Change of plans

I was going to rush around and get a bunch of chores done today. But then I realized it's a holiday in the US (President's Day) so I can't go to the bank or the post office. So I'm doing the wash and going to work in the garden today. With the relatively wet weather this winter and a few days in the upper 60s my garden looks lush with weeds. Most of them I can handle with a weed eater, but there is a particular kind that seems to attract termites. When the plant dies in late summer the @$%# bugs think the roots are yummy. Of course when the roots are gone, and their numbers have swelled then they look for other things to eat. I can't spray most places because the cactus would try to suck up and store the poison. So I pull those particular weeds one by one.