by OldGuy » 04 Sep 2024, 04:36
Odd/funny situation at work. One of the properties I maintain is a row of buildings along a narrow country road. There is a strip of gravel between the road and the front of the properties. A lot of weeds settle in the gravel and I keep working on removing them, but new weeds show up every time I go back for the next scheduled visit. I've been battling new weeds all summer far more than usual in past years. I even called the landlord to ask if it might be OK to just mow the weeds as an extra part of the lawn, but he insisted he wanted it all to be a gravel edge along the property line so I dug in yet again.
While I was working on them again today, a tenant happened to come outside to toss her garbage and we struck up a friendly chat. She asked what I was doing and I told her about the weed problem. She was startled and explained that her son thought it would be great if there was a lawn there instead of the gravel. He had been spreading new lawn seed all summer long and wondering why it had not yet grown into a nice lawn. Turns out we had been in a battle all summer long.
The conversation with the landlord was not more than 10 minutes before the conversation with the tenant, but both on the same day after months of fighting the weeds. Yet another example of something falling in my lap just before I needed it. I was able to tell her with authority to stop spreading the grass seeds.