For years, I've made more and more gardens, encroaching on the lawn. Here, I just don't have anything but gardens and meadow (fields). Works for me, though I have a neighbor who mows the road. Makes her happy.
listener--when I was a kid we knew some folks who had couple of sheep to mow the lawn. And Susan--if you don't have lawn, where are you going to bleach your linen?
Most of our mowing is on the village-owned parkway (area between sidewalk and street). I see more and more people using that for gardens of one sort or another, but we prefer to have out gardens on our own property.
The bigger part of the back yard is either gardens or bushes of one sort or another, not counting the 3-foot circular area we allow to go back to prairie (attracts the bees and insects Marc in isterested in). And much of the front yard is now so shady nothing really grows there.
Quiet, cool, and exceeding green and gold. I'm just trying to keep my feet up. The BP pill they gave me in the hosp is *still* causing my legs to swell. It's like dragging 10 pounds around with just your knees. Ugh. Spending too damn much time in bed (keeping them up).
The appt. the GI guys made for follow up was/is November 3. Guess they're not seeing a crisis.
Alan - oh, I'll have lawn all right. The city won't give me a choice. We're not even allowed to dry clothes outside because it might ruin "the look of the neighborhood".
listener, I wouldn't mind goats except for what they leave behind, their vet bills and worrying about loose dogs getting at them. Oh, and the neighbors would no doubt complain about the smell. There is much work left undone outside. Can't be helped. My brother and son are physically unable to do it and I'm just one fat little old grannie. I do what I can, but continually feel I'm failing/falling short in one area or another.
In Oak Park, it's not uncommon for much more of the area in front of people's homes to be flower garden than lawn. Of course, flower gardens take about as much work as lawns. Maybe more. But it can be more rewarding.
Well, if they don't like goats you can get pigs and when they freak about the pigs you can offer to go back to goats. ;-)
I'm just kidding, but there was a precedent for that in highbrow Stowe, Vermont, where someone bought land and when the town declined their building plan they farmed pigs out of spite!
Maybe you could barter a Summer's worth of mowing for a nice quilt?
I do not like the sound of this. Whether or not your docs are seeing a concern, if you are it counts! Can't your attending physician give you something else for your BP? Surely s/he wouldn't want you swollen and having to put your feet up so much!? Do complain all you need to. Be a nice stone in your doc's shoe.
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ReplyDeleteSo are alternative ways to keep one's grass mowed. ;-)
So are alternatives to grass, lol!
ReplyDeleteFor years, I've made more and more gardens, encroaching on the lawn. Here, I just don't have anything but gardens and meadow (fields). Works for me, though I have a neighbor who mows the road. Makes her happy.
listener--when I was a kid we knew some folks who had couple of sheep to mow the lawn. And Susan--if you don't have lawn, where are you going to bleach your linen?
ReplyDeleteAll be well...
Most of our mowing is on the village-owned parkway (area between sidewalk and street). I see more and more people using that for gardens of one sort or another, but we prefer to have out gardens on our own property.
ReplyDeleteThe bigger part of the back yard is either gardens or bushes of one sort or another, not counting the 3-foot circular area we allow to go back to prairie (attracts the bees and insects Marc in isterested in). And much of the front yard is now so shady nothing really grows there.
Quiet, cool, and exceeding green and gold. I'm just trying to keep my feet up. The BP pill they gave me in the hosp is *still* causing my legs to swell. It's like dragging 10 pounds around with just your knees. Ugh. Spending too damn much time in bed (keeping them up).
ReplyDeleteThe appt. the GI guys made for follow up was/is November 3. Guess they're not seeing a crisis.
Alan - oh, I'll have lawn all right. The city won't give me a choice. We're not even allowed to dry clothes outside because it might ruin "the look of the neighborhood".
ReplyDeletelistener, I wouldn't mind goats except for what they leave behind, their vet bills and worrying about loose dogs getting at them. Oh, and the neighbors would no doubt complain about the smell. There is much work left undone outside. Can't be helped. My brother and son are physically unable to do it and I'm just one fat little old grannie. I do what I can, but continually feel I'm failing/falling short in one area or another.
In Oak Park, it's not uncommon for much more of the area in front of people's homes to be flower garden than lawn. Of course, flower gardens take about as much work as lawns. Maybe more. But it can be more rewarding.
ReplyDeleteWell, if they don't like goats you can get pigs and when they freak about the pigs you can offer to go back to goats. ;-)
ReplyDeleteI'm just kidding, but there was a precedent for that in highbrow Stowe, Vermont, where someone bought land and when the town declined their building plan they farmed pigs out of spite!
Maybe you could barter a Summer's worth of mowing for a nice quilt?
Yep, sheep make good mowers. :-)
ReplyDeleteI do not like the sound of this. Whether or not your docs are seeing a concern, if you are it counts! Can't your attending physician give you something else for your BP? Surely s/he wouldn't want you swollen and having to put your feet up so much!? Do complain all you need to. Be a nice stone in your doc's shoe.
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