The Daily Peeve / Rant

[JaneV2.0]

Silver maples are qualitatively different for purposes of suburban living. Sure, that is a human centric value. We are part of the civilized human race whether we want to feel that way or not. Improving our environment with appropriate selection of mother nature‘s offerings is just common sense.


Each time you and Jane mow your lawn or weed your place you destroy tiny tree seedlings. Clear cutting on a tiny scale! Haha.

That's one of many reasons I hate yard work--it seems to be all about destruction. I grow ground cover, not grass, which minimizes the carnage, but still...

[catherine]

Silver maples are qualitatively different for purposes of suburban living. Sure, that is a human centric value. We are part of the civilized human race whether we want to feel that way or not. Improving our environment with appropriate selection of mother nature‘s offerings is just common sense.


Each time you and Jane mow your lawn or weed your place you destroy tiny tree seedlings. Clear cutting on a tiny scale! Haha.

My son is trying to decide on what to accept from a menu of services the lawn care guy gave him. I advised him on the minimum, no "weed and feed" no grub control, no broadleaf or crabgrass control. Make sure the blade is 3 inches high and do not bag the clippings. Let the neighbors hate me and my family. My son tells me the kids sometimes literally eat the grass, so I'm more concerned about them and the pollinators who will thank me for the dandelions and clover.

Site selection is very important when introducing plantings for sure.. I agree with you there. But in general both silver maples and sugar maples absorb CO2, provide shade and habitat for birds, and are so much more attractive than a parking lot aesthetic.

[iris lilies]

My son is trying to decide on what to accept from a menu of services the lawn care guy gave him. I advised him on the minimum, no "weed and feed" no grub control, no broadleaf or crabgrass control. Make sure the blade is 3 inches high and do not bag the clippings. Let the neighbors hate me and my family. My son tells me the kids sometimes literally eat the grass, so I'm more concerned about them and the pollinators who will thank me for the dandelions and clover.

Site selection is very important when introducing plantings for sure.. I agree with you there. But in general both silver maples and sugar maples absorb CO2, provide shade and habitat for birds, and are so much more attractive than a parking lot aesthetic.

keeping grass long is good for it, true. This reminds me of a small world story from years ago:

Our garden was on garden tour for our neighborhood’s annual house and garden tour. DH always kept the grass high because he was in that business. One of the men coming through our yard on the tour remarked aloud “this grass is high, that’s what my lawn guy says I should do to mine” and he looked up to see DH, his lawn guy! The tour guest was one of DH’s customers.p who lived on a big property out in the county.

DH once observed that in his company’s customer base, the lower the Socio economic status ( as judged by perceived value of their real estate) the more chemicals the customer wanted poured onto their lawn. The higher the Socio economic status of the customer, fewer chemical treatments were wanted. But when a favorite planting was diseased they were all for pouring on all treatments, spare no expense and hang environmental impact.

My neighbor up the street still has an American Elm she gets treated regularly. It survives.

[catherine]

keeping grass long is good for it, true. This reminds me of a small world story from years ago:

Our garden was on garden tour for our neighborhood’s annual house and garden tour. DH always kept the grass high because he was in that business. One of the men coming through our yard on the tour remarked aloud “this grass is high, that’s what my lawn guy says I should do to mine” and he looked up to see DH, his lawn guy! The tour guest was one of DH’s customers.p who lived on a big property out in the county.

DH once observed that in his company’s customer base, the lower the Socio economic status ( as judged by perceived value of their real estate) the more chemicals the customer wanted poured onto their lawn. The higher the Socio economic status of the customer, fewer chemical treatments were wanted. But when a favorite planting was diseased they were all for pouring on all treatments, spare no expense and hang environmental impact.

My neighbor up the street still has an American Elm she gets treated regularly. It survives.

Great story about your DH, the lawn guy!

Also nice to see an Elm survive.

ETA: another neighbor rant: My NJ neighbor across the street has spent a LOT of life energy mowing his lawn, but what drives me NUTS are the big black contractor bags of lawn clippings he throws out every week. As you implied, suburbia has its own rules that I often don't understand.

[iris lilies]

That’s a funny rent because it’s not very serious but:

Today I got notice that I restaurant around the corner has re-opened for carry out only. The owner gave a link to one of the carry out services to see their carry out menu. When I signed in to that location I got a notice that said “you are outside of the delivery area of this restaurant.”

I suppose that is literally true that no one is going to pick up my food at that restaurant and deliver to my home because I could walk around the corner myself, it was funny. It also does not bode well for the owner if she’s expecting my neighbors to buy food there. I guess I’ll just call them directly.

[iris lilies]

My feet are easy to fit, no real foot problems here. So that means any shoe is ok. I don’t scrimp on leisure shoes, I like the padding and colorful shoes that are a little bit out there for an old lady.


So that means that there’s thousands of shoes to go through on the Sketchers website. Or the Merrell website. Or now I’m looking at Nike because I guess my last pair of lace ups were Nike.

It’s the burden of too much choice. Wanh.

This reminds me, I am getting rid of Mary Jane shoes by Merrell. . I have never been able to bring myself to wear them.Funny because I do not care about fashion normally, but there is just something about them that is yuck for me. To those of you who can wear them with no bother, good for you!

[Tradd]

IL, check your messages. I LOVE Merrell MJ shoes. I’d be willing to take them off your hands if they are the correct size!

[iris lilies]

Merrill ? Shoes

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[Tradd]

Oh I was thinking of a different style

[JaneV2.0]

I have a couple of pairs of Mary Janes in fabric combinations that I don't mind; they're quite sporty. But in general, they're a bit too twee for me. I kind of like Duck Feet. https://duckfeetusa.com/ I don't have much trouble with fit, and buy all of my shoes on line at this point.