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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 8:02 am 
RN Even if they were just in their room or the kitchen, they are still right there. It's not a huge house.
RN Mr. Muddy Paws (Jasper, the big doodle) showed up AGAIN on a rainy day. Yes, that is a layer of mud over every inch of my kitchen. All the dogs are confined to the kitchen today, if they're not outside.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 8:57 am
RN, Naja, a good layer of straw over the muddy areas has helped my mud issue considerably. Is that something you could consider? (straw, not hay)
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 9:08 am
RN The areas are just too big that the dogs have ruined. Here's one area. Close to cam has some astroturf at the bottom of the deck stairs.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 9:21 am
RN: Naja, check out this thread. I want to do this. It's about having a clover lawn instead of grass.
Link
Your backyard looks like it would only need 2 bales of straw.
What about getting one of those indoor/outdoor rugs to cover the floor where they come in, so the floor doesn't get muddy. Then when they leave, take the rug outside and hose it down? (Or just shake it out and let it stay dirty for the next time they come?
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 9:22 am
Oh, mine are that big also. Straw is pretty cheap by the bale, altho does require some heavy lifting. Just a thought.
ETA: Grooch has some good ideas too!
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 9:23 am
Grooch, I planted clover seed in my small front yard because it was difficult to mow with my great big tractor. Love it.
The only bad thing about it, is that it does attract a lot of bees, so I wouldn't use it in my back yard.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 9:27 am
Bees don't bother me. The house I grew up in was basically half grass/ half clover by default. I always thought that was a normal lawn.
I can't imagine doing all that work to have just real grass for a lawn. I have enough to do.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 9:30 am
Oh, and thar reminds me. I bought some red clove seed this winter. I love it. I'm going to plant some in my flower beds. Bubble bees are the only bees that can pollinate it. Or so I've been told.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 10:01 am
Bees and dogs, though..
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 10:07 am
When we had a small pack of labs, we lived in a small canyon in Cleveland National Forest and there was a ginormous pine tree in the front yard. No grass would grow. We put in pea gravel. Not pretty, but it worked. Plus our dogs weren't out for extended periods when it rained. Being Labradors with proper lab double coats, they tended to shed water and we didn't have a lot of mud.
Straw sounds like a good idea.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 10:07 am
Grooch, for me, I am deathly allergic, so they do bother me.
And having dogs rolling around and running around on bees is probably not the best idea. My silly dogs also like to try to eat them, which is also very very bad. LOL.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 10:26 am
RN That's just small part of my yard in that photo. At the bottom of the deck stairs. I think I can handle the mud better than I could straw all over my yard. Especially how the dogs wrestle and kick up everything. There's a wide muddy trail around the whole pool as well. Not to mention under the deck.
I do love those clover lawns, but not for me.
I'm just going to go along as I have been. Towels all over the floor when it's this bad. And yes, I have a big 4x6 washable rug and 3 smaller ones I normally have on the floor. But when it's this bad, I thrown down the towels. They're easier to wash, and I can wash them all at once.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 10:39 am
RN, Naja, my experience is that the straw ends up pushed into the mud, not kicked up. And then... when spring comes, you throw grass seed all through it, and the straw protects the new grass and lets it grow.
I've successfully re-seeded my mud areas this way.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 10:47 am
RN I guess I could try it on an area 
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 11:34 am
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Friday, April 26, 2024 - 5:18 am
RN I can't believe this. The storm last night killed my dvr and 55 inch TV. And they were both plugged into a surge protector.
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Friday, April 26, 2024 - 9:13 am
RN I can say from my own experience surge protectors work but not perfectly. Of course when I lost a tv and dvr a few years ago during a big thunder and lightning storm the surge actually came through the cable not the power supply.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Friday, April 26, 2024 - 10:06 am
RN, Naja! Oh no! I'm so sorry!
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Friday, April 26, 2024 - 10:07 am
RN, I had a visitor this morning! This is part of a mating pair of Great Horned Owls that are nesting in my neighbor's barn.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Friday, April 26, 2024 - 10:25 am
RN Gorgeous!
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-02-2001
| Friday, April 26, 2024 - 10:49 am
Peopleareoftersurprsedathow BIG they re!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, April 26, 2024 - 6:07 pm
What a wonderful visitor!!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, April 26, 2024 - 6:07 pm
Naja, so sorry..
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-02-2001
| Monday, April 29, 2024 - 6:52 am
Long time for this thread to be "quiet!
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Monday, April 29, 2024 - 11:26 am
RN I'm always checking in. Max and FedX just went home after 12 days, I have a meet and greet at 5, and then tonight while everything is still damp, I am going to have fire in the backyard fire pit. Unless I'm too tired and I'll do it tomorrow instead. I need to start cutting branches off my dead plum tree and burning them.
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