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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS WEDNESDAY MAY 10, 2000 Community r; le 9,.e.1' -- ? 4.)4 ri. Domestic Blitz r" By Dixie Brunner College grad My oldest sons college gradu- ation was last week. I mention this only because I observed a very weird thing about his parents. Have you ever caught yourself exhibiting behavior you didnt entirely understand? Let me explain. Someone was congratulating me saying how well our son had done and adding, Why, you still actual age. Fast forward to now. My oldest son is 22 years old and that would mean that I am. ..I mustve given birth when I was alot younger than 19! Women are vain about their age. But lets face it, the world celebrates youth. The womens magazines feature younger (and skinnier) women. They look so young, how old were you dont highlight the fact that when he was born? we are actually a lot more fun All of the sudden, I was ten and alot less uptight in our when I gave birth to him. 30s and 40s. The only articles targeted at us are Enjoying When youre young, you want your Golden Years or Estate to be older. When youre older, you want to be younger. Most of my younger years were Planning. It doesnt help that our kids think were older than mud, and When youre young, you want to be older. When youre older, you want to be younger. . spent tryingto get people to take me seriously. When asked my age, I always rounded up! I studied issues I didnt care about just to sound like I was moderately intelligent. I did everything I could to appear older, wiser and more together than my chronological age dictated. The vogue thing for women to do back then was complete college before they got married and had children. The fact that I gave birth to our oldest son when I was 19 was not something to brag about. So when asked how old I was, I always padded the keep reminding us about our advanced age. Mom, did they have phones when you were little? No honey, we used smoke signals to communicate. I guess age is a relative thing. When I was in my twenties, I thought people in their 40s had a foot in the grave. Now that Im (ahem) nearly there, Im thinking that old is anyone past 100! Oh well, I guess Im just going to have to work on aging gracefully. But until then...I wish they would stop sending me the free copies of Modern Maturity. Nows the time to spray Now is the time most people enjoy viewing the colorful desert flowers as spring emerges from winter. The beauty is only skin deep when it comes to certain weed types. The Scotch Thistle most prevalent of the two in our area. The plant is easily identifiable by its big purple flowers and densely haired leaves, which have been described as being people and pets. These weeds are a real threat and we need to do everything possible to educate the public to take care of the problem on all lands, as soon as someone says that it is real wooly. The second most noxious weed not their problem we will loose is the Hoary Cress also known the battle. Both weeds can be controlled as White Top. White Top can grow as high as two feet in by digging up the roots. Round height and blooms fairly early Up and 2,4D will also work well. in the season with an abun- The secret is to get them as early as possible. Kane County has dance of four petal flowers. It can be easily confused with two noxious weed personnel and Babys Breath. Never let them is usually busy spraying large or any other weed go to seed, as acreage and BLM ground. Kane County will be charging these seeds may lay viable for before $15.00 many years per hour with a one hour they may bloom. is said It minimum that actually along with .40 cents noxious weeds cost the country per gallon of mixed chemical. If up to $17 billion a year to con- you have a noxious weed probtrol, which is passed on to the lem feel free to contact Kane consumer in higher prices for County at 644-531- 2 and we will food. Even people who live in schedule a time to spray your and Hoary Cress are perhaps the most threatening to the agriculture and wildlands within Southern Utah and their spread is fast and voracious. This is the time all individuals need to be concerned and try to eradicate them from their private lands. If not, they spread rapidly to public and other private lands. Noxious weeds have the tendency to crowd out desirable flowers along with croplands. Spring is the best time to attack these types of weeds. Aph plications of 2,4D and weed are good killers, commonly available to consum- the cities are vulnerable be- land. cause the seeds may be transFrom your Kane County ers from our local stores. Scotch thistle is probably the ported by vehicles, animals, ious Weed Department. 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