1 Hip repair involves stabilizing broken bones with surgical screws, nails, rods, or plates. This type of surgery is usually for people who have fractures in which the bones can be properly aligned. This may also be called hip pinning..  Hip replacement surgery (arthroplasty).
Homeowners should know that from now until mid-March is the ideal time to spray your lawn for our winter spectrum of weeds.. Weeds still growing. Even though the warm-season turfgrass in your lawn isn't green, various winter annual weeds are growing. These include common chickweed, henbit and annual bluegrass.
Dethatch the Lawn. The best time to dethatch a cool-season lawn is early fall or early spring and a warm-season lawn is early summer. For small areas, use a thatching rake, which is a sharp-tined rake that rips the thatch out of the lawn, to remove thatch; leaf rakes or hard rakes may also be used but may not work as well depending on the situation.