I love that. If I can choose my grass type I’d rather be a native to the area than Kentucky Blue, so I can put down deep roots and help hold the soil as it builds
Oh yeah, for sure! The wetland and rocky grasses all have their own cool things going for them.
If it’s domesticated grass… I barley is a grass. Barley’s done good for a lot of folks.
Other grains have too!
But I grew up listening to my dad practicing John Barleycorn Must Die each year in preparation for harvest so Barley is just… friend?
Friend to all?
The idea of being one of those wetland grasses that grow up around the Camas in Oregon seems pretty ideal. Just doing my own little weed thing and hanging out with the flowers and shit.
We were fucking around and making parody song lyrics and he says, in a heavy southern accent, “if you had one shot. One opportunity. To put a bunch of shotgun shells in a blender and aim ‘em at a coon, would you do it?”
Cue third coworker and I staring at him tryna figure out if he meant raccoon.
I literally learned this last year, had no clue.
the only reason I learned it was because I was about to make a joke involving any small mischievous mammal and I had my finger over the post button before I decided to google it, I worry all the time that I’ll hurt someone’s feelings for real someday
