Strained analogy of the week!

The Rocky:

Campaign lessons can help in your landscape's race against weeds

Election fever is tolerable if it happens around plants. At least in the garden, mudslinging and manure spreading are honorable activities, and if you dig up a little dirt, no one seems to mind.

Our yards have a lot in common with the political landscape, and when the Associated Landscape Contractors of Colorado (alcc.com) offered these fall talking points, we couldn't resist sowing a little humor into them.

Yeah, humor. Here's a good line, though:

Weeds, like political ads, pop up over and over, leaving us with the desire to take a hoe and pummel them. . . .

Let me try it! Cutesy writers, like political ads, pop up over and over, leaving us with the desire to take a hoe . . .