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.
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.
Agree. I never understood the obsession. I have a 2 plus acre property with probably 3/4 of an acre of grass. The house came with an irrigation sprinkler system installed by the prior owner. It’s been almost 3 years and I’ve yet to turn it on. We live in Massachusetts and usually get enough rain to keep the grass mostly green. But I couldn’t care less when the lawn turns brown in high summer.
I mow it enough for it to look neat, but that’s about it. I fertilize the front grass once a year. With a wife and 3 kids under 10, I have better things to do with my time.
With that being said...the Freeper in me realizes that some people love their lawn, love to fuss over it, and love to have it look like a perfect lush green carpet. That’s ok with me. It’s their water bill.
But it’s the friggin’ busy body Democrats that f it up for everyone by telling you how awful you are, and how much resources you’re “wasting” etc. screw em’
The lawn has died where I grew up—in Arizona!
Except on golf courses, of course!!!!
Move to the Northeast, we have plenty of water and hardly ever have draught condidtions and almost never have dozens of forest fires throughout the state. Besides, we have a net loss of population due to high taxes as the governments are almost all left wing dems with their only focus on welfare programs. We need more people to afford to stay here or we will move South and West and futher strain the water shortages.
We never water in Wisconsin. The rain from the sky takes cre of it. Only the flower beds get water, and only those close to the house. The mowing never stops, however, until the first freeze. Then we get a break until spring.
No, he doesn't have a point. He's just ‘in fashion’...
“and 10- or 11-year-old me decided that the next-door neighbor’s lawn “
If you were 10 in 1995, shut up and don’t work about me and my lawn. And stay off it Ahole. In fact, wont even think about it, its none of your business unless you pay my water bill.
No one from the leftist rag Dallas Observer has much of a point.
But I do think that the solution isn’t “no lawn,” but the RIGHT lawn. In Texas, that’s one that’s drought tolerant, like buffalo grass. And don’t demand that it be so pristine.
I visited the GW Bush Library in Dallas last weekend, and the buffalo grass planted there was a soft wheat color, but charmingly wavy and unkempt. That’s how I want my lawn in summer.
A patch of green lawn is a nice thing to sink your toes in on a hot summer day. And it doesn’t take much to give the illusion of coolness. That said, green lawns are a dead space. Lawn as we know it, doesn’t support fauna, and absorbs copious amounts of water. Better to have your yard support native flora, so as to support native fauna. Food growing is not included in my comments. Fruit trees and veggie-herb gardens are a good thing.
I’ve lived at my home in Missouri for 10 years now and have never once watered or fertilized the lawn. The grass just grows around here whether you want it or not.
I spend less time and money mowing by very large lawn each week than most liberals spend in line at Starbuck’s each week.
Maintaining them is time-consuming and expensive. They suck up ungodly amounts of water. When it rains, their fertilizer-heavy runoff pollutes waterways. They pit neighbor against neighbor’s kids. They are decadent and unsustainable totems of middle-class prosperity.”
This is an especially tight and compact example of Marxist screed. In a sick way, I really admire the author of this prose....
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.