I beat the russians today...

[j_cheney]

Yes, today I took out the russian sage. 9-years-old russian sage with happy root systems that didn't want to leave. I had a reason for this, but now I'm too tired and sore to remember what that reason was...

I actually found some of the info I needed about the race I'm co-opting, including a convenient way to get rid of the horse that really did win. The poor bloke suffered a split pastern a few weeks after winning the race, effectively removing him from the rest of his two-year-old season. So, I move it up a few weeks, blame the bad guy, and therefore have an open field. Worked out quite nicely.

Don't care about horse races that happened over a century ago? Too bad, there's someone out there who would scream bloody murder....

Oddly, I can't find the 1905 race results in the NYT. I can find 1904 and 1906.

This is rather like that missing day of Baxter Black on NPR....the one radio broadcast of his that I wanted to download. (The one that talks about the responsibility ranchers feel toward their livestock, and how the wretched cold snap of 2001? was so terrible.) For some reason, a tape of that day wasn't put on file.....

Received in the mail:
Inspector Lynley, Season 6 Supposedly, this is the end of the series, but I hope not.
A Coldwater Creek catalog with beautiful things in it.

Comments

[musingaloud.livejournal.com]

Oh, I bet you mean you're now tired and sore AND stinky!!! I have a couple of areas that I mean to try to eradicate the Russian sage too. It really is pretty when it blooms, but mine gets way too leggy and spends most of its blooming life lying on the ground. And then there's it's creeping, rooting habits. So yeah, mine has to go too. Just haven't been looking forward to feeling the way you're feeling right now! ;-)

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Cutting out the roots was the tough part. (3 separate bushes) I couldn't find the axe, so I was using bypass pruners to do some of the hard work...

I hate taking it out from the standpoint that it was great for the bees, but it really grew huge and blocked off the whole back corner of the yard.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Me too! It was one of the first plants I decided to get rid of when we moved to our current house.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

I think that given the right place, it's perfect....I'm just tired of fighting it!

[aliettedb.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Happy roots are the worst.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

And my husband came home and said "Oh, the ax is right over there."

I had looked right past the thing several times, which just irritates me terribly!

Oh, uh...

[jtglover.livejournal.com]

I've been a little distracted lately, but do you reeeeeally want those race results? If you can get me the details of the race, I might be able to help. Have you been searching online? Microfilm? If the former, I'd be willing to look around a bit on microfilm.

Re: Oh, uh...

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Actually, NYT has all their early issues scanned in and available on-line already. I'm actually not certain what the date I'm looking for is. I'll have to extrapolate it from the info I do have. Then I should be able to find the race. Right now it's not coming up because the words I'm searching with must not appear in the first couple of sentences...

I should be able to figure it out. Thanks for offering, though. ;o)

Actually, what I need to know is that date and the stakes amount. I can actually figure out the date, and it's unlikely that the paper will actually have the stakes condition. I'm hoping that it's similar to the Saratoga Special run a week or so later.

Re: Oh, uh...

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

On further research, I switched my choice to a different race (for timing reasons)...so I already have the article for that one. ;o)