As the huge gap in my blog attests, I have had very small amounts of free time recently. The server logs reveal that readership of this blog has dropped from marginally tiny to vanishingly small. Obviously, the right thing to do at this point is to make a better effort to find ways to blog anytime and anyplace, rather than only at home at night.
This weekend was beautiful. We spent most of it outside, as we've tried to do every warm weekend recently. We hiked a relatively long (5.2 miles) loop in the Bent Creek experimental forest, I planted some herbs in pots, and began working on tearing out the honeysuckle in my back yard, which has returned with a vengeance.
Every tiny millimeter of root I left in the ground has sprouted a little bundle of invasive, tree and shrub-killing joy. I've been researching ways to permanently put paid to the weed's account and discovered one clever idea. Take some of the Roundup concentrate, put it in a small covered container, like a cream cheese or yogurt container, slit the top and stick a cut vine in the slit and down into the liquid. This is more targetted than spraying Roundup everywhere, which tends to create a fair amount of collateral damage. We'll see how this goes.
Posted by brent at 08:52