Does anybody know what this weed is that is taking over my flower beds?

[JScott]

Originally Posted by Dollythehun

I grew up on a farm. One of the ways we cleared our fence lines was by burning them. I remember that my father had labored for quite some time to get that fence line started burning, and finally it caught. Shortly thereafter the fire department came. It wasn't a pretty sight. And we burn because we have to. However I do notice my neighbor hangs her clothes out. She's about 400 ft away but if the wind is right I'm sure they smell a little smoky. And it doesn't do any good to tell my husband not to burn my Linda has the clothes out. Linda and Terry have beagles, three beagles. I don't need to say more.

My dad has a 250 acre cattle ranch in addition to being a dentist, and he does controlled burns occasionally to burn away to cedar trees so the grass and other things that are good for grazing can repopulate that land. He lives in the country just outside of a pretty small town, and he's the dentist, so everybody knows him and they would do anything to help him (he's a likable, charismatic guy, and I'm proud to be his son), so when he does these controlled burns, he has a fire truck come out and observe and stand by just in case anything gets out of control.

[DirtyCoconuts]

wow, that is setting an example! sounds like a great guy, made a decent son too, it seems

[JScott]

Originally Posted by DirtyCoconuts

wow, that is setting an example! sounds like a great guy, made a decent son too, it seems

Thank you, I appreciate that. He's always set a good example, and always tries to do the right thing. I sometimes use him as a moral compass. "would dad be proud of me if I did this?"

[DirtyCoconuts]

i do the same thing!!! lol

[JScott]

Originally Posted by DirtyCoconuts

i do the same thing!!! lol

Then your dad must be a wonderful, honorable, upright man too. I wish everybody could have a father like ours.

[Dollythehun]

Count me in on that.

[DirtyCoconuts]

well it's not that far from father's day so.....

this is one of my favorite stories about my dad.

It's the early 90's and my family is at Disney World (we live like 3 hours away and so it was our "go to" vacation) my dad finds an envelope in the transportation center of the magic kingdom...it has like $1100 in it. My dad drags the family through a series of lost and found officers and agents and tells them he found a 'container of valuables' and that they should announce it with no specifics and to contact him at our hotel if anyone comes forward.

true to florida, like 18 people leave messages at the front desk and my dad calls each person back, asks them to tell him about what they lost and goes through like 12 people until he found the woman who had dropped their entire vacation fund before they even got into the park..

he not only saved someone's vacation and more but he taught me how you can find a way to do the right thing even when it seems really hard and that is sometimes what makes it the real right thing

WWJD What Would Jacob Do ? lol

[JScott]

Originally Posted by DirtyCoconuts

well it's not that far from father's day so.....

this is one of my favorite stories about my dad.

It's the early 90's and my family is at Disney World (we live like 3 hours away and so it was our "go to" vacation) my dad finds an envelope in the transportation center of the magic kingdom...it has like $1100 in it. My dad drags the family through a series of lost and found officers and agents and tells them he found a 'container of valuables' and that they should announce it with no specifics and to contact him at our hotel if anyone comes forward.

true to florida, like 18 people leave messages at the front desk and my dad calls each person back, asks them to tell him about what they lost and goes through like 12 people until he found the woman who had dropped their entire vacation fund before they even got into the park..

he not only saved someone's vacation and more but he taught me how you can find a way to do the right thing even when it seems really hard and that is sometimes what makes it the real right thing

WWJD What Would Jacob Do ? lol

i don't have a specific story with my dad that helped me in this situation, just that he always taught me to do the right thing and never take what is not yours. One day i was working at my garden center, and i found a lady's wallet on the ground. i looked through it to try to find an iD, and it did have an ID, but google didn't yield a phone number. The wallet also had credit cards and about a thousand dollars in cash. so what i did is I kept going through her wallet, and I found her health insurance card, and the primary insured was a man's name, which I assumed was her husband. So I google his name, and found out that he is actually an insurance salesman with an office, so i called his office, and asked to talk to him. I told him what I found and she was probably going crazy trying to find it, and he said yes she was, and it had never occurred to her that she might have lost it at the plant stand. I locked it in the register until she came to pick it up. It wasn't just returning the lost money that my dad taught me, but to take the time to go through the lengths I had to go through to locate her was also something my dad taught me. She took 60 dollars out of her wallet and told my coworkers and I to order ourselves a nice lunch.

If my dad hadn't been the man he was, that story may have had a very different outcome.

[DirtyCoconuts]

i actually rather think that is a remarkable story about your father...and the man he raised.

well played by the way detective

[Dollythehun]

I don't have a specific story to tell you. Only that my father endured 30+ years of married life that I wouldn't wish on anyone. He taught me faithfulness and honesty and passed from this earthly life far too soon. While no big examples stand out, he lived Christ every day. I was blessed to marry a man much like him.

You do realize the ground this "weed" post has covered? Pun intended.