Day 3,458: What I Wouldn’t Give

Weeded the CRAP out of the backyard today. So, here’s the thing: there’s a grass that grows wild in LA whose seeds are these foxtails, and when those foxtails are dry and brown, they get EVERYWHERE. Foxtails will embed themselves into the skin of unsuspecting animals—like dogs—and can require freaking surgery to remove. Well…today I was looking at a patch of weeds that Liz nor I had got to yet and lo and behold, there was a whole mass of foxtail-grass in there. Still green! Still time to rip it ...