Posted on 09/30/2015 8:49:25 AM PDT by Arec Barrwin
North Korea?
The author is a liberal loser who’s just trying to justify his laziness.
A very old argument.
The US has more fresh water then most anywhere else but we do have regions of draught and water supply issues that have existed for many decades, largely due to urban sprawl.
In many of these regions, lawns are not advisable, and most use rock gardens etc..
There is no imperative for government to step into this in any direct way, IMO.
Water is regulated already and has always been so, and customers will have to deal with these regs on a case by case basis. lawn or no lawn is a matter of money and personal taste or in some cases impossible..
The other day, I peeked outside the window and found that 70-something neighbor had taken it upon himself to mow our front yard. It's not something I'm proud of, but my wife and I figured it'd be best to retreat quietly from the windows. We wouldn't want to startle him and make him fall.
Bet it was a good party!
I looked into that stuff...it can run between $10 and $20 a square foot.
Like a knucklehead I parked myself on about an acre and a half of lawn...60,000 square feet!...I may as well cover it in Italian marble or whatever...
We deliberately leave the natural clover patches every spring until they’ve stopped blooming. Specifically for the bees.
I’’m more of a fan of this type of front yard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpU-SS_CbWI
This American’s lawn died a long time ago. I have a Dirt landscape with an interesting collection of flowering weeds. I do pull out the stick-tights and sandspurs and try to keep down the smilax but I don’t sweat the St Augustine or Bahia..
No lawns for me. Give me an orchard or a field with cattle and horses. Not only a waste of water (all the green grass is burned up in the tribulation so maybe God doesn’t agree with lawn mowers either) but also a stinking waste of time. Gardens. Grow veggies and flowers. Maybe a patch 10 feet around a bird bath in the middle of a tree grove where the sun shines through every once in a blood moon.
That is what Agenda 21 i about and it IS coming to you.
You want to see lawn crazies? Go to Denver sometime!
Another watermelon. I’ll keep my lawn. If he wants to save water, he can find alternatives to washing his clothes. By far, washing clothes does more to harm the environment than any other water activity.
The other thing he can do is find other uses for his time other than looking over my fence and feeling inferior.
Weeds. LOL I call it prairie grass.
The writer is lazy, got it. :)
The biggest libs I know have the biggest lawns.
No well or sprinkler system, so I’m good.
When you live in an area which snakes are know to exist, the best thing you can do is maintain short grass.
There’s an advantage to living in central Florida. I haven’t watered my lawn in ten years and it looks as good as or better than neighboring lawns. We get some much regular rain the place stays green with nothing more than a little fertilizer. That’s one thing I don’t miss about living in the desert southwest ... the brown-ness.
I have an acre of Bermuda lawn where the front, sides and a small part of the backyard gets chemical ministrations from Tru-Green with the remainder of the back having a mix of Bermuda grass, dandelions, clover, and assorted grasses/weeds including a small forested area totally given over to Nature. I notice the local honeybee population making regular visits to the clover areas. The forested area is used by wildlife of every kind for cover. The deer use it as their approach to the persimmon tree in the back part of the property.
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