Put That Lawn Mower Back, You Murderer, You

