[speaker001:] all right now since I'm from the great Midwest north you know we're right on Lake Erie uh I'm sure our climates are much different than yours are typically today we've got uh rain we're forecasting a little bit of sleet and uh which means I'm not gonna do any lawn and gardening today that's for sure
[speaker002:] yes I can understand
[speaker001:] so I don't know what's the weather down there and
[speaker002:] oh it's nice and sunny here uh it's uh little little Christmas uh crispness in the air
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh delightful to be outside
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and right now I'm watering
[speaker001:] yeah it's not are you really we avoid having to send you a little bit
[speaker002:] yes and my lawn is very green and my flowers are still blooming
[speaker001:] uh-huh well I have that
[speaker002:] oh you do
[speaker001:] I still have that we have mums and geraniums that are still holding their own out there uh lot of the other ones I've I've already had to pull out
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] uh at this point I'm ready to start putting in uh some bulbs I'm waiting for a decent some decent weather for that I got uh about two hundred bulbs I've got to put in
[speaker002:] uh-huh right
[speaker001:] but I have a uh mine's a new home and we just really did the landscaping this year so I've got about all the gardening I want for the year so I'll be anxious to to let it rest for a little bit
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] but uh somebody I talked to last week was said they had the uh they had problems doing some of the work down there because they they really had some heat hanging on
[speaker002:] well course that's a constant factor down here what you have to do is uh keep your uh keep your ground uh watered
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and uh the heat really doesn't bother you if you have the right kind of flowers
[speaker001:] yeah all right
[speaker002:] or and the right kind of lawn for that matter
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] I have a tiff Bermuda lawn here and uh it requires a lot of water and you have to keep it cut very short if you want it to look like a golf course green
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] I don't uh get to it that often so mine doesn't look like a golf course course but it is very nice and uh and shiny and uh very thin grass
[speaker001:] oh I see
[speaker002:] grows real close together
[speaker001:] uh-huh that's very okay it's very very different than ours because ours ours we get into a lot of combinations of rye and Kentucky Blue
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh plus the usual amount of crabgrass and weeds and everything else that pops through and uh but we've had an a terrible drought this year and everybody's going through the same kind of problems in fact we developed on a new lawn we developed what they call rust and it's a fungus which is very very rare but our whole area they're all new homes and new lawns and it was it was very very much in evidence this year as everything turns yellow
[speaker002:] turns yellow early huh
[speaker001:] well it just turns yellow where it shouldn't and you walk across walk across the lawn and your shoes will actually come out rust colored
[speaker002:] and it's it's not it's not a disease it's a disease and not a lack of a of chemicals
[speaker001:] no it's it's a fungus and they claim that it is caused by stress to the lawn it it won't kill the lawn but it sure doesn't do much for the looks of the lawn
[speaker002:] huh um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh the alternative is a lot of uh nitrogen overpowering with nitrogen fertilizer and certain chemicals but everybody is so chemical shy anymore that we steered clear of it and hopefully you know come spring come spring it will be cleared up and everything will be back to normal
[speaker002:] well I have grub worms here off and on I try to keep them under control they live right up under the surface of the ground and they eat the roots of your grass and then you have ground brown uh patches develop
[speaker001:] um-hum  oh yeah
[speaker002:] that's when you first notice it but you can put some uh chemical on that and kill them out and keep them under control you never destroy them
[speaker001:] um-hum you enjoy lawn work
[speaker002:] oh very much so uh we have a lake house down at Cedar Creek Texas seventy five miles uh north uh or rather uh uh southeast uh southeast of uh Dallas
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and uh I have to to grow uh rye grass down there because we're not there to water although we have a watering system no one's there to turn it on and I guess uh
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] well we don't have an automatic sprinkler either see so
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] uh or automatic on the sprinkler system
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] but uh you know the rye grass and the uh wild grass that grow makes us a nice lawn
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah it sounds nice Cedar Lake I'm not uh
[speaker002:] but oh it's a very large uh man-made lake uh in Texas it's about uh a hundred and uh fifty miles I guess in Fort Worth
[speaker001:] oh I see
[speaker002:] and it supplies Fort Worth with it's drinking water
[speaker001:] okay okay
[speaker002:] and then a hundred and eighty miles further south of there uh or rather a hundred and eighty miles from Fort Worth about forty miles south of Cedar Creek is another mammoth lake that Fort Worth owns
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] that it uses to water
[speaker001:] yeah that's interesting I never realized the uh the amount of lake