There is something about going out in my yard, for the 1st time of the season. Something about the smell of that fresh cut grass. Something about Spring/Summer.
Oh wait, I know what that something is!
I HATE MOWING THE FUCKING LAWN!!!!!!!
Take me piece by piece..... Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
There is something about going out in my yard, for the 1st time of the season. Something about the smell of that fresh cut grass. Something about Spring/Summer.
Oh wait, I know what that something is!
I HATE MOWING THE FUCKING LAWN!!!!!!!
Ha. Mowed mine for the first time Sunday. My neighbor was doing his as well. Said to him "Beats shoveling snow". Much as I hate mowing the lawn, won't be complaining this summer.
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There is something about going out in my yard, for the 1st time of the season. Something about the smell of that fresh cut grass. Something about Spring/Summer.
no rain in the forecast today, should be a good evening to cut the lawn
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We haven't mowed yet this year. Today was the first real spring day. I suppose summer weather is right around the corner Hubs said he wants to make an oasis of wildflowers out of the backyard, which I love! There will be little patches here and there, and there, to attract birds and butterflies and bees. It's gonna look gorgeous and we can add all kinds of fun stuff like shitty looking statues Later he told me that he loves the idea of not mowing a big lawn. I can live with that, totally. I cannot wait for the beautiful backyard wilderness. Front lawn will still need mowing, but that can be done with the thing that we have, the pusher thingy.
post some pictures of the wildflower oasis!
I will, but it might be a while. In the meantime, I am trying to figure out a nice way to fight the mosquitoes without killing the birds. I have set up a couple of feeders and love watching the birds coming in. When I set them up, I didn't think about the mosquitoes (the winter was so long and I am not fully accomodated to the weather and seasons in the US yet). We don't have standing water and I think the birds will take care of some of them too. But then we have to find something. Last year, we tried garlic concentrate. But this is more like a barrier and there were too many. Any suggestions?
Leeze, have you put up a bat house to try to encourage bats? They, supposedly, eat mosquitos. I was told marigolds are good bug repellants, but I think you would need to plant a few acres of them for any noticeable difference (unlike the 20 plants I planted).
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my lawn is as brown or more as it normally is in august at this point. we need about a week's worth of rain over here....
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Odd, mine looks better than it usually does. Really happy with it right now and I didn't do anything special. You got a bit of rain yesterday at least.
We haven't mowed yet this year. Today was the first real spring day. I suppose summer weather is right around the corner Hubs said he wants to make an oasis of wildflowers out of the backyard, which I love! There will be little patches here and there, and there, to attract birds and butterflies and bees. It's gonna look gorgeous and we can add all kinds of fun stuff like shitty looking statues Later he told me that he loves the idea of not mowing a big lawn. I can live with that, totally. I cannot wait for the beautiful backyard wilderness. Front lawn will still need mowing, but that can be done with the thing that we have, the pusher thingy.
post some pictures of the wildflower oasis!
I will, but it might be a while. In the meantime, I am trying to figure out a nice way to fight the mosquitoes without killing the birds. I have set up a couple of feeders and love watching the birds coming in. When I set them up, I didn't think about the mosquitoes (the winter was so long and I am not fully accomodated to the weather and seasons in the US yet). We don't have standing water and I think the birds will take care of some of them too. But then we have to find something. Last year, we tried garlic concentrate. But this is more like a barrier and there were too many. Any suggestions?
Leeze, have you put up a bat house to try to encourage bats? They, supposedly, eat mosquitos. I was told marigolds are good bug repellants, but I think you would need to plant a few acres of them for any noticeable difference (unlike the 20 plants I planted).
We have not set up a bat house, but I think we have a wren family in our bird nest box and I see the robin is super busy eating all kinds of things on the lawn. Also, we have a ton of toads. So far, I am surviving
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Odd, mine looks better than it usually does. Really happy with it right now and I didn't do anything special. You got a bit of rain yesterday at least.
Mine was in great shape up until about a week ago. Yeah yesterday helped but need a lot more. I haven't watered it yet strictly out of principle--it's not even June yet!
I wish the neighbors would take care of their dandelions...my yard is free of them...for now.
Keep your puffy dandelion floaties to yourself...
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finally a few days worth of rain. my lawn is being brought back to life.
I don't think there is any saving the lawn...probably will have to re-seed in the fall.
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I don't think there is any saving the lawn...probably will have to re-seed in the fall.
Aren't you in Seattle? Not getting enough rain up there?
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That time of year again.....I have the undocumenteds coming on Monday!
Should be due for my first MOW in a week or two perhaps.
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Also--my damn dog. She tends to piss in one 4ft by 4ft area in the yard. Sounds good, right? No brown/yellow spots all over the place, right? No, this one spot is right off the deck. Right next to our garden. Worst possible spot. I hate it. Why can't she just go out in the back part of the yard to do her business? Same thing happened at our last house. So frustrating.
Planted grass there in the Fall. Totally brown again (this was a yearly thing at the last house too, except I laid sod instead of planting. Every year I'd do this and she'd piss all over it shortly after. Rinse and repeat!). I should've kept it fenced off from her over the winter.
So do I plant grass there again, or do I concede defeat?
If your dog insists on urinating there all the time, I would concede defeat. When we had a dog, she would urinate alongside our fence. Just meant less work with the weedeater for me!
There are supposed to be spot guard solutions (I've seen them in home improvement stores), but I don't know how effective they are.
our first dog went to "the rocks" everytime and then came back to the back door. our last two dogs, not so much.
If I had known then what I know now...
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I've only had female dogs. Is this right? I never knew there was a difference.
