Can all these business please do something about their bandwidth.

...Huh. Just realized Koi Farm was taking up a huge amount of my CPU and Firefox loads much faster when it's not running in the background. This is good to know, though it means I can't have multicolored fish proliferating in the background while I use my browser.

I'm not sure if it's quite what you're looking for, but if you're looking for critters to do stuff while you do stuff, Creatures Docking Station might be worth a look? The base game is free and there's TONS of mods for it out there.

Creatures Docking Station on Steam

Oooooh! I do like critters doing stuff while I do stuff. I'll take a look at it, thank you!

You're welcome! 💖 It's a neat little game! If you have any questions, I'd be glad to answer them! 😊

cannibalherpes So the lawn question! Right now I'm in a climate where most of the successful lawns are crabgrass. There are large bare spots on this lawn and the topsoil seems thin and dry with sand underneath.

I've been told that the bare spots are because of the three huge trees shading the entire yard whose thick, wide leaves prevent a lot of the rain from reaching the ground while the roots suck up what does get through,

so the ground ends up chronically dry despite lots of rain. I've recently had to have a bunch of the roots chopped out to stop foundation/sidewalk/driveway damage.

(pics incoming)

Trees:

Roots:

Crabgrass trying its best:

just rhizoming its way out into the void

you can see how the dirt is sandy even though it's pocked from yesterday's rain

I figured it'd need more than a bag o' hardware store dirt with grass seeds (and my rural soul balks at buying dirt)

so that's basically the issue: the existing grass is not being successful and I've been told it's because the trees make the ground too dry. This isn't urgent at all; I won't be proactively fixing this very soon because doing more time-sensitive things, but it'd be good to know some terminology when I do get to it.

(The roots have been a problem, and I did get them chopped away from the foundations and driveway.

Taking the trees down would be much more expensive.)

(I can, however, report that the trees are fun to climb. c: )

(..Tbh, right now, I'm more interested in Knowledge Exposition than solutions, so anything that comes to your and/or Sergio's mind about this is welcome. ^^)