. The last couple of nights I’ve been spraying poison on all the weeds in the back yard. The mulch will do a pretty good job of preventing new weeds from sprouting, but existing weeds sometimes have enough energy to poke up through a layer of mulch and keep growing. So I poison them. I usually just work in the clothes I’m wearing. I’m just going to have to wash them anyway, so why put on different clothes and double my laundry work?
Last night after poisoning things, I wanted to do one more thing: stake and tie up my eucalyptus tree. Because it grows against the brick wall in my back yard, it survived the winter with no problem at all, but it’s really leaning. I was just stepping into the area against the back wall when the mulberry tree dropped a mulberry on me. On one of my favorite shirts. I hate that tree.
I like that shirt, too! Stupid tree. Perhaps you could start wearing purple all the time? Or garden shirtless!
Shirtless? Bite your tongue!
Brad, I’m sorry that stupid tree pooped on your shirt. I’m also sorry that it happened to THAT shirt. I liked its bumpiness.
Is that a white shirt? Why can’t you bleach it? That should take care of the stain.
As for the tree, you should deal with it with a shovel, like you do everything else in your garden is “bad.”
Real men are scared of bleach.
Fair enough.
Why?
Real men don’t discuss their fears.
Soak it in oxyclean for a couple days.
I didn’t know there was another use for my oxycontin-thanks for the tip!
In the words of The Zohan: “No nononononononono!”
[…And can I guess why you even have access to that particular “chemical”? Does it have anything to do with relieving the pain of those nine days of meetings??[
So I spent about a half hour searching the internet for you, looking for ways to get mulberry stains out of clothing. I found out two things. I have no life … and I am sorry to say, that I could not find any good answers for that particular stain. Sorry about your shirt.
I think bleach is worth a try, but I also don’t think it will work. I have so little hope that I didn’t even consider an internet search, and I look up everything.
Maybe our Girl Scouts troop should have a shirt-burning ceremony.
hehe…kiwe-you funny!
My research says to rub mulberry stains with “green mulberry”—what ever that is. Do you have green mulberry? Are they the leaves?
Or you could dye the shirt mulberry—or I have some white out you could use—or you could simple roll a pack of cigarettes up in that sleeve when you wear it to hide the stains …
I think the green mulberry would be the unripened mulberries, which are green.
How about tie-dying the shirt?
(Don’t you love how these women look for solutions??!)
BTW: Have you & Beth done something to offend the purple gods?
There will be no public mention of Beth’s tragedy. Besides, it’s all fixed.
Speaking of Beth’s tragedy … Brad walked in at 8:45 this morning and said, “Sorry I’m late. My sister had a hair tragedy.”
Ha! That’s golden!
Tell me Beth didn’t turn her hair purple…!
A quick way to get rid of stains is to cut them out…No more stains.
Have you tried that method on your striped shirt?
Sleeveless..sexy.
How about this?
http://www.tibetantreasures.com/pics/ttmerch/clothing/jedpinksidesmile.jpg