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I'm sunbruned right now. On the tops of my thighs (primarily my left leg), on the tops of my arms (especially forearms), and on one large belt-sized stripe across my back, where my shirt rode up as I was pulling weeds outside. My mom and I worked all day on the yards, pulling and mowing and trimming. We spent the final hour digging Four'o'clock roots out of the corner of the front of the house, right next to a rose bush. The rose bush made it difficult enough, but the fact that this Four'c'clock flower root was about 5 years old didn't help, and the main protion of it was between 3 sprinkler pipes, locked in away from shovel access. It took a lot of hand work, but after an hour we finally got it out-- by cutting chunsk of it apart till we could get at it all. Overall, the root was as large as a cantelope, possibly a honeydoo melon. It was a nasty sucker, and had all sorts of roots the size of fat carrots embedded around it.

I'm sunburned now. But our yard looks great.