What Mercutio Probably Meant...

Justin: I've had a revelation... As I labored for several hours in the yard this morning I made the discovery that in the classic tale of "Romeo and Juliet", with his dying breath our dear Mercutio did not curse the House of Montigue and the House of Capulet with merely bad fortune - the plague he was wishing upon them had to include these:

Sweet Gum seeds. GAH!

What an awful thing these are! You can't mow them, you can barely rake them - they barely even BURN. When I mowed on Tuesday I had to leave the area around that one tree out as I couldn't have returned Mark's mower to him all beat up. The sound was awful and even trying to bag the things, success was minimal. So this morning I broke out the rake and shovel and spent a couple hours trying to put a dent in the carpet of thorny things...

This can was empty when I started. Maybe now I can mow without making a dull spoon out of the blade. Maybe...