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Muggles wrote:
On 8/7/2015 7:49 PM, J Burns wrote:
On 8/7/15 6:48 PM, Muggles wrote:
On 8/7/2015 3:46 PM, J Burns wrote:
On 8/7/15 4:19 PM, Muggles wrote:
These days I'm not sure who to believe when it comes to chemicals like
what's in RoundUp. I'd like to believe it's safe to use, but I just
don't know.

I play it safe by eating freedom fries in the morning and pinto beans in
the evening. Potato and bean farmers don't use Roundup.

http://positivemed.com/2013/09/17/15...-french-fries/

This page talks about the benefits of French fries, which they point out
are actually Belgian fries. I suspect that Belgian fries are identical
to my freedom fries because freedom from France is the whole point of
being Belgian.

#7 says without adequate potassium, you'll be tireder, weaker, and
slower in reflexes. Not good for working on a sloped roof.

I would have to read this right about dinner time. I quit eating french
fries because of the oil/fat content in them. After putting up that
shelf I'm good and hungry now, too. {{resist temptation}}

I'll have to measure how much oil I use. It's just enough to transfer
heat from the pan to the bottoms of the potato cubes. If it's a
tablespoon, and it all ends up on my plate, that's about 100 calories.
The government recommends that 30% of calories be fat, so that's a
fraction of what I need.

It's probably not more than 150 grams of potato. That would be about
600 mg of potassium and 140 calories. Hmmm.... 41% of calories from fat,
not far from government guidelines.

My butter consumption went down after I started eating freedom fries
every day. So I guess they help meet my fat needs. I use canola oil.
It's mostly monounsaturated, like olive oil, which Popeye loved as much
as spinach.

It has lots of omega-3, which is supposed to improve cognitive ability
for those of us who are a little slow. Maybe that explains how after
all these years, I finally figured out how to use a stud finder, and it
took only 15 minutes! I'm a regular wiz kid!


lol you're funny! I appreciate the humor.

I have southern blood running through my veins, and fried potatoes are
like home town cooking for me. The oil in them doesn't like me as much
as I like the oil in the fried potatoes ever since I had my gall bladder
out some years ago.

Missing Gall bladder? So you have weight problem and digestion problem
which cauases it. However small it is VERY important organ for us.
When talking about Potassium, don't forget Magnesium, you ought know.
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On 8/7/2015 9:40 PM, Tony Hwang wrote:
Muggles wrote:
On 8/7/2015 7:49 PM, J Burns wrote:
On 8/7/15 6:48 PM, Muggles wrote:
On 8/7/2015 3:46 PM, J Burns wrote:
On 8/7/15 4:19 PM, Muggles wrote:
These days I'm not sure who to believe when it comes to chemicals
like
what's in RoundUp. I'd like to believe it's safe to use, but I just
don't know.

I play it safe by eating freedom fries in the morning and pinto
beans in
the evening. Potato and bean farmers don't use Roundup.

http://positivemed.com/2013/09/17/15...-french-fries/


This page talks about the benefits of French fries, which they
point out
are actually Belgian fries. I suspect that Belgian fries are
identical
to my freedom fries because freedom from France is the whole point of
being Belgian.

#7 says without adequate potassium, you'll be tireder, weaker, and
slower in reflexes. Not good for working on a sloped roof.

I would have to read this right about dinner time. I quit eating
french
fries because of the oil/fat content in them. After putting up that
shelf I'm good and hungry now, too. {{resist temptation}}

I'll have to measure how much oil I use. It's just enough to transfer
heat from the pan to the bottoms of the potato cubes. If it's a
tablespoon, and it all ends up on my plate, that's about 100 calories.
The government recommends that 30% of calories be fat, so that's a
fraction of what I need.

It's probably not more than 150 grams of potato. That would be about
600 mg of potassium and 140 calories. Hmmm.... 41% of calories from fat,
not far from government guidelines.

My butter consumption went down after I started eating freedom fries
every day. So I guess they help meet my fat needs. I use canola oil.
It's mostly monounsaturated, like olive oil, which Popeye loved as much
as spinach.

