Top 200 Movies, Worldwide Box Office (Adjusted for Inflation)

1. () Gone with the Wind (1939)
2. (x) Titanic (1997)
3. (x) Star Wars (1977)
4. (x) Bambi (1942)
5. (x) E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
6. (x) Jurassic Park (1993)
7. (x) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
8. (x) Jaws (1975)
9. (x) Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
10. (x) Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)
11. (x) Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)
12. (x) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)
13. (x) The Lion King (1994)
14. (x) Independence Day (1996)
15. (x) Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)
16. (x) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
17. (x) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
18. (x) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
19. (x) Forrest Gump (1994)
20. (x) The Exorcist (1973)

Total so far (20): 19

21. (x) Finding Nemo (2003)
22. (x) The Dark Knight (2008)
23. (x) Shrek 2 (2004)
24. (x) Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007)
25. (x) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
26. (x) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
27. (x) Spider-Man (2002)
28. (x) Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)
29. (x) Grease (1978)
30. () Spider-Man 3 (2007)
31. (x) Home Alone (1990)
32. (x) One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
33. (x) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
34. () Spider-Man 2 (2004)
35. (x) Ghost (1990)
36. (x) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
37. (x) The Sixth Sense (1999)
38. (x) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
39. (x) The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
40. (x) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Total so far (40): 37

41. (x) The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
42. (x) Shrek the Third (2007)
43. (x) Men in Black (1997)
44. (x) The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
45. (x) Aladdin (1992)
46. () The Da Vinci Code (2006)
47. (x) Pretty Woman (1990)
48. (x) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
49. (x) Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002)
50. (x) Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
51. () Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
52. (x) Rain Man (1988)
53. (x) Armageddon (1998/I)
54. (x) Batman (1989)
55. (x) Dances with Wolves (1990)
56. (x) Transformers (2007)
57. () The Godfather (1972)
58. (x) Twister (1996)
59. (x) Superman (1978)
60. (x) The Incredibles (2004)

Total so far (60): 54

61. (x) Back to the Future (1985)
62. (x) The Jungle Book (1967)
63. () Mission: Impossible II (2000)
64. () The Passion of the Christ (2004)
65. (x) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
66. (x) Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)
67. (x) Top Gun (1986)
68. (x) The Bodyguard (1992)
69. (x) Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
70. (x) Monsters, Inc. (2001)
71. () War of the Worlds (2005)
72. (x) Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
73. (x) Mission: Impossible (1996)
74. (x) Saving Private Ryan (1998)
75. (x) Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
76. (x) Ratatouille (2007)
77. (x) Toy Story 2 (1999)
78. (x) Kung Fu Panda (2008)
79. (x) Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
80. (x) Crocodile Dundee (1986)

Total so far (80): 71

81. (x) Beauty and the Beast (1991)
82. () Hancock (2008)
83. () Casino Royale (2006)
84. () Night at the Museum (2006)
85. () I Am Legend (2007)
86. () King Kong (2005)
87. (x) Fatal Attraction (1987)
88. (x) The Matrix (1999)
89. (x) The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
90. () Rocky IV (1985)
91. (x) Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
92. () Saturday Night Fever (1977)
93. (x) Ghost Busters (1984)
94. () Mamma Mia! (2008)
95. (x) Back to the Future Part II (1989)
96. (x) Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)
97. () Rocky (1976)
98. () Gladiator (2000)
99. (x) The Fugitive (1993)
100. () Iron Man (2008)

Total so far (100): 80

101. () Quantum of Solace (2008)
102. () Tarzan (1999)
103. (x) Basic Instinct (1992)
104. (x) Shrek (2001)
105. (x) Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
106. () Pearl Harbor (2001)
107. (x) True Lies (1994)
108. (x) Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
109. (x) The Flintstones (1994)
110. () Troy (2004)
111. (x) The Simpsons Movie (2007)
112. (x) The Mummy (1999)
113. (x) Cast Away (2000)
114. (x) Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
115. () Bruce Almighty (2003)
116. (x) WALL•E (2008)
117. (x) Toy Story (1995)
118. (x) Coming to America (1988)
119. (x) Look Who’s Talking (1989)
120. (x) GoldenEye (1995)

