In December 2004, a guy named Gary Brolsma uploaded a video called "Numa Numa Dance" to the site Newgrounds.
People started sharing it everywhere, and it ended up becoming one of the very first videos to go massively viral on the internet.
Before the 1950s, clover was a STANDARD component of American lawns.
Seed mixes included it on purpose.
Then broadleaf herbicides were invented.
They killed clover along with "weeds." So the chemical companies rebranded clover as a weed — to sell more herbicide.
That's it. That's the whole story.
Clover is not a weed. It's the future of your lawn.
White Dutch clover (Trifolium repens):
Self-fertilizing — fixes nitrogen from the air into the soil. No fertilizer needed. EVER.
…and it feeds the grass around it for free.
Drought-resistant — stays green when grass goes brown.
Bee paradise — constant blooms from May to frost.
Chokes out weeds — dense growth shades out weed seeds.
No mowing needed (stays 4-6 inches) — or mow monthly.
Soft underfoot — kids love it.
Costs $5-10 to overseed 1,000 sq ft.
How to add clover to your existing lawn:
Overseed in spring or fall.
Scatter seed (2 oz per 1,000 sq ft).
Water lightly for 2 weeks. Done.
Stop using broadleaf herbicides (they kill clover).
Stop fertilizing (clover makes its own).
Mow at 3-4 inches.
The lawn industry told you clover was a weed so they could sell you chemicals.
Take your lawn back.
The Vanishing American (1925) was one of the first Hollywood movies to be filmed in Monument Valley, more than a decade before John Ford first filmed there
Mark Knopfler drifts into an improvised fugue, from Telegraph Road to Sultans of Swing. When drummer Chad Cromwell follows, it’s spectacular.
Mark Knopfler, 2001.
Celebrating 47 years of Silent Letter 🎶
America's 8th studio album was released June 15, 1979 and featured fan favorites such as "Only Game in Town", "All My Life", "All Around", and more. Watch the full album facts video and listen to the album today!
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"There is not any part of me that is alone and absolute except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the Sun on the surfaces of the water."
~ D.H. Lawrence
🎨 Charles Louis Signoret
“I was shy, solitary, awkward in company. Alone by the river, alone through the fields, alone on the top of the Forest. Sitting alone on the grass in the sunshine. Walking alone through the woods at night. Alone with myself. Alone - yet never lonely.” ~C.R.Milne