It has lots of omega-3, which is supposed to improve cognitive ability
for those of us who are a little slow. Maybe that explains how after
all these years, I finally figured out how to use a stud finder, and it
took only 15 minutes! I'm a regular wiz kid!


lol you're funny! I appreciate the humor.

I have southern blood running through my veins, and fried potatoes are
like home town cooking for me. The oil in them doesn't like me as much
as I like the oil in the fried potatoes ever since I had my gall bladder
out some years ago.

Missing Gall bladder? So you have weight problem and digestion problem
which cauases it.


My gall bladder started going bad on a Sunday night. Had a sudden attack
and was on the floor crying from the pain for a good 45 minutes. I went
to the Dr's office Monday morning for an ultrasound. I was scheduled to
have it take out that Friday. Tuesday through Thursday before the
surgery I have multiple gall bladder attacks - excruciating pain to the
point I'd be on the floor crying, and they were causes by eating
anything that had even the smallest amount of fat in it. By Friday
morning I was ready to rip the thing out myself.

Right after the gall bladder surgery I had extreme digestion problems.
Couldn't eat anything with fat in it for a long time because I couldn't
digest the fat. Eventually, my body adjusted to where I could eat more
normally, but it took about 10 years to get to this point, although,
sometimes high fat foods still don't agree with me. The fat in fried
foods just me feel bad, too.


However small it is VERY important organ for us.
When talking about Potassium, don't forget Magnesium, you ought know.


I'd rather live w/o a gall bladder than live with the pain when it went
bad. I pay more attention to Potassium, but not so much to Magnesium,
although I'm sure I get magnesium in my diet.

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On 8/7/15 11:33 PM, Muggles wrote:

Right after the gall bladder surgery I had extreme digestion problems.
Couldn't eat anything with fat in it for a long time because I couldn't
digest the fat. Eventually, my body adjusted to where I could eat more
normally, but it took about 10 years to get to this point, although,
sometimes high fat foods still don't agree with me. The fat in fried
foods just me feel bad, too.


I imagine the trick is not to eat too much fat at one time.

I weighed my Canola bottle when I made fries this morning. I used 10
grams of oil, about 85 calories. Some of the oil ends up on the stove
top, where I have to wipe it up, so I consume less than 10 grams. (My
secret recipe uses silicone.)

One reason I eat fries at breakfast is so I'll get a shot of bile in my
stomach because it takes bile to start to turn the beta carotene in my
vitamin pill, into Vitamin A.


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On 8/8/2015 7:16 AM, J Burns wrote:
On 8/7/15 11:33 PM, Muggles wrote:

Right after the gall bladder surgery I had extreme digestion problems.
Couldn't eat anything with fat in it for a long time because I couldn't
digest the fat. Eventually, my body adjusted to where I could eat more
normally, but it took about 10 years to get to this point, although,
sometimes high fat foods still don't agree with me. The fat in fried
foods just me feel bad, too.


I imagine the trick is not to eat too much fat at one time.

I weighed my Canola bottle when I made fries this morning. I used 10
grams of oil, about 85 calories. Some of the oil ends up on the stove
top, where I have to wipe it up, so I consume less than 10 grams. (My
secret recipe uses silicone.)

One reason I eat fries at breakfast is so I'll get a shot of bile in my
stomach because it takes bile to start to turn the beta carotene in my
vitamin pill, into Vitamin A.



I usually drink a chocolate Boost for breakfast. If I eat something
fried first thing in the morning it has a bad effect on everything and I
can't digest the food at all because of the fat. Everything I eat goes
through in about 20 minutes after I eat, then I feel poorly for a couple
of hours and don't feel like eating anything at all. OTOH, if I don't
eat anything with fat in it first thing in the morning, then 95% of the
time I can handle some fat in the food around lunch time.

I used to put powdered creamer into my morning coffee, but that had a
bad effect, too, so I went to using canned milk (a little sweetness and
a little fat) and my body didn't reject that.

I just can't tolerate much fried foods any more, or high fat foods.

