Posted on 09/30/2015 8:49:25 AM PDT by Arec Barrwin
I’ve always like the surfaces of miniature golf courses.
**** “Doing my part through neglect, laziness, and attrition!” ****
It has been my SOP for the last 10 years, the Code Enforcement folks have finally been convinced that I am Right
The only point he made is that he is lazy and anti-lawn. He's probably also anti-BBQ grill. I do my own lawn. I work full time and have lots of other things to do. However, as a homeowner, I take pride in the curb appeal of my house and take the time to do the work. Keeping my lawn neat also helps me burn off some calories and carbs. If I didn't do the lawn, I'd just have to spend more time on my stationary bike.
I run a gas-powered lawn mower and a gas-powered edger. I probably fill up my gas can twice a season; three if I use my gas-powered pressure washer a lot. The idea that lawn mowers use a lot of gas is BS. This author just sounds like another leftard "there oughtta be a law" control freak/loser.
The only thing worse than a lazy, smug, liberal holier-than-thou, suburbanite is one that's from Texass. They really know it all.
I keep trying to tell my husband this! Lawns make no sense to me - we water and fertilize it so it will grow. Once it grows, are we happy? NO! We then have to mow it so it doesn’t look “weedy”. Total waste of effort and land, in my opinion.
“Yes I spend thousands on my yard every year, you commies want to take that from me too?”
Yes, they do. They think choice must have limits, their limits. I think we need to limit liberals.
In Texas, he’s probably got a point. Does anything other than tumbleweed grow there?
AKA Toilet for stray cats ;)
That "established science" fact was covered in Earth Science in freshman year of high school but they were all absent that day, I guess.
But I thought they were “PRO-CHOICE” without limits?
/s
Thanks for posting the video. They have a lovely front garden. Good on them.
I traded in most of my lawn on my double lot for potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, beans, cucumbers, onions, asparagus, sugar beets, sweet corn, carrots, squash, melons, etc.
I find that they taste much better.
However, this writer simply comes across as a lazy liberal.
If we ever get rain again I’m going to try planting clover again.
Needs far less water than a lawn.
Attracts bees for the garden.
The drought and the threat of high water bills made us give up on the lawn which was really a scruffy patchwork of tree litter, tufts of grass and broadleaf items.
I felt like an idiot when I’d go water my sorry excuse for a lawn. Very difficult to maintain under cedar trees.
And by the way, the little bit of lawn I still have left I never water. First of all, the dang water is too expensive since the DNR’s policies drove our local water and sewage rates sky high, and second, why would I want to encourage it anyhow? :-)
Not to mention chiggers. I’m usually good at keeping up with grass mowing. One time years ago I got behind for some reason and the grass was pretty high. That was the only time I ever had a problem with chiggers.
You’re welcome. I love their front yard garden setup.
This is another neat setup. He’s got a channel of his own. Some of his stuff is wacky but the following link should show the genesis of his setup from the beginning:
https://www.youtube.com/user/growingyourgreens/videos?flow=grid&sort=da&view=0
“But don’t lawns turn CO2 into Oxygen? Seems like a good thing to me.”
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That benefit and others as well...
“CALIFORNIA DROUGHT: Grass may keep yards cooler”
“Experts laud lawns for keeping temps down, warning that rock and artificial turf could heat things up
(snip)Some researchers agree, saying the mass extraction of turf and the demise of shrubs and trees as Californians stop watering their landscapes will have a detrimental effect on the environment.
Dennis Pittenger, an environmental horticulturist for UC Cooperative Extension at UC Riverside, and colleague Donald Hodel contend that the turf removal trend began as a knee-jerk reaction to the drought, without consideration for grass’ capacity to cool, store carbon, filter pollution and control erosion and dust.
“There’s really been no public discussion of this. It’s being forced down people’s throats whether it makes sense or not,” Pittenger said. “There’s some real value to landscapes, and the water they use is justified to provide those benefits.”
http://www.pe.com/articles/water-779947-grass-percent.html
I have the same issue, but I get a whole city blocks’ worth of leaves on top of those from the city park. I have taken to putting up hurricane fence so that the bulk of them don’t accumulate in my yard anymore.
I was tired of dealing with disposal of 90+ bags of leaves that weren’t mine.
No. He never makes a point. Lots of logical fallacies in this piece. In Florida i don’t water my lawn from April through September because it rains almost every day.
The author is just another lefty who never got over having his feelings hurt as a child so his answer is to control every aspect of everyone else’s lives.
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