posted 3 hours ago
It's that time of year again!
Riding mowers take over the neighbor hood and can't stop mowing.
We have not figured out how to keep them off of all of our land since we moved to town.
Most is fenced and that solved most of the issue.
Outside the fence we let it get a little long and bag it for the garden and sometimes let it get pasture tall and scythe for the garden...all ok'd by the city whos right of way it is.
The 4' fence manages to keep out riding mowers but outside the fence there's always someone new in the neighborhood who thinks they are doing us a favor by scalping that nasty green stuff.
The upside is that when we go out and ask them to stop they then have to listen to our long list of reasons why we do it our way....and it works with that person until someone else new shows up.
I think it's partly because we are 'older' and these young out of shape riders can't imagine someone wanting to walk behind a mower or use hand tools.
anyway it just happened again...lunch interrupted by the helicopter sound of a mower cutting up to our fence....he might have learned some new words...not 'those' words...we were very polite and talked about organics, and permaculture and mulch and soil building and our electric mower and scything...local inputs, etc.
was feeling kinda grumpy...better now...thus the edit.
(and I took out the other emoji R.)
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
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