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You probably have every thing you need in your kitchen and/or laundry room. Take a gallon of vinegar mix in a cup of salt and a half cup of dish detergent. Mix it up and spray it on a nice day with no rain in the forecast. You will notice it to start dying in a couple of hours. In a day or two it will all be dead. That is what I do and it works great.

Jim

Is there some chemical made to stop this?



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On 8/8/2015 12:10 PM, Muggles wrote:

I usually drink a chocolate Boost for breakfast. If I eat something
fried first thing in the morning it has a bad effect on everything and I
can't digest the food at all because of the fat.

I just can't tolerate much fried foods any more, or high fat foods.


I saw a case of boost (or was it Slimfast) in a custial
closet at church, one time. Asked the custodian if he
was on a diet. No, he keeps em in case he gets hungry
between meals. No cooking or refrigeration needed. Open
it up, drink it in, and he's good till the next meal.

I thought that was clever.

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On 8/8/2015 5:42 PM, Stormin Mormon wrote:
On 8/8/2015 12:10 PM, Muggles wrote:

I usually drink a chocolate Boost for breakfast. If I eat something
fried first thing in the morning it has a bad effect on everything and I
can't digest the food at all because of the fat.

I just can't tolerate much fried foods any more, or high fat foods.


I saw a case of boost (or was it Slimfast) in a custial
closet at church, one time. Asked the custodian if he
was on a diet. No, he keeps em in case he gets hungry
between meals. No cooking or refrigeration needed. Open
it up, drink it in, and he's good till the next meal.

I thought that was clever.


I like them cold, but that's just me.

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On Saturday, August 8, 2015 at 7:16:48 AM UTC-5, J Burns wrote:
On 8/7/15 11:33 PM, Muggles wrote:

Right after the gall bladder surgery I had extreme digestion problems.
Couldn't eat anything with fat in it for a long time because I couldn't
digest the fat. Eventually, my body adjusted to where I could eat more
normally, but it took about 10 years to get to this point, although,
sometimes high fat foods still don't agree with me. The fat in fried
foods just me feel bad, too.


I imagine the trick is not to eat too much fat at one time.

I weighed my Canola bottle when I made fries this morning. I used 10
grams of oil, about 85 calories. Some of the oil ends up on the stove
top, where I have to wipe it up, so I consume less than 10 grams. (My
secret recipe uses silicone.)

One reason I eat fries at breakfast is so I'll get a shot of bile in my
stomach because it takes bile to start to turn the beta carotene in my
vitamin pill, into Vitamin A.


I've heard that the silicone makes the poop slide out more easily. (ʘ€¿Ê˜)

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" writes:

You probably have every thing you need in your kitchen and/or laundry
room. Take a gallon of vinegar mix in a cup of salt and a half cup of
dish detergent. Mix it up and spray it on a nice day with no rain in
the forecast. You will notice it to start dying in a couple of hours.
In a day or two it will all be dead. That is what I do and it works
great.


I don't think salt is a good idea:

http://homeguides.sfgate.com/rock-sa...nts-56853.html

Soil Changes

A major problem with using rock salt even in small concentrations is
that is tends to stay in the soil for years until water leaches it
out. The salt raises soil salinity, which dehydrates the roots of plants
and keeps them from absorbing necessary nutrients. If you add too much
rock salt and it begins to affect plants you want to keep, as well as
ones you want to kill, start watering the plants deeply every day to try
to flush the salt out of the soil. You might not be able to save those
plants, because it could take months of daily watering to return the
soil to a viable salinity, but you can restore the soil so that new
plants can grow.

Where to Use It

Salt doesn't always stay where it's put -- it can be washed off into
your flower bed or lawn, killing large swaths of plants you want to
keep. Some salt-tolerant plants such as the bigleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea
macrophylla) can survive a bit of runoff, but not a full concentration
of rock salt applied nearby. Apply the salt on a day with no chance of
rain to let it soak in where you want it without the possibility of
runoff. The best places to use rock salt are those where you don't ever
want plants to grow, such as cracks in your driveway or along fence
lines.

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On 8/8/15 8:41 PM, Uncle Monster wrote:
On Saturday, August 8, 2015 at 7:16:48 AM UTC-5, J Burns wrote:



I imagine the trick is not to eat too much fat at one time.

