[xrmusn]

look, i’m about 1 mile South of the Beltway
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After 40+ years ‘inside the Beltway’ (Annandale) the wife always had a ‘modest little garden’ etc...
BTW all - although 40+ yrs I was hardly what one would call ‘Inside the Beltway material”

Going through some of these responses etc, I got thinking
‘what would Charles Mac would have contributed to this site...<: <:’

[muawiyah]

Which Charles Mac? I”ve known several ~ usually with much more in the rest of their last name.

[muawiyah]

There are vast stretches of Annandale where people have TWO ACRE YARDS, although that central core has a lot of 1/4 acre lots. Much of that was carved out in the 1950s ~ the soil around here tends to not perc to standards so if you wanted residential properties without sewers you absolutely had to GO BIG. That attracted gardeners, and through the early 70s there were lots of folks with 4 acre lots between Springield and Arlington/Alexandria who actually had horses. Then the county did the big territory swap with Alexandria and split along the beltway, and the horse lots were zoned out of existence.

When I moved in this development one of the neighbors in the older surrounding area still had a farm tractor ~ he ploughed hundreds of acres in the Spring ~ and harrowed in the Fall. Then he had a large earth mover and regularly hired out with residential developers to do site prep. Guy weighed about 400 pounds.