Ranzacts Lawn Service

06/19/2026

Happening Tomorrow... 👍
In Burgaw NC, probably an hour an 20 minutes from Swansboro NC.

Beginning June 19th, the North Carolina Blueberry Festival gets underway in the charming little downtown area of the small town of Burgaw, NC! This beloved early-summer festival celebrates the blueberry-growing heritage of southeastern North Carolina, and it turns downtown Burgaw into a lively weekend filled with food, music, vendors, family fun, and plenty of fresh local berries.

The fun begins Friday night with a free 7:30 PM concert on the Main Stage, followed by the full festival day on Saturday, June 20th, when the streets around town fill with arts and craft vendors, food booths, live entertainment, kids activities, a car and truck show, barbecue, baked goods, and all kinds of blueberry treats. You’ll find farmers and vendors offering fresh blueberries along with pies, cakes, drinks, cobblers, and other sweets that show off the crop this area is known for.

Burgaw is a fitting place for the celebration, too, since Pender County played a major role in North Carolina’s blueberry story. Harold Graham Huntington helped bring commercial blueberry farming to this part of the state in the late 1920s, and by 1939 his Pender County blueberry farm was known as the largest in the world. Today, southeastern North Carolina still produces most of the state’s commercial blueberry crop, thanks in part to the acidic sandy soil that blueberries love. With free admission, small-town charm, live music, local flavor, and a full day of festival fun, the North Carolina Blueberry Festival is one of those June events that feels like summer in the South from the moment you arrive.

06/19/2026

Looking Out For Our Best Interest... 👍😀

Rain Day... No Lawn Services Today

🌧️🚨 RAIN DAY NOTICE 🚨🌧️

☔ Rain Day... No Lawn Services Today ☔

Due to today's wet conditions, Ranzacts Lawn Service will not be operating.

🌱 Mowing wet grass can:
✅ Damage your lawn
✅ Cause uneven cuts
✅ Create equipment issues
✅ Leave ruts and clumps

We'll resume service as soon as conditions improve and lawns have had time to dry.

Thank you for your patience and understanding!

🎯 Ranzacts Lawn Service
"Keeping Your Lawn On Track—Rain or Shine!" 👍🌞🌱🚜

06/18/2026

7 Lawns On Schedule & 7 Completed Today...
On Track Schedule 👍

06/18/2026

Out Enjoying The Heat And Sun Today... 👍🌞

06/17/2026

After Much Needed Soaking Rain... 👍
We'll Resume Lawn Services Tomorrow, Thursday

06/16/2026

Pretty Interesting... 👍

You flick the porch light on a June night and within minutes the soft-winged crowd arrives — and most people never look closely enough to see how beautiful, and how harmless, the regulars are. None of these is eating your house or your sweaters. The fabric-eaters are tiny and live in dark closets; these big showy ones at the bulb are pollinators and moonlight wanderers.

Meet five you'll see this month.

The luna moth — pale green, long-tailed, the size of your palm — is the showstopper. It has no mouth and only about a week to live; it's here to find a mate, nothing more.

The rosy maple moth — small, in sherbet pink and yellow like a frosted candy — looks invented. It isn't. It's one of the most common big moths in the East.

The underwing moths — drab gray bark-mimics at rest — flash startling orange or red hindwings when they jump, a trick to spook a hungry bird.

The sphinx, or hawk, moths — fast, heavy-bodied, hovering at flowers like a hummingbird at dusk — are some of the best night pollinators you have.

And the tiger moths — furry, boldly patterned — whose caterpillars are the woolly bears you'll meet crossing the sidewalk in fall.

Five moths at one bulb, and not one is a threat to anything you own. They're the flowers' night shift, and the reason your porch is briefly the most interesting place in the yard.

Turn the light off when you're done. They've got a moon to follow.

06/16/2026

Just So You Know... 👍

You only know me as two weeks of light in June. I worked toward those two weeks for the better part of two years.

I'm a firefly. Before I was the flash over your lawn, I was something you'd never recognize — a soft, segmented larva living down in your soil and leaf litter, glowing faintly in the dark where no one was watching.

And I wasn't idle down there. I'm a hunter. All that time, I tracked the slugs and snails and soft grubs moving through the damp, followed their slime trails, and cleared them out one by one. The "pests" you fight in the garden all summer? My whole childhood was eating them. The healthier your soil, the more leaf litter you leave, the longer you let the grass grow at the edges — the more of us you raised without ever knowing it.

Then this month, after all that time in the dark, I climbed up and changed. I traded the soil for the air. And now I have almost no time left at all.

The light you see is me looking for a mate, blinking a code only my own species answers. Each kind of firefly has its own rhythm — a long slow pulse, a quick double, a drifting J low over the grass. I get a couple of weeks to find the right answer in the dark. That's it.

Two things end me early: a spotless yard with no damp corners for my young, and a porch light or a lawn chemical that drowns out my signal or kills my larvae before they ever glow.

So if you want more of me next June, the work happens now — underground, in the dark, where you'll never see it.

Leave a wild corner. Kill the lights. The flash you love started two years ago in the soil you almost cleaned up.

06/15/2026

Ahhhh Yeah... Here To The Team!!! 🏆👍🏆
Carolina Hurricanes

06/15/2026

Baking soda can end an ant invasion, and the science behind it is genuinely clever

There's something almost satisfying about a pest solution that costs almost nothing and uses two things already sitting in your kitchen. If ants have been finding their way into your home, this two-ingredient approach is one of the more talked-about DIY options out there, and the reason it works comes down to basic chemistry.

The mix is equal parts: 1 part baking soda and 1 part powdered sugar. The powdered sugar is the draw. Ants are attracted to it and carry the mixture back to the colony. The baking soda is the problem for them. When it interacts with the acidic environment inside an ant's digestive system, research suggests it triggers a gas-producing reaction that the ant cannot survive.

The placement matters as much as the mix.

You pour the combined mixture into a plastic lid, something shallow and easy for ants to access, then set it directly along the paths where you've seen them traveling. Near baseboards, under appliances, along windowsills. The idea is to intercept their route so they find it naturally without you having to track down the nest.

Many people find that results take a few days, not hours, because the goal is for forager ants to bring it back rather than just die at the lid.

If any of these signs are severe or don't fade, it's worth checking with someone qualified.

The plastic lid sitting quietly by your baseboard is a small science experiment, and it works by letting the ants do all the work. 🐜