Total so far (120): 95

121. (x) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
122. () The Mummy Returns (2001)
123. (x) Se7en (1995)
124. (x) Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)
125. () Pocahontas (1995)
126. (x) Men in Black II (2002)
127. (x) Die Another Day (2002)
128. (x) Jaws 2 (1978)
129. (x) Godzilla (1998)
130. () The Last Samurai (2003)
131. (x) Schindler’s List (1993)
132. (x) Hook (1991)
133. (x) Batman Forever (1995)
134. () The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
135. (x) Apollo 13 (1995)
136. (x) Signs (2002)
137. (x) Meet the Fockers (2004)
138. (x) The Mask (1994)
139. () Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
140. () 300 (2006)

Total so far (140): 109

141. (x) There’s Something About Mary (1998)
142. (x) X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
143. (x) Cars (2006)
144. (x) A Bug’s Life (1998)
145. (x) Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
146. (x) Moonraker (1979)
147. (x) Notting Hill (1999)
148. () Out of Africa (1985)
149. (x) The Rock (1996)
150. (x) X2 (2003)
151. (x) What Women Want (2000)
152. (x) Deep Impact (1998)
153. () Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
154. () National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
155. () The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
156. (x) The World Is Not Enough (1999)
157. () The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
158. (x) Batman Returns (1992)
159. (x) Ice Age (2002)
160. (x) The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Total so far (160): 124

161. () Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
162. (x) Jurassic Park III (2001)
163. (x) Total Recall (1990)
164. (x) Madagascar (2005)
165. (x) Planet of the Apes (2001)
166. (x) Dinosaur (2000)
167. (x) Ransom (1996)
168. (x) American Beauty (1999)
169. (x) Air Force One (1997)
170. (x) 101 Dalmatians (1996)
171. (x) As Good as It Gets (1997)
172. (x) ‘Crocodile’ Dundee II (1988)
173. () How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
174. () Hannibal (2001)
175. (x) Speed (1994/I)
176. (x) Minority Report (2002)
177. () My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
178. (x) Liar Liar (1997)
179. () Mission: Impossible III (2006)
180. () The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)

Total so far (180): 138

181. (x) Indecent Proposal (1993)
182. () Back to the Future Part III (1990)
183. () Casper (1995)
184. () The Perfect Storm (2000)
185. (x) Dead Poets Society (1989)
186. () Superman Returns (2006)
187. (x) The Firm (1993)
188. (x) Mulan (1998)
189. () Rush Hour 2 (2001)
190. (x) Die Hard 2 (1990)
191. (x) Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
192. (x) Catch Me If You Can (2002)
193. (x) Happy Feet (2006)
194. () Runaway Bride (1999)
195. () Hitch (2005/I)
196. () Sex and the City (2008)
197. () Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
198. () Cliffhanger (1993)
199. (x) My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997)
200. () Click (2006/I)

Total so far (200): 147

After gymnastics Adam, Amy, and I headed over to the Village Peddler to look at kids’ bikes. I had gotten it in my head that it was important to get Adam a 2 wheel bike (with training wheels) to enjoy the warm weather. Adam picked out a blue Trek bike (20” frame). He was so excited he tried to ride around in the store. As soon as we got home we got ready to go on a bike ride. I pulled my bike down and put some air in the tires.

After an almost immediate fall into water, ice and snow at the base of the driveway we set out and rode 1.2 miles. Not bad for a first ride on 2 wheels all by yourself.

