I couldn't find Clint Eastwood yelling at people to get off his lawn so I found one of John McCaine.
Posted on 09/30/2015 8:49:25 AM PDT by Arec Barrwin
I have three lawn mowers (4wd push mower, birth of for the tractor and a 46” rider. Next year I’m adding a 54” zero turn. I have several acres of lawn and it is like a park. We never water, nor do we fertilize. Neither is necessary.
We live in KY. Mowing the lawn is a pastime here.
This guy can apply his sensibilities to his neighborhood and leave the rest of us alone.
Boy. Auto correct really messed that up. Birth of = Bush hog.
I miss having my own chickens. Eggs in SoCal are about $5 a dozen. We have a small enclosed back garden at our house and keeping 6-8 hens would be doable, The problem being the park management would not be happy.
“It’s easier to tend though, and nobody says it really needs anything beyond a lawn mower if one is willing to tolerate some weeds.”
I agree, as long as it’s somewhat green and can be mowed. The downfall is when people go chemical happy and spend thousands eliminating weeds.
Sort of like trying to get the right balance of chemicals in a swimming pool.
Speaking of pools, if you want to bury money in the ground, use mason jars instead.
Wow. We keep chickens in the backyard. Fortunately we live in the country so we can have roos in there too. I’d miss my chickens.
I grow several hills of the giant Asian cucumbers and another couple hills of pattypan squash just for the chickens. I’m planting a whole row of mixed greens for them today in fact for fall/winter chicken treats.
We’d love a bush hog. We have the zero turn mower though. We let it grow more than a HOA would allow but then sweep the clippings for use in the garden. Nothing goes to waste.
And we don’t water the lawn either. Edible stuff gets watered though. Garden, fruit trees, berry bushes, etc.
I have some of my best trains-of-thought while mowing the lawn. First, I ask myself if I am “mowing the lawn” or “cutting the grass”. I think about all of my fathers lawn-mowers that I’d used while growing up. It re-occurs to me that “good fences make good neighbors”. I think about Ray Bradbury and “Dandelion Wine”. I contemplate the philosophical difference between “Get off my lawn!” and “keep off the grass”. One little snip of that tuft of grass over by that rock can make all the difference between unkempt and well-groomed. It is about cultivation and civilization and landscaping.
I don t need another blowhard trying to take away anything that I have or like to do. If I want a lawn so be it. Fu@k this guy.
Once read a post from a West Texan, “whatever pops up as green I bless it”..... as for my lawn just about the same. It all looks similar when mowed down low, eheheheh.
Wrong! Ethanol is killing the bees. http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/02/opinion/flottum-bees-death/
I haven’t watered or fertilized my acre in well over a decade. When I moved in, it was better described as dirt with patches of weeds. Today, my lawn looks better than ever. Sure, it still has a lot of weeds, but it’s at least half actual grass, and it’s green from spring till late autumn, and has few, if any, bare spots. And my neighbor loves using his riding mower so much that he asked if he could mow my lawn when he mows his. I said yes.
You’re right. Public housing high rises... Cabrini Green for all Americans... that’s what commies want. Four hundred and four days until Obama is out of office... and counting...
Our ranch had a big lawn. Had to cut it three or four times
a season and somehow managed to get rid of 600 tons of the stuff every year....
How he got into the garage is sort of a mystery. But he was probably fairly close and sneaked in when I had the garage door open. I have some glue traps set for him, but no luck so far. Good thing there aren't prairie rattlesnakes around here.
P.S. I haven't told the wife yet. I told her I saw something, but I wasn't sure what it was. She's deathly afraid of all snakes. If the traps don't get him, I hope the coming sub-freezing weather will do him in.
I love my lawn
I despise Scott
The dude that does the voice always sounds like he’s trying to push a 3 inch wide turd out a 1 inch wide sphincter
I couldn't find Clint Eastwood yelling at people to get off his lawn so I found one of John McCaine.
-PJ
Speaking of chiggers, when my father moved to Texas after retirement, one of the first things he did was take his shoes off on a golf course to look for a lost ball in the weeds a small creek. Yep...he had severe case of itching chigger bites for a month or so.
I haven’t seen any snakes for ages around here. I’m kind of surprised too, since I live fairly close to a wetland. I don’t know whether I would tell my wife or not if I saw any. She’s afraid too, but it would probably be better for her to be alert to the possible presence of snakes rather than just come upon one,
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