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Company came last week for an estimate, should have dates soon. Keeps raining like this and the first mow will be before they get the yard in shape. Need to have some earth moved and a stump taken care of this year as well. Going to cost!
green out there quite emerald cutting it will smell up all the lands here in a bit as will slowly grilling & smoking meats over apple, mesquite, cherry & hickory woods
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
Lawn culture is pretty nutty, the amount of money people spend on grass is nuttier than squirrel shit. If it isn't wackygrass it can do it's own thing. Be green, grow...that's about it. Lawns are weak ass ecosystems where people squeeze out every wild flower for an outdoor carpet. The only thing more American would be if people paved their back yards over lol
I have 2 acres of lawn which is an impediment to my time spent growing plants which provide sustenance for my family. Every year I squeeze more lawn out for perennials, brambles, and wildflowers to draw and sustain pollinators. Mow time goes down, food stores go up, and ecosystem thrives.
All that said, the smell of fresh cut grass and the mosquito reduction are two joys of mowing.
My house is bigger than my lawn...I spent so much time making sure the weeds were gone the first year we moved in...but the neighbors don't weed. So now I have weeds in the lawn.
I found a good natural solution to kill the weeds since there are too many to hand pull.
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
Lawn culture is pretty nutty, the amount of money people spend on grass is nuttier than squirrel shit. If it isn't wackygrass it can do it's own thing. Be green, grow...that's about it. Lawns are weak ass ecosystems where people squeeze out every wild flower for an outdoor carpet. The only thing more American would be if people paved their back yards over lol
I have 2 acres of lawn which is an impediment to my time spent growing plants which provide sustenance for my family. Every year I squeeze more lawn out for perennials, brambles, and wildflowers to draw and sustain pollinators. Mow time goes down, food stores go up, and ecosystem thrives.
All that said, the smell of fresh cut grass and the mosquito reduction are two joys of mowing.
it appears 'penn & teller's' show 'bullshit' is not free on the old youtube. they did a episode on lawns. every year america spends as much as the entire national product of vietnam on lawns.
Lawn culture is pretty nutty, the amount of money people spend on grass is nuttier than squirrel shit. If it isn't wackygrass it can do it's own thing. Be green, grow...that's about it. Lawns are weak ass ecosystems where people squeeze out every wild flower for an outdoor carpet. The only thing more American would be if people paved their back yards over lol
I have 2 acres of lawn which is an impediment to my time spent growing plants which provide sustenance for my family. Every year I squeeze more lawn out for perennials, brambles, and wildflowers to draw and sustain pollinators. Mow time goes down, food stores go up, and ecosystem thrives.
All that said, the smell of fresh cut grass and the mosquito reduction are two joys of mowing.
it appears 'penn & teller's' show 'bullshit' is not free on the old youtube. they did a episode on lawns. every year america spends as much as the entire national product of vietnam on lawns.
Yowza!!! My neighbor goes nuts...fertilizer, herbicide, mow twice a week with the roller on the back to flatten patterns into the grass, repeat over and over... It's just grass. His meticulously cared for lawn just looks like a lawn. It's like a metaphor for American life, caring more for the appearance of a happy life than actually living a happy life...
I want to tell at him, USE YOUR FUCKING TIME AND ENERGY ON SOMETHING WORTHWHILE AND GROW SOME GODDAMN FOOD!
My house is bigger than my lawn...I spent so much time making sure the weeds were gone the first year we moved in...but the neighbors don't weed. So now I have weeds in the lawn.
I found a good natural solution to kill the weeds since there are too many to hand pull.
I don't get it, when I mow the weeds get mowed down with the grass...why do they need removed? 90% of them produce lovely flowers which feed the bugs of you let them get high enough, which doesn't happen if you mow.
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Something about the smell of that fresh cut grass.
Something about Spring/Summer.
Oh wait, I know what that something is!
I HATE MOWING THE FUCKING LAWN!!!!!!!
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
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2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
You got a bit of rain yesterday at least.
Keep your puffy dandelion floaties to yourself...
- Christopher McCandless
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Should be due for my first MOW in a week or two perhaps.
Planted grass there in the Fall. Totally brown again (this was a yearly thing at the last house too, except I laid sod instead of planting. Every year I'd do this and she'd piss all over it shortly after. Rinse and repeat!). I should've kept it fenced off from her over the winter.
So do I plant grass there again, or do I concede defeat?
There are supposed to be spot guard solutions (I've seen them in home improvement stores), but I don't know how effective they are.
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
quite emerald
cutting it will smell up all the lands here in a bit
as will slowly grilling & smoking meats over apple, mesquite, cherry & hickory woods
life's a real bastard
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
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Some days I swear I want the fake grass turf.
- Christopher McCandless
If it isn't wackygrass it can do it's own thing. Be green, grow...that's about it. Lawns are weak ass ecosystems where people squeeze out every wild flower for an outdoor carpet.
The only thing more American would be if people paved their back yards over lol
I have 2 acres of lawn which is an impediment to my time spent growing plants which provide sustenance for my family. Every year I squeeze more lawn out for perennials, brambles, and wildflowers to draw and sustain pollinators. Mow time goes down, food stores go up, and ecosystem thrives.
All that said, the smell of fresh cut grass and the mosquito reduction are two joys of mowing.
I found a good natural solution to kill the weeds since there are too many to hand pull.
- Christopher McCandless
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
It's just grass. His meticulously cared for lawn just looks like a lawn.
It's like a metaphor for American life, caring more for the appearance of a happy life than actually living a happy life...
I want to tell at him, USE YOUR FUCKING TIME AND ENERGY ON SOMETHING WORTHWHILE AND GROW SOME GODDAMN FOOD!