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Re: Lots of people don't mow their own yards anymore
Posted: Wed August 24, 2022 7:49 pm
by JuanHamm
Mowed mine today as well.
I have an electric mower because I don't want to be inhaling fumes the whole time, but the battery is barely big enough to cover my whole yard and sometimes I have to leave my lawn with a mohawk over night.
Re: Lots of people don't mow their own yards anymore
Posted: Wed August 24, 2022 7:50 pm
by tree_
JuanHamm wrote:Mowed mine today as well.
I have an electric mower because I don't want to be inhaling fumes the whole time, but the battery is barely big enough to cover my whole yard and sometimes I have to leave my lawn with a mohawk over night.
what kind of gel do you use?
Re: Lots of people don't mow their own yards anymore
Posted: Wed August 24, 2022 7:52 pm
by JuanHamm
tree_ wrote:JuanHamm wrote:Mowed mine today as well.
I have an electric mower because I don't want to be inhaling fumes the whole time, but the battery is barely big enough to cover my whole yard and sometimes I have to leave my lawn with a mohawk over night.
what kind of gel do you use?
I don't want to say because it's kinda gross. Let's just say it's a tribute to There's something about Mary.
Re: Lots of people don't mow their own yards anymore
Posted: Wed August 24, 2022 9:06 pm
by washing machine
Might be time to brave the fumes of the gas mower, tommy. Or else a voltage upgrade.
Re: Lots of people don't mow their own yards anymore
Posted: Wed August 24, 2022 9:20 pm
by JuanHamm
I could buy a second battery, but they're mighty expensive.
Re: Lots of people don't mow their own yards anymore
Posted: Wed August 24, 2022 10:41 pm
by bodysnatcher
Just burn your house down and use the insurance money for a townhome without a yard
Re: Lots of people don't mow their own yards anymore
Posted: Wed August 24, 2022 10:46 pm
by dad
bodysnatcher wrote:Just burn your house down and use the insurance money for a townhome without a yard
a solid option if you can pull it off.
there's also xeriscaping.
Re: Lots of people don't mow their own yards anymore
Posted: Wed August 24, 2022 11:01 pm
by JuanHamm
dad wrote:bodysnatcher wrote:Just burn your house down and use the insurance money for a townhome without a yard
a solid option if you can pull it off.
there's also xeriscaping.
Did you just make that word up?
Re: Lots of people don't mow their own yards anymore
Posted: Wed August 24, 2022 11:02 pm
by dad
JuanHamm wrote:dad wrote:bodysnatcher wrote:Just burn your house down and use the insurance money for a townhome without a yard
a solid option if you can pull it off.
there's also xeriscaping.
Did you just make that word up?
no, option is a common word.
Re: Lots of people don't mow their own yards anymore
Posted: Wed August 24, 2022 11:34 pm
by bodysnatcher
dad’s yard naturally xeriscaped itself this summer
Re: Lots of people don't mow their own yards anymore
Posted: Thu August 25, 2022 12:20 am
by dad
bodysnatcher wrote:dad’s yard naturally xeriscaped itself this summer
yes, i am very upset about my lawn dying. i had about a week where i watered twice a day every other day, but i felt that was too wasteful.
there are only scattered patches of lush green to mow. it's so disappointing.
Re: Lots of people don't mow their own yards anymore
Posted: Thu August 25, 2022 12:34 am
by bodysnatcher
dad wrote:bodysnatcher wrote:dad’s yard naturally xeriscaped itself this summer
yes, i am very upset about my lawn dying. i had about a week where i watered twice a day every other day, but i felt that was too wasteful.
there are only scattered patches of lush green to mow. it's so disappointing.
My yard to let my lawn go dormant in the summer. It looked dead, but once the rain and autumn rolled back around it was greener than pickle.
Re: Lots of people don't mow their own yards anymore
Posted: Thu August 25, 2022 1:41 am
by spike
JuanHamm wrote:Mowed mine today as well.
I have an electric mower because I don't want to be inhaling fumes the whole time, but the battery is barely big enough to cover my whole yard and sometimes I have to leave my lawn with a mohawk over night.
Do you leave it plugged in all the time? Some batts, you’re not supposed to.
Re: Lots of people don't mow their own yards anymore
Posted: Thu August 25, 2022 2:21 am
by 96583UP
mowing sucks
watering is pleasant tho
Re: Lots of people don't mow their own yards anymore
Posted: Thu August 25, 2022 2:57 am
by spike
mowing's great if you have a riding mower
Re: Lots of people don't mow their own yards anymore
Posted: Thu August 25, 2022 3:03 am
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.
There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.
There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.
There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.
O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.
Re: Lots of people don't mow their own yards anymore
Posted: Thu August 25, 2022 3:20 am
by bodysnatcher
I’m identifying as a xerisexual
Re: Lots of people don't mow their own yards anymore
Posted: Thu August 25, 2022 3:33 am
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.
There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.
There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.
There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.
O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.
Re: Lots of people don't mow their own yards anymore
Posted: Thu August 25, 2022 3:48 am
by washing machine
spike wrote:mowing's great if you have a riding mower
I could never mow with you. What a boring take.
Re: Lots of people don't mow their own yards anymore
Posted: Thu August 25, 2022 3:54 am
by spike
washing machine wrote:spike wrote:mowing's great if you have a riding mower
I could never mow with you. What a boring take.
i'd end up doing 80% of it minimum