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It’s always been a question when I mow the lawns: are dandelions weeds or wish generators? Sometimes I think I should stop mowing the lawn and just have a field of dandelions.
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That’s not a bad idea, Andrew! I’ll have to suggest it to my husband.
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So what did you decide upon?
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😊
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I like dandelions and I mow round them!
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Which, in many yards in my neighborhood, would simply mean not mowing.
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I so love that you used the word “festooned “. Yet another word that’s used nearly enough!
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I agree, Laura, which is why I festoon sentences with the word festoon as often as possible. May your weekend be festooned with festoonful festooning!
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🤣🥰
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Dandelions are important food sources for bees…
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Ha ha. Very true. 🙂
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Funny, loved it! Thanks for sharing.
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Yeah I guess one person’s weeds are another’s wishes. And I never thought to wish for more…
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Got me laughing😂😂😂😂😂
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I’m not really flower person. Here in Nigeria, I don’t think a lot of us are though🤔…dandellions, you’ve made me read up about them😁
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🙂
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That’s a great way to look at it! And another: decide they are actually flowers, and maybe we won’t mind them so much?
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Oh, I like the flowers, Ann. But then the petals fall off and you’re left with a yard full of ugly bare stalks. And meanwhile, the plants are spreading out, choking off and replacing the grass with more of themselves.
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Yeah, that’s why I’ve never been able to think of them as flowers either!
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Dandelions are 😍
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Any klutz can grow dandelions. Even me! (Ubiquity and uniformity gave a beautiful flower a bad rep.) I do pull weeds; I do not pull dandelions. On the contrary, I have posted prose and poetry in their praise. They may be more appreciative of the fact that I postpone the first mowing in spring to give the dandelions and wild violets in my lawn a chance to set seed.
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