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I spent a glorious day of doing almost nothing. I would have spent the entire day without even stepping outside, but Lauren wanted to dismantle the beverage pond.

Once we got back home, I did a walkthrough of Sommerer Gardens. The crape myrtle I planted the other day is blooming. The potted plants are thriving. The cutting garden is lush. I went to the back yard, which I don’t often visit. It’s mostly empty except for a large hedge on the border of the property. I walked back to see if I could find any catnip growing wild. I didn’t find any, but I found an interesting weed.

The neighbor clips this hedge every three years or so.  It makes Lauren sick with guilt.

These weeds grow wild all over Nebraska. I thought it was funny to find one in the back yard.

Yes, it is what you think it is.

17 Comments

  1. Carol

    Gee, a false auralia (sp?) – you don’t see those just anywhere, do ya’? (ahem)

    Hey, Brad – take a cutting of this one, will ya’? Maybe we can start propagating these at school! This might be a relaxing hobby for us all in light of how hectic the coming year promises to be.

    [Peggy – wonder if Brad heard the comment you made to me about your vision for the 2008-2009 school year at BLS?]

  2. Beth

    Maybe that’s what would grow in the dead space on the west side of our shed. Yes. Yes, sir. We need ourselves some mary jane.

  3. Lauren

    Great. There’s weed growing in my yard. There’s probably a hooker in my shed, too.

    • Peggy

      HA!!!! You kill me!

    • Karla

      Better than an dead hooker in the box springs of your bed! Has anyone else out there seen Four Rooms?

      • Lauren

        No, but now I have a new paranoia. Thanks.

        • Karla

          I was going to post the link to the clip on You Tube, but Arron thought I shouldn’t because it contained adult language…

        • Lauren

          It’s probably for the best. I’m the only real adult around here and I’d be very, very offended. 😉

    • Kim

      I missed hookers and mj today? Miss one post…miss a lot! Glad to know you are having a high time in Seward.

  4. Peggy

    So the secret of the Enchanted Land of Seward is out!

  5. Mark

    I’m shocked! SHOCKED!!!!!!!

    Lauren Kay Hofman Sommerer, what are you doing with THAT in your backyard????

    Gasoline works wonders as a ‘weed’ killer. Just ask Phil’s former L.A. roommates, who had bunches of this stuff growing inside a metal shed in their garage with flourescent lights. It was fortunate they also kept a can of gasoline close by so I could help them control these noxious pests.

    • Lauren

      Ha – you’re a weed killer. 🙂

      I just saw this comment, so since I’ve had a bunch of time to come up with a rock-solid defense, let me just say…. Dude! It’s all good.

      • Lauren

        Everybody knows I’m kidding, right?

        • Peggy

          … yea, it can’t ALL be good!

  6. Mark

    You know Seward County has a noxious weed control board, right? Did they come by and take care of this problem? Did they? Or did YOU take care of it yourself?

    C’mon, fess up. When you say “all good” I hope you don’t mean it like, “Yep, those brownies were ALL Goooooood.”:

    • Lauren

      Well, being a total goodie-goodie, I worried all night that the police would come and arrest me for something completely beyond my control. At morning’s first light, the offending substance was plucked and deposited in the trash. Fortunately it was trash day. The end.

  7. deanne

    whew! I thought the crazzy control board would be on you like white on rice!

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