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Septic Tank service every couple of years and a tree specialist prunes back my big old growth trees ...I have a broadleaf maple with a 4' wide trunk that is a beast to climb and limb up...my redwood is the same...next year I plan to hire a chimney sweep for my stove pipe maintenance.....I've always done it myself but I have a steep pitched roof and I think it's time for me to stay off it.....also have the roof de-mossed every couple years....I do my own garbage runs and it takes a long time to fill 4 cans....I don't put food scraps, etc in the trash...that all gets composted. 10 bucks to empty 4 cans 4 times a year opposed to 12 bucks a month for one can dumped weekly....the transfer station is half a mile down the mountain so....I take care of that myself ..lawn mowing I love...it's an excercise machine....break a sweat quickly ...I use a honda mower with a rear wheel drive....push mower....had a riding mower I gave away..it was always breaking and like driving a car around the yard...nah...those are for mowing big fields....I only mow about an acre of grass total...back acre is all old growth with ferns...I'm about to give up splitting wood with a maul by hand....going to buy an electric wood splitter and save my bones the trouble
 
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Last time I had a lawn was sometime in the early 80's, maybe? Don't know why anyone has them, unless you are heavily into croquet.

barfo
 
barfo said:
Last time I had a lawn was sometime in the early 80's, maybe? Don't know why anyone has them, unless you are heavily into croquet.

barfo
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basements don't usually have lawns...but grass clippings are great nitrogen for the garden....think of it as harvesting the lawn...
 
bigbailes said:
I'm about to hand over our lawn care to a professional. In just over two years in our home in South Texas and we've effectively murdered half our back yard. The front does ok but our back yard gets all the afternoon/evening sun, that plus soil that seems to have a lot of clay in it, has made for a difficult chore of keeping the yard green and healthy.
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More fertilizer, a lawn wastes water unless it has enough fertilizer.
 
Hoopguru said:
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Does Lake O
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I've clicked and never got the full size version.
 
donkiez said:
I hate yard work and I get terrible allergies in the spring when the yard needs it the most. I just had a major landscaping project competed last week. The idea was to make things low to no maintainence and add some privacy. We did pavers on a big portion of the yard and replace the grass with artifical grass for the dogs. The dogs seem to like it a lot and its a lot easier to keep clean, I do have to hose it off to get the pee smell out if I plan on hanging out, but compared to before its no problem. I do have a little patch of grass still in the front that I mow. Years ago I got an Ego electric mower from Home Depot, the battery packs swap with their other lawn equipment. No gas needed ever again, no oil and they run a lot quieter than a gas model. If you go this route buy a few extra batteries so you can swap them out on the go and not wait to recharge.
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I have battery leaf blowers and trimmers and bought them in sets because they were discounted. A dual leaf blower is an adventure is everything you dream of. IMG_2703.JPG> I would rather do this.
 
Lanny said:
We have yard service which is excellent.
I researched house cleaning service casually but my wife doesn't want to pay although we have the money to do it. I'm always trying to get her to change her mind but she's a tough nut to crack. If anyone knows a good deal with a highly reputable company because we have valuables, I'd sure like to know.
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Can't do it. I'm from sunny wonderful NJ.
 
HailBlazers said:
Get my mail delivered.
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No one rings our door bell any more. Not the mail man when he leaves a package at my front door. The Fed Ex guy fails to ring our door bell and even when the UPS driver delivers insulin to my front door he doesn't ring the door bell. We seldom use the front door since my wheel chair is in the garage and my wife doesn't go outside unless she's taking the car out somewhere. Sometimes we don't see our front door for days.
 
Light bulb in grow light died. At least I hope it's just the bulb. Ordered new one but for a few days have to carry three flats of seedlings outside in AM and back in at night.
 
barfo said:
Last time I had a lawn was sometime in the early 80's, maybe? Don't know why anyone has them, unless you are heavily into croquet.

barfo
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Parks shouldnt have lawns?
 
barfo said:
Last time I had a lawn was sometime in the early 80's, maybe? Don't know why anyone has them, unless you are heavily into croquet.

barfo
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You are trampling on the song the green green grass of home, you know that don't you.
 
Lanny said:
You are trampling on the song the green green grass of home, you know that don't you.
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Not at all, Tom Jones didn't have a lawn either:

Down the lane, I walk with my sweet Mary
Hair of gold and lips like cherries
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home

Then I awake and look around me
At four grey walls that surround me
And I realize, yes, I was only dreaming
For there's a guard and there's a sad, old padre

barfo
 
barfo said:
Parks should have lawns, for croquet. Other uses forbidden.

barfo
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Croquet? and you call yourself a pirate? Whats wrong with tackle football, frisbee, Hackey Sack or love Ins or Concerts on the lawn! Croquet sounds to aristocratic for a scalawag!
 
