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Bay, as long as you respect your elders we'll get along fine. I do resemble and appreciate your remark.

Dirtmechanic, I use a desktop so cannot tell you how to get your location to show up. Hopefully someone that uses a phone can help you. Which operating system you use can even make a difference in how to do that.
Currently it is a Google Pixel 2 xl. I guess that is a android OS of the latest config as we head toward Chromium OS being the thesis OS across all these devices.
 

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Updated my earlier post with more pics of Grandsons :)
#1 Grandson at 2 yr. helping Papa plant peas
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#1 Grandson last Father's Day
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#2 Grandson last Father's Day
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Welcome from Washington state, glad you joined us. I like that compost spreader I see them being used on lawn to top dress them.
Its tough but I really do try to avoid shovels. Sometimes I cannot avoid it, but I do try! My front yard is just large enough to make me suffer hauling wheelbarrows about. Here is what our winters look like out front.
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Its tough but I really do try to avoid shovels. Sometimes I cannot avoid it, but I do try! My front yard is just large enough to make me suffer hauling wheelbarrows about. Here is what our winters look like out front.
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WOW I love your yard! So envious :D Mine is a postage stamp by comparison and not nearly the View!
 

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Nice place! And you mean to tell me that it's not shovel ready? :th
Thanks and I think shoveling is age related. The yard was not that big 20 years ago.

WOW I love your yard! So envious :D Mine is a postage stamp by comparison and not nearly the View!

Thank you. I would not want it larger because of the upkeep, but it introduced me to gardening and I have come to enjoy it so much myself.
 

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What is planted at the base of the crepe myrtles? Those are crepe myrtles along the drive, right?
Yes they are crepes with boxwoods. I gave them a haircut to allow a replacment for one in the middle to catch up in height. They do grow slow so I am using some auxin called superthrive to get it up high and then I will try some cytokenin fruit set spray to get it to fluff out. Still I doubt it will match exactly by next year.
 

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