I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

-Susan B. Anthony

That’s because most companies cut the patterns out in bulk, so given how fabric wiggles you end up with an inch or two of variance across the group.

It would probably need a fair bit of water, too, unless you’re in a more humid climate with summer rains. It is a grass after all.

Unless you planted a tropical clumper, the concrete wouldn’t take damage. A runner would probably pass under it and show up on the other side eventually though. You can stop that by cutting the rhizomes back in summer and fall (think of it like edging a lawn), but it sounds like that space might be too narrow to set that sort of system up well.

Actually it spreads very predictably (in either circles or a collection of straight lines) and if you want to get rid of it, just cut it to the ground and stumpgrind out the rhizomes, which are the only part that can spread the plant (and for most species are found in the top 12 inches of soil). If someone tells you that you need to get out every tiny root, they’re bullshitting you.

My aunt’s cat was basically a neighborhood cat lol. I remember once we were taking a stroll around the neighborhood together and happened to look in one of the neighbor’s windows… and there he was, stretched out on the back of the couch, watching football with the neighbor.

When she moved out everyone came by to say goodbye to her cat lol

Pippin is the son of the Thrain, who is the hobbits’ stand-in for the absent King in Gondor.

Frodo is a Baggins, but like Bilbo has Took relations, as both families are old, powerful, and often intermarried. His family also owns much of the land in and around Hobbiton. So basically landed gentry in all but name.

Merry is the son of the Master of Buckland, one of the oldest families running one of the oldest parts of the Shire. So also basically landed gentry.

Gimli is a descendant of Durin, although not in a direct oldest-son line like Thorin was.

And of course Boromir is the son of the Steward, who was just shy of a king in all but name.