The next day Adam was bugging me for another bike ride. Although it was colder, I agreed and dressed him lightly but warmly and we set out again.
This time we rode 2 miles (to Willy Bikes on West Wash) and stopped to do some shopping. We picked up a new front reflector, a water bottle, and a blinky-reflector to wear on your pants or arm. Here we stopped as we decided that I’d leave my 7 year old bike there for a thorough checkup before spring and they get really busy. Also, tune-ups are currently 20% off at Willy Bikes through 2/22/09. They said your bike should be ready Tuesday.

Monday they called at 3pm to say it was done. I was ecstatic! Despite the predictions of rain I opted to walk down to Willy Bikes, pick up the bike and ride the 2 miles home. When I left work, it was very lightly raining.
When I left Willy Bikes it was pouring. By the time I got home, I was soaked everywhere except my feet. (Hooray for water-proof winter boots).
The rain was cold, wet, and pelting me in the face and thighs. It was NOT a pleasant ride. At least it was only 2 miles. Blech.

And now… the cold weather is coming again with promises of snow and freezing temps. I guess we’ll store the bikes until real spring hits. I can hardly wait!

The item in question in Mr Barry’s naughty list was the garden zombie.
In a strange way I kind of want. Except that it would only be funny for the few weeks leading up to Halloween and the rest of the year it would be something else to clutter my newly cleaned and organized tool shed.

And now as seasonally festive as I’m feeling with the snow and the delightful lights on our house, I’m already looking forward to next spring and having gardening angst. The stupid garden zombie has awakened my absurd and misplaced gardening angst.
We need to finish winterizing the garage, get ready for Christmas, fix the upstairs bathroom and deal with likely many other unforeseen indoor tasks and expenses.
And yet I keep coming back to the mess that is my back yard. I think that philosophical giant Yoda summed it up best when he said “All h(er) life has (s)he looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never h(er) mind on where (s)he was.”

Yeah, that’s why I’m up til nearly midnight. I ought to be focusing on dragging my well-rested derierre out of bed at 6:30 tomorrow instead of worrying about weeds and garden ornamentation.

whoa, man… meeeeeeew.

They’re already using it to scratch, sniff, and lounge upon.
Extra special bonus: mellow kitties.

The next project in this battle is the upstairs bathroom. Worst case scenario, we end up completely ripping out the bathroom to the studs and put in a new shower, toilet and sink.
The main priority is to find and stop whatever is leaking from the tub all the way to the basement.

Tomorrow we get to find out a rough estimate on how much this endeavor may cost us. I’m seeing a flat screen tv and a new laptop being turned into a new bathroom.
bummer.

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He spent most of his night in there with Clio coming by to smell and hiss at him. Later, we pulled him out and I let him sleep on my lap for an hour before we put him back in there for bedtime.

He’s gone from wildly thrashing around and flopping to actually moving and has gone both up and down stairs. But after he has a fit and burst of moving he flops down and just sort of lays there. We’re not sure if it’s exhaustion or drugs or a combination of both, but he looks sort of sad when he’s lying there all flopped over…

The vet says it may take a few weeks for the other front leg to strengthen enough to the point where he doesn’t lose his balance quite so frequently. I’ll be looking forward to that day and the day all his fur grows back over the scar so he doesn’t look quite as lopsided.

Now you may be wondering how it has come to pass that we’re taking his entire arm off. This is how:

It isn’t surprising to anyone who has met our cats to hear that they often do their very best to run outside at every opportunity. Usually in the mornings we’re very careful because we’re not equipped to have completely outdoor cats.

Yesterday, however, Spike ran outside and literally ran away. I was running late and decided that a day without the creature comforts of a soft sofa and a dish of food might cure him from running outside.

I went to work and completely forgot that the kitties were outside.

I didn’t think about the cats again until Mike called me at a little after 6 asking me to come home ASAP. There was something wrong with Spike. He had blood on his elboy and wasn’t able to put weight on his paw.

We loaded Spike into the cat carrier and off we went to the emergency vet.

$530, heavy narcotics, and 2 x-rays later we find out his left front radius has one complete break and other smaller fractures. This kind of injury can’t simply be put into a cast. The options are as follows:

1) Orthopedic surgery which involves putting a plate in the forearm to hold the bone still. Cost: at least $2000, no definite guarantee of success

2) Amputation. Cost $650 minimum.

