Posted on 09/30/2015 8:49:25 AM PDT by Arec Barrwin
I had to pay a $250 fine a year ago, because the dandelions in my yard had gotten over 10 inches in height (the grass was still under 3-inches).
The lawn police came with their tape measures and issued me a citation. It had only been 7 days since the lawn was last cut.
We got there in the height of summer it was very hot and dry. The lawn started to look bad. The front had sprinklers but the back did not. So, I am out there watering every day. Thinking, hey it's NC--water is every where, I can practically wring it out of the air.
Well, let me put it is perspective. My highest water bill, ever in Arizona--after filling a pool was about $60. I get my first water bill in NC and it's $400. My husband and I say, "Wow, must be a mistake" We call, short of with a chuckle and are, like, "hey got this water bill, looks like some sort of error". ( it looked to have double charges)
She actually says to us, "You wanna have that big green lawn, well, water is expensive" Apparently we could have paid a couple fo thousand dollars to have some sort of meter installed which would have removed the double charges. I know I am not explaining that very well. I knew, at that point, well long before that, I was not going to be there a day longer than I had to be.
“Wasting water on non-productive crops is stupid.”
Liberals believe in “purpose” for the greater good. Welcome to liberalism.
Fine, I’ll follow the lead of Al Gore, George Soros, any Hollywood big shot, etc.
“Wasting water on non-productive crops is stupid.”
P.S. “Wasting water” is a stupid liberal concept that somehow water is “wasted”. Water goes nowhere. It is all still on the planet.
So we need the Federal Government to ban lawns because there might not be enough water in Vegas to keep your Kentucky Bluegrass looking good.
hear, hear
While they never take their own advice. I haven’t in probably my whole life made a bigger “carbon footprint” than Al Gore does on just one of his overseas trips by private jet.
Soviet Union, but it could be NORK, or China.
Our neighbors are in their 80s and keep a flawless lawn. They enjoy the results of their efforts and get healthy exercise. However, many Americans are slobs in sweat suits who never sweat.
So are those miles of concrete cities in which leftists love to congregate(a penthouse if they’re rich enough to suck up even more environment with huge third and fourth homes all over the globe), an environmental nightmare.
thank you for that politically correct insight comrade
Just across the street from my house is a good size park, full of oak trees, every fall, every single leaf from all those trees blows into my yard and stays in my yard until I dispose of them.
One fall, a few years back, the county brought a bunch of trustees from the county jail and they raked the entire park. Best fall I’ve had here but I haven’t seen that gang since.
He can KMA.
My lawn, trees, and garden are my contribution to dust control in a desert environment. I pay for the water. I pay the property taxes. I maintain it because it’s MY land.
NIMBY jerk.
If you’re spending a lot of time on a lawn and think it sucks, you’re doing it wrong. I have 2 acres and spend about an hour a month working on the yard, with maybe an extra hour on the fall and spring for planting flower beds. I consider getting outside for an hour cheap therapy for getting some fresh air and taking my mind off my problems.
Just ask the professionally incompetent simian morons in Big Media.
To Hell with the lot of ‘em.
Tell that to my local government that demands that my lawn is always green and lush otherwise I get fined...
Looks like another problem caused by government that the libs want to solve by throwing MORE government at it.
Good luck with ongoing foundation repairs then.
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