dear mephisto,
thank you for lightening the situation. i was afraid you were going to pick 'la campanella' or a liszt or chopin etude. frankly, i'm better at mozart, beethoven, and schubert ala mode. i tend not to purposely pick really difficult music because my kids get jealous of my time. so, therefore, this wouldn't be a really difficult challenge for you to win (although i am extremely competetive in nature and do not like to lose on piano or bicycle).
what are bjork, furru, or grantre? trees? or are these ski slopes (the trees planted to kill off amateur skiiers). yes, i have at times - barely missed trees whilst skiing. but, i'll have you know - i have either gone between, around, or whatever and missed even standing live moose. (i used to live in alaska and both cross countried and downhilled)
ok. gardening. whew - each of these threads takes on a life of it's own now. this year i planted habanero hot peppers and amazingly they did pretty well. the thing is - i planted some of the bigger plants in a retaining wall area behind my house and they were growing some really big hot peppers. but, the ones i planted right beside my house weren't getting full sun and they are smaller. also, i have an afinity for little flowers. i have a miniature yellow rose plant and planted a lot of wildflower type flowers and daisies - some hydrangias on the retaining wall - some kind of asian flower that produces a lot of seeds and i've replanted the seeds everywhere - and well, a bunch of other stuff that frankly i forgot the names of. usually i plant the little thing that says what it is - but they blow away after awhile.
the grass is terrible. when we bought our home they did not put down top-soil. and, there were rocks galore. so, most everyone re-did their lawns and put down soil and fertilizer to make the grass hardier. we are one of the last people on the block to do the lawn. during the summer - it's kind of good not to have loads of topsoil because they get 'grubs' that eat comfortably at the root and then destroy the nice grass. because ours was on rock - the grubs couldn't find comfy little nitches to start chewing away. so in, the intense heat part of the summer - our lawn didn't look terrible. but, now that it's cooler - it's basically a dead lawn. of course, being december - and still fairly warm - it's not impossible to redo the lawn now. i called a place that still sells grass sod and i found they'll sell 900 square feet of it for 198 dollars. that would be a good thing if it doesn't freeze. tommorrow my son and i are looking at actually renting a rototiller and at least getting the rocks out.