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I wonder what the heck the people who first landscaped around my house were thinking. If it isn't thorny it has unfortunate berries. When I first moved in and took out all the vastly overgrown bushes in the front they ALL had thorns. And when I say vastly overgrown, I mean up over the roof-line overgrown. Not the type of a little overgrown some trimming could handle - this was a cut it off dig it up type of overgrown.

And I've still got massive amounts of weeds springing up everywhere that is also very thorny. And the trees are laden down with messy little berries - and not the types you can eat. They just get *everywhere.*

Going outside is all kinds of dangerous with the sharp and the squish. Lets not even bring the back yard into it (there is one particularly nasty bit of vegetation I am on the verge of naming Audrey 3)!

Although, I am saving money for some landscaping stuff - probably won't be able to do much all at once. But little by little - like the rest of the house.

You know you've watched too much HGTV...

...when you talk back to the screen with gems like "At least I KNOW my stove isn't original to the kitchen! The house was built in 1955 and my stove is from 1961! Oh, wait..."

Yes, my stove is not one anyone can ever service anymore. It is too simple - they don't know what the heck to DO with it. It is a 1961 Fridgidaire Custom Imperial stove. For those that need visuals:

http://easterkiwi.files.wordpress.com/2006/10/frigidairflair1.jpg

and showing the cooktop (which slides out underneath the ovens):

http://obviousdiversion.com/images/photos/frigidaire/05.jpg

Mine is missing one knob, and is not as shiny as either of these - but then, mine has worked hard all its life. And a fifty year old stove is allowed to be creaky (and cranky).