I weighed my Canola bottle when I made fries this morning. I used 10
grams of oil, about 85 calories. Some of the oil ends up on the stove
top, where I have to wipe it up, so I consume less than 10 grams. (My
secret recipe uses silicone.)

One reason I eat fries at breakfast is so I'll get a shot of bile in my
stomach because it takes bile to start to turn the beta carotene in my
vitamin pill, into Vitamin A.


I've heard that the silicone makes the poop slide out more easily. (ʘ€¿Ê˜)

[8~{} Uncle Sillycone Monster

I'm glad you asked! It's a silicone splatter guard. It lets out the
moisture but holds in the heat. The under surface gets hot, so the oil
drips freely back into the pan.

If you wonder why I'm writing this in English, it's so the French won't
find out my secret and begin producing imitation freedom fries.
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On Sunday, August 9, 2015 at 5:46:00 AM UTC-5, J Burns wrote:
On 8/8/15 8:41 PM, Uncle Monster wrote:
On Saturday, August 8, 2015 at 7:16:48 AM UTC-5, J Burns wrote:



I imagine the trick is not to eat too much fat at one time.

I weighed my Canola bottle when I made fries this morning. I used 10
grams of oil, about 85 calories. Some of the oil ends up on the stove
top, where I have to wipe it up, so I consume less than 10 grams. (My
secret recipe uses silicone.)

One reason I eat fries at breakfast is so I'll get a shot of bile in my
stomach because it takes bile to start to turn the beta carotene in my
vitamin pill, into Vitamin A.


I've heard that the silicone makes the poop slide out more easily. (ʘ€¿Ê˜)

[8~{} Uncle Sillycone Monster

I'm glad you asked! It's a silicone splatter guard. It lets out the
moisture but holds in the heat. The under surface gets hot, so the oil
drips freely back into the pan.

If you wonder why I'm writing this in English, it's so the French won't
find out my secret and begin producing imitation freedom fries.


Um, sorry, I assumed you were eating silicone. ‰–€¿‰–

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Dan Espen wrote:
" writes:

You probably have every thing you need in your kitchen and/or laundry
room. Take a gallon of vinegar mix in a cup of salt and a half cup of
dish detergent. Mix it up and spray it on a nice day with no rain in
the forecast. You will notice it to start dying in a couple of hours.
In a day or two it will all be dead. That is what I do and it works
great.


I don't think salt is a good idea:

http://homeguides.sfgate.com/rock-sa...nts-56853.html

Soil Changes

A major problem with using rock salt even in small concentrations is
that is tends to stay in the soil for years until water leaches it
out. The salt raises soil salinity, which dehydrates the roots of plants
and keeps them from absorbing necessary nutrients. If you add too much
rock salt and it begins to affect plants you want to keep, as well as
ones you want to kill, start watering the plants deeply every day to try
to flush the salt out of the soil. You might not be able to save those
plants, because it could take months of daily watering to return the
soil to a viable salinity, but you can restore the soil so that new
plants can grow.

Where to Use It

Salt doesn't always stay where it's put -- it can be washed off into
your flower bed or lawn, killing large swaths of plants you want to
keep. Some salt-tolerant plants such as the bigleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea
macrophylla) can survive a bit of runoff, but not a full concentration
of rock salt applied nearby. Apply the salt on a day with no chance of
rain to let it soak in where you want it without the possibility of
runoff. The best places to use rock salt are those where you don't ever
want plants to grow, such as cracks in your driveway or along fence
lines.

I used some kinda formulated sand to fill the gaps between paving
stones. This looks like fine sand in white color. What it does it it
settles very hard making it hard for the seeds to grow. I got it by the
bags from local HD.

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replying to Moe DeLoughan, TP wrote:
I have a uniblockPaver patio which is installed slightly below grade I get
moss In the joint sand that was recommended most joints are a quarter of an
inch or less in the spring when I power wash the moss out of these joints They
just deteriorate at least large gaps in the pavers can you recommend a
solution to thisThank you very much

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