Hoopguru said:
Croquet? and you call yourself a pirate? Whats wrong with tackle football, frisbee, Hackey Sack or love Ins or Concerts on the lawn! Croquet sounds to aristocratic for a scalawag!
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Pirates aspire to high society too, you know. Our fearsome appearance masks our need for acceptance, but be not fooled, we are sensitive creatures.

barfo

P.S. not really, all we want is to lop your head off and feed it to the fishes.
 
barfo said:
Pirates aspire to high society too, you know. Our fearsome appearance masks our need for acceptance, but be not fooled, we are sensitive creatures.

barfo

P.S. not really, all we want is to lop your head off and feed it to the fishes.
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That a boy!
 
barfo said:
Not at all, Tom Jones didn't have a lawn either:

Down the lane, I walk with my sweet Mary
Hair of gold and lips like cherries
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home

Then I awake and look around me
At four grey walls that surround me
And I realize, yes, I was only dreaming
For there's a guard and there's a sad, old padre

barfo
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Three things:
1. When I heard that song in Vietnam over and over and over again it brought tears to my eyes longing for the good ol' USA;
2. Nothing makes a BBQ better than the smell of fresh cut grass;
3. How am I going to get my fishing worms without a lawn to pour soapy water on? It brings a ton of worms to the surface.
 
As a kid I remember my best friend and his dad (avid fishermen both) would go out at night, water their lawn, insert two metal rods into the ground and then hook them up to an old car battery. You’ve never seen worms moves so fast. They’d just come boiling up from the ground. My friends dad just couldn’t see buying worms at a bait shop when the ground was chock a block full of them.......
 
My compost bin is full of worms. Help yourself.
 
We have a housekeeper twice a month; makes my wife's life much easier.

I do the fun gardening stuff - planting, playing with my roses, etc. - but the big stuff like fall leaf cleanup, we hire a gardener.

I am also completely inept at fixing things, so although I can write a book, I was literally unable to figure out that our tub was stopped up because the drain plug was in. :breakdance:

So yes, I have to hire a handyman far too often.
 
This is funny. Back in the mid 70's I worked with a guy that had retired from the Army moved to Oregon with his new Japanese wife. He was a big time gardener and yard freak, so he called the zoo and ask if he could get some elephant shit for fertilizer and they said sure and they would even deliver whatever amount he wanted. He made arrangements to have a couple yards delivered for Saturday so he could be home. Well on Thursday, he gets a call at work from a neighbor saying you better get your ass home right away as the Zoo came and dumped a whole dump truck of elephant crap in your driveway and street and the whole neighborhood is pissed. His neighbor told him his wife wouldnt talk to anyone about it or call him as it was Don's responsibility not hers. She had here own responsibilities. He ended up hiring a company to come get it, except for what he was to use. His wife packed his lunch everyday and he never knew what was to eat, she also ironed his work close every morning
and bathed his back for him in the evening. She once left the car in the street when it wouldn't restart, just left it there and didn't call him he got a call from the police.
She had her duties and he had his. I never laughed so hard in my life when he told us about elephant crap.
 
Hoopguru said:
This is funny. Back in the mid 70's I worked with a guy that had retired from the Army moved to Oregon with his new Japanese wife. He was a big time gardener and yard freak, so he called the zoo and ask if he could get some elephant shit for fertilizer and they said sure and they would even deliver whatever amount he wanted. He made arrangements to have a couple yards delivered for Saturday so he could be home. Well on Thursday, he gets a call at work from a neighbor saying you better get your ass home right away as the Zoo came and dumped a whole dump truck of elephant crap in your driveway and street and the whole neighborhood is pissed. His neighbor told him his wife wouldnt talk to anyone about it or call him as it was Don's responsibility not hers. She had here own responsibilities. He ended up hiring a company to come get it, except for what he was to use. His wife packed his lunch everyday and he never knew what was to eat, she also ironed his work close every morning
and bathed his back for him in the evening. She once left the car in the street when it wouldn't restart, just left it there and didn't call him he got a call from the police.
She had her duties and he had his. I never laughed so hard in my life when he told us about elephant crap.
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Last I heard which must be at least two decades ago, the zoo was selling their animal dung for fertilizer.
 
Stevenson said:
We have a housekeeper twice a month; makes my wife's life much easier.

I do the fun gardening stuff - planting, playing with my roses, etc. - but the big stuff like fall leaf cleanup, we hire a gardener.

I am also completely inept at fixing things, so although I can write a book, I was literally unable to figure out that our tub was stopped up because the drain plug was in. :breakdance:

So yes, I have to hire a handyman far too often.
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Holy shit, but yeah, that's inept. But what can I say? One time in college I spent half an hour looking for my glasses after i showered and found them rotated such that the lenses were on top of my head.
Come on guys, what stupid things have you done, and Sly, tell us something different than lighting your farts during heavy drinking parties. I mean, who among us hasn't done that?
 
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