Add a splash of lime and a salted rim to make suero.

Add lime with muddled mint for fauxjitos.

That app is awesome!

Great point about the HOA. You might be able to skirt them by planting native grasses/flowers/ground covers.

Another cool thing about sedum is you can pretty mich stick it on a rock and it will grow.

Sedum and a hens and chicks succulent on another rock.

Another picture of the hens and chicks. I wanted to show another view because we’ve never seen hens and chicks grow a stalk and flower like this.

You can also see some bugleweed in the lower right. Bugleweed is another spreading ground cover with some varieties to choose from.

Oh yeah, we’re in Missouri, hardiness zone 6b so all these plants can take 100+ F in the summer and -10 F or more winters.

This started as sedum tiles 2 years ago and has filled in and spread out well.

I’ve been keeping a strip cleared to let moss and sedum spread.

My moss garden. It started as a volunteer patch 2 springs ago and I’ve just been keeping it clear. The red and brown on top the moss are spent sporacles. The red sedum split off from the tile nearby which is one of the things I lile about them: they have a variety of colors and shapes to start but I never know which ones will thrive. In the back is silvermound which is a great low growing perrenial with incredibly soft foliage. It smells nice, too.

Thyme, this was a transplant from another patch and started as just a couple stalks in a crevasse. Behind and to the left is a ninbark bush; fast growing, purple-red leaves, with pink or white flowers in the spring. Behind and to the right is a bunchalotta purslane I’ve been halfheartedly weeding; it’s basically a harmless volunteer but spreads so easily I have to keep it in check lest it overwhelm its neighbors. You can also see some sedum I put in the spaces between stones; another perk of the tiles is you can cut them with scissors to fit wherever you need.

Another type of thyme with more varietes of sedum around it and some Irish moss to the left. Same purslane in the back.

Yet more thyme. This was planted last spring and has gone wild wherever it can.

Wooly thyme! This is one of the types I see recommended as walkable. It gets teeny tiny pink flowers in the spring.

Hylotelephium telephium, a type of stonecrop (sedum) plantes by itself (not from a garden tile).

Do you have the thyme? To listen to me whine…

This patch started from a single starter pod from the local nursery last year and has spread itself out well. Water meter for scale. :) Also the patch I took some from for the first thyme picture.

I don’t have personal experience with it but buffalo grass is another no mow solution I’ve looked into when plotting the demise of my monoculture lawn.

Dutch (white) clover is a pretty popular, drought resistant, and low-growing type. Good point about clover improving the soil! It’s a nitrogen fixing plant.

Midwest Native Plant Society is a good resource for going with native plants.

Depending on the drainage in your yard some rain gardens or dry creek beds might be an idea for filling some of the bare patches.

Clover and walkable thyme (wooly and several other varieties out there would work) are good for walking areas. Clover is fairly easy to get started replacing grass: just overseed it in the fall, seed on top of the last snow of winter, and overseed again in the spring. I have 3 or 4 types of thyme in my yard that look great in their little spots but could easily be planted and allowed to spread into ground cover.

Sedum/stonecrop is great drought resistant ground cover that looks cool. If you have enough shade: consider moss for less trafficked areas.

I’ve used Sedum Tiles in several gardens around our yard and the walkway up to our house. They grown in well and will spread out well.

I’ll try to remember to take some pictures when I get home.

When did their music get so political?

/s

It is something I’ve seen asked.

Lot of good suggestions.

I would add wet dry shop vac for cleaning big messes of all kinds.

Or, image reversed, west/east Washington

The Missouri-Illinois border is the Mississippi river. Hard to accidentally cross it.

Edit: I take that back. I wasn’t accounting for the crazy interchanges in St. Louis right before and after the three bridges that cross near downtown. So you have all the local traffic and exits for downtown piled up with local and interatate traffic crossing the bridges. People love it.

Split Fiction from the same team is good, too.

Off the top of my head.

Peak

Sunderfolk, needs a tablet or phone as a controller, though.

Brothers: A Tale of Two Suns

Sunderered

It Takes Two

Split Fiction

And again, generation X completely forgotten about.

I was spared but my wife was damaged by this also. I watched it with her as an adult and couldn’t believe people let their kids watch it.

The 80s were so brutal. We had a kids movie that starts with the main character’s horse dying from sadness.

“I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar.” are some damn fine final words.

You can’t take the sky from me.

I can’t believe they had us watch that in gradeschool.