Hi SRS, I am hot and covered with sweat and bits of grass. Been weedwhacking for hours, til both batteries wore out.

A whole grove of pigweed has gotten as much as 5 feet tall in one area, and is just rampant small plants everywhere else. The caltrop/goathead is on the back burner til I can get the small pigweeds either pulled up or at least whack the flower spires off before they can set a jillion seeds for next year. I did buy a gallon of industrial strength vinegar and will be experimenting with that (I will not use roundup or chemicals since I am directly above my well).

Dodder showed its ugly face last week, so I did a blitz to get that picked up before it got near the oleander etc.

Trying to save what 'good' plants I can, there is some wild portulaca that I like, some copper globe mallow, the silver nightshade, the yellow clumps of desert who-knows-what, chinese lantern.

My experiments with transplanting little chunks of cholla and prickly pear are bearing fruit, fun to see new little ears appearing on the baby plants as well as the established ones.   Hard to remember not to step on the babies as I constantly have to pull the bad weeds out the two little 'garden' beds.