{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "in the newest entry in \u201ckontextmaschine is at least not young anymore\u201d,  I did hella weeding in the side yard, like, I\u2019m proud,...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/171723954628/", "html": "<p>in the newest entry in \u201ckontextmaschine is at least not young anymore\u201d, <br/></p><p>I did hella weeding in the side yard, like, I\u2019m proud, after 3 years of this almost all the serious shit was gone there\u2019s just these two harmless things, this one with leaves with 3 circular pods and a white flower stem in the middle</p><p>(I garden in the true pioneer folk fashion and make up my own name for everything, these are \u201cstarbases\u201d)<br/></p><p>and this one (\u201dpurple tab false mushroom\u201d) that looks kind of like clover on an elongated stem until it starts getting purple tabs that grow into flowers and quickly catch pregnant, then dry and brown in place with the leaves pointing downwards looking like a bell-capped mushroom</p><p>and they\u2019re types that take quick to loose disturbed soil, like where I took out the worse stuff</p><p>(there\u2019s a part over there that I\u2019m letting rougher stuff stay and anchor root the soil because it\u2019s essentially a dune, I was like \u201cwhy is this ground so sandy\u201d and eventually my neighbour said that was where the last owners got a big dumpoff of sand and just left it. which was weird until I connected the dots to the Disney stickers on the spare bedroom door that the halfassed \u201craised bed\u201d in the back yard was actually an overgrown <i>sandbox</i>)</p><p>anyway I cleared out a 240-liter green bin and a 30 gal plastic can worth of them, and then seeded the ground with (sun/sun&amp;shade/shade mix) grass seed, hopefully this\u2019ll be the last year of any effort and it\u2019ll just be cleanup and mowing from there on</p><p>anyway think about all the bending over and all the hauling those bins, including semi-moist soil that stuck to the roots past a few shakes, and I was SO SORE</p><p>and I earnestly tried soaking my feet in Epsom salt bath for the first time</p><p>(interestingly, looking it up I got *more* woo about the power of the salt than I did in my SE Pennsylvania upbringing, where it was explained as \u201cyour skin lets things out easier than in so putting your feet in salty water makes homeostasis wick fluids out\u201d)</p><p>and it felt good but I don\u2019t know how good as vs. just elevating feet above the heart and it was tough to do both at once</p><p>that\u2019s the part where I\u2019m not young anymore</p><p>hey remember back in mid-2000s I Blame The Patriarchy where 2/100 posts would just be Twisty bitching about raising horses?<br/></p>"}