Gorgeous day out to piddle in the yard all day as planned but...
The three old men across the street all got out their dueling mowers, edgers and blowers and turned on their sprinklers. Which one is louder I wonder? Whose lawn will be more green and beauteous? This went on for two hours and the sprinklers are still going.
Lady next door got out her Roundup and squirted all her rocks and everything along the fence line. Then she used some powdery pesticides which drove me inside from the smell.
And I had just been marveling at how we were bringing this dead yard back to life since I saw ants, beetles, doodle bugs and bazillions of earthworms when I was digging.
Don't people read the news...all this lawn and chemical biz is just plain bass ackwards...killing insects for the birds, destroying wildflowers and "weeds" for the butterflies for the sake of a Stepford lawn.