3) …

So given many financial considerations and the fact that cats can do just fine on 3 legs, we opted to go with the sure and the considerably less expensive option.

He should be home with us around 5:30 tonight. We have antibiotics and pain meds for him. He’ll likely be drugged to the eyeballs for the next week, but should otherwise return to being a happy, healthy cat.

How did he break it in the first place? We don’t actually know. His collar is missing and the wound on his elbow was pretty superficial and does not resemble a bite or trauma related with being hit or run over.
It looks more like he got it stuck in something and in trying to work his arm free, broke it. We suspect (if) when we find his missing collar, we may be able to piece together what happened.

I’ll admit it… I love crisp air and wrapping up in quilts and feeling warm and cozy. I love fresh apples and apple cider at farmers market.
I love crunchy leaves, Halloween, Corn Mazes, Pumpkin patches, Autumn harvest festivals, Oktoberfest, and Thanksgiving.

My life, my brain is full of soundtracks. Pick almost any song in my MP3 collection and I’ll probably be able to remember the first time the song stuck with me. That song is forever cemented in my subconscious and associated with a season, an event, a person, a place, a mood.

Sure, it’s been said that odors can bring back strong memories, and that is true for me as well, but music is much stronger an association.

Back before iPods we still made CD mixes for driving (and before that, I still did tape mixes). I can pop in our “New York driving mix” and visualize with great clarity great swaths of the New Jersey Turnpike, the breathtaking (if smoggy) sight of the Twin Towers and the Statue of Liberty from the Turnpike.

Listening to “Keep Myself Awake” by Black Lab on the Buffy Soundtrack reminds me of driving 10 mph on the Ohio Turnpike just before Christmas 2004. We were driving through an epic winter storm and I really was trying to keep myself awake and alert. Although the sight of semi trucks in the ditch every mile was enough to keep me on my toes. Soooo glad we had the Subaru. Really. Really. Stupid.

So I’m trying to create an Autumn play list for my iPod. So far I have 2 songs. I have other songs that go on the list and then are removed. Those songs make me nostalgic and melancholy and I’m not sure I want that in a play list I will be listening to at work and around the house.

But as we plan our first roast dinner with friends for Sunday, it occurs to me that we should be a bit melancholy in the fall. Sure there will be more warm days, but more often than not, the days will be cool and eventually cold. We’ll reflect back on the years that were and prepare for the winter ahead. We may love the autumn, but it’s always hard to say goodbye to shimmering swimming pools, backyard cook-outs, cold beer on a hot day, summer vacations, and the delicious feeling of always being warm.

All I have to say is I’m terribly embarrassed by the ones I picked up and started, but never read.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

This is a list of the top 106 books most often marked unread by LibraryThing users. The rules: bold the ones you’ve read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish.

• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
• Anna Karenina
• Crime and Punishment
• Catch-22
• One Hundred Years of Solitude
• Wuthering Heights
• The Silmarillion
• Life of Pi : a novel
• The Name of the Rose
• Don Quixote
• Moby Dick
• Ulysses
• Madame Bovary
• The Odyssey
• Pride and Prejudice
• Jane Eyre
• The Tale of Two Cities
• The Brothers Karamazov
• Guns, Germs, and Steel
• War and Peace
• Vanity Fair
• The Time Traveler’s Wife
• The Iliad
• Emma
• The Blind Assassin
• The Kite Runner
• Mrs. Dalloway
• Great Expectations
• American Gods
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
• Atlas Shrugged
• Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Middlesex
• Quicksilver
• Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
• The Canterbury Tales
• The Historian : a novel
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• Love in the Time of Cholera
• Brave New World
• The Fountainhead
• Foucault’s Pendulum
• Middlemarch
• Frankenstein
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• Dracula
• A Clockwork Orange
• Anansi Boys
• The Once and Future King
• The Grapes of Wrath
• The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
• 1984
• Angels & Demons
• The Inferno
• The Satanic Verses
• Sense and Sensibility
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Mansfield Park
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• To the Lighthouse
• Tess of the D’Urbervilles
• Oliver Twist
• Gulliver’s Travels
• Les Misérables
• The Corrections
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
• Dune
• The Prince
• The Sound and the Fury
• Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
• The God of Small Things
• A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
• Cryptonomicon
• Neverwhere
• A Confederacy of Dunces
• A Short History of Nearly Everything
• Dubliners
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• Beloved
• Slaughterhouse-five
• The Scarlet Letter
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves
• The Mists of Avalon
• Oryx and Crake : a novel
• Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
• Cloud Atlas
• The Confusion
• Lolita
• Persuasion
• Northanger Abbey
• The Catcher in the Rye
• On the Road
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Freakonomics
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
• The Aeneid
• Watership Down
• Gravity’s Rainbow
• The Hobbit
• In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
• White Teeth
• Treasure Island
• David Copperfield

• The Three Musketeers

Whew… A bit depressiong, that, though some of those are on my notional to-read pile.

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Saturday: Planned on sleeping in, taking it easy and doing more work. Maybe improving Wii baseball and tennis games.

Saturday, actual:
Up at 8:00 a.m. Cleaned dining room and part of kitchen, cleaned living room.
Did more work.
Drove in Amy’s van (thank you, Amy!) to Chicago with Adam, his best friend from daycare, friend’s older brother, and their mother to the Allstate Arena in Rosemont to see The Wiggles!

Car ride down: minimal drama, going pretty well. Thinking that this will be pretty easy.
Concert: some drama, but not too much. Concert kinda sucks. Wiggles officially too old to do good concerts anymore.
Stop at Woodfield Mall to go to the Disney Store and the Lego Store: Incredible, four year old screaming, crying drama (not my kid): LOTS
Drive back to Madison: Drama, then calm with food and Happy Meal toys, then drama, then sleeping by all boys except mine, then wide-awake and wiggly boys: much screeching and yelling and laughing and misbehaving.

Arrival time back at home: 11:15. Adam in bed at 11:45, asleep at approximately 11:47.

Sunday: Awake at 6:15 worried about work. Up at 7, working until 11:30. Then nap, despite being jumped on repeatedly by 4 year old. Then shopping. Then teaching Adam to use Wii controller for car racing games. Then relaxing dinner with friends.

Lessons learned:
4 years old is too young to bring a friend along on an extended car trip.
4 years old is too young to be on your own in the back of a car for that long without immediate adult supervision.
4 year olds are very good at entertaining themselves.
Juice boxes should come in waxy, food-grade boxes. Capri Sun is not a juice box. It is a juice bag. Juice bags are evil, especially in cars.

Adam seemed to have fun and was very well behaved for most of the day. The last 2 hours of the day were a bit too much for him, but overall I was proud of how he conducted himself. Hopefully his last(!) Wiggles concert will be one he remembers as being fun and exciting.

Tonight I thought my dinner was missing something. So, once again, I braved the mosquitoes and plucked 2 more red, ripe tomatoes from the garden.
I chopped the roma up in slices, drizzled olive oil over them and lightly peppered them.

Here’s the problem: I have tomatoes ripening at an alarming rate. I have a ton of Romas ripening and some larger ones just turning a brilliant red and begging to be picked. I also have jalapeños and green beans ready to pick.

Won’t someone PLEASE come and pick from my garden? My chest freezer won’t be operational until almost October, so I can’t freeze everything, and since I’m the only one who really wants to eat tomatoes or jalapeños, I need some salsa fanatics to make their way over and pick some.
Please.
The produce is free. The only thing I ask is this: while you’re picking a couple things, pull a couple weeds in return. And be sure to wear some bug spray, those little buggers will eat you alive!