Mick claims weeds are just flowers that popped up in the wrong place.  If he's right, I spent two hours and used three gallons of Round-up killing flowers yesterday.  Today I journeyed to the local Wally World to replenish my weapons supply.  An acre of neglected ground can generate an enormous volume of... flowers.  And most of them bristle with thorns and burrs when they mature.  It makes me long for the innocuous weeds of Phoenix.

Note:  Round-up resistant "flowers" have developed.  Lately I find it necessary to spray a couple of times, just to ensure a successful mass extermination.