Thought this was gonna present arguments against gay marriage.
I never mow my synlawn.
Is your screen name suggesting there are 107 fruitarians that have come before you?
Could you give me the abstract.....?
I HATE mowing too!! I say pave the whole thing over!
Complete jackassery.
lol! i dont think i'll spoil the boys dilusion
that mowing is a necessity... ;)
I like how the post starts out orderly, with actual paragraphs and line breaks, then devolves into massive blocks of print as the fever outpaces the author's ability to type.
Someone needs a spell in the mayonnaise room.
Thanks for reminding me. My lawn really needs mowing.
"If you've ever mowed your lawn and found a car, you might be a Redneck."
-J. Foxworthy
I kind of like this idea, mainly because it would free up a couple of hours each Saturday from April to October. I don't golf, but maybe I would if I had some extra free time. On second thought, maybe not -- because golf courses are mowed and if I give up mowing, how could I affilate myself with someone who still mows? Maybe I'll go fishing instead.
I'm not sure Mrs. Southside is going to like it, though. She checks the long-term weather forecasts and gets antsy at the thought of rain on Saturdays, which would delay the mowing; and so she comes up with schemes for me to cut out of work early and do the mowing on Friday. But you know, I can count on one hand the number of times it's actually rained on a Saturday and I point this out to her and I tell her if it does rain, well, "que sera, sera baby."
She is also no big fan of the abandoned house down the street from us that has been uninhabited for years and the lawn of which is "returning to nature." There's stuff growing in the back yard that's taller than I am, and the place has become a home for raccoons and opossums and feral cats and who knows what else. Right here in Chicago.
The main drawback for me is -- if I let the place go from lawn to meadow to thicket to forest, where are the kid and I going to toss around the football and stuff? And, Mrs. Southside mentions from time to time her desire to get a swimming pool, but I'm not sure how that would work in a thicket. I'd worry about chiggers. I don't know if we have chiggers in Chicago, but we did when I lived down in southern IL and, let me tell you, they are no fun.
They just stand there and bark.
I thought it was 52 reasons to stop MEOWING.
I was looking for the cat pictures. Then, based on the format, I thought it might be cat ASCII bats.
You signed up yesterday to post this mess?
Fruitarian: I have a dilemma. There are grubs that have infected a portion of my lawn. They are killing the grass. But crows have started pulling up the dead grass and eating the grubs.
Question: Do I protect the lawn by putting down chemicals to kill the grubs? What about the crows food supply?
Should I let the grubs multiply, destroy part of my lawn, but provide nourishment to the crows?
Or (my preferred solution), do I take a multifacted approach: drop the chemicals, kill the grubs, and shoot the frickin' crows with a 22?
Trees are nature's weather stabilizers. We need trillions of trees.. new trees... The average tree creates 5 pounds of oxygen daily.Trees are not nature's weather stabilizers. Trees don't stabilize the weather. Nothing stabilizes the weather. Weather isn't supposed to be stable. People who can't deal with the constant variability that is the weather should stay indoors and keep the thermostat in the comfort zone.
The Tree SolutionAs Greenpeace expanded to become the world's largest international environmental organization, Moore's star steadily rose and he eventually became vice president of research. Then he did something even more unexpected than joining the organization in the first place. He packed up and quit... In the months before his departure, Moore had begun talking heresy. "The environmental movement had gone astray and lost its perspective on forests," Moore says. "Rather than cutting fewer trees and using less wood, we should be growing more trees and using more wood." Greenpeace branded him an eco-Judas. Now comes the biggest surprise of all. Recently published research suggests that Moore is right. Cutting down old trees could be the best way to thwart global warming.
by Jim Wilson