Life in the future
Are we certain that Natural-lawn advocate isn’t just a synonym for too lazy to do lawn maintenance.
The future is stupid.
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August 31st, 2017 at 7:09 pm
A friend of mine tells a story about a friend of his who lived in Madison, WI for several years. The friend didn’t like yard work and let his lawn get unruly. He was cited and fined several times over the issue, but claims that after he erected a sign which said “Prairie Restoration Project” he was never bothered again. Heh.
I think it’s a tall tale, but it’s Madison so who knows.
August 31st, 2017 at 7:45 pm
My HOA here in a suburb of Austin, Texas, has been getting after me about my shrubbery, which has a rounded natural shape rather than the straight lines & 90 degree corners of my neighbors. After a brief email discussion with the HOA powers that be, about the difference between their Boxwoods and my Indian Hawthorne, and the aesthetic differences each required, I was told to trim my shrubs or face fines.
Here’s hoping the HOA likes bare branched shrubberies until next spring.
August 31st, 2017 at 9:03 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharawadgi
August 31st, 2017 at 10:14 pm
Fine line between preferring a more natural ‘scape and wackadoodle gaia worship I guess. But I do (did, since sold) like to sit on the porch of our North Georgia mountain place and watch the leaves and trees and groundcover do their thing.
I won’t deny my aversion to being a slave to a manicured carpet of grass, even the Florida house in a golf course neighborhood where HOA has rules like this lady’s I left the back third of our acre to the pines and palmettos and call it a “buffer”.
But wifey loves her floratam sodded lawn and flower beds so we piss away a couple hundred a month on a crew with $10,000 ZTR’s, another crew to spray on various poisons, and of course an elaborate irrigation system to keep the stuff the cycle going year-round.
I would opt to keep the native Bahia grass that is green in the summer rains and goes dormant in winter then regenerates all by its natural self, and complaints from neighbors or the busybody HOA be damned (they once dropped an assessment for leaving the motorhome in the driveway too many days when their attorney who sends out the demand letters recused himself because he had been my lawyer for real estate deals before he was theirs).
Going up against the desires and demands of my little five-foot-nothing blonde Georgia girl is something else again though; 46 years and counting and I learned long ago that in most cases acquiescence is the path of least pain and resistance, keeping mama happy keeps me happy…and healthy.
August 31st, 2017 at 11:03 pm
Personally, having to do yard work is a major part of why I have no real desire to enter the world of home ownership. Also because I like having money, I have better things to do with my life than slaving away at “home improvement,” and I have the option of picking up and moving cross country (again) the next time I either get let go or decide I want a new job.
September 1st, 2017 at 11:37 am
I do it to some extent, but it seems to me that lawnwork is an extension of the “bread and circuses” to keep the sheeple occupied, spending time and money on yard competition.
September 1st, 2017 at 9:22 pm
For all the flowers in your great gardens, I know you in my nose. Keep your stink off my name, or by God, I will clip you as close as one of your gelded trees…
September 2nd, 2017 at 1:27 pm
I guess it depends on how you define maintenance.
To me, anything more than mowing the grass every week or two to keep nuisance bugs down and from losing small children and pets is a hobby, not maintenance.
You like to edge with a pair of nail clippers? Go to it. Don’t expect me to care.
I specifically told our realtor that homes in HOA areas were a non starter and don’t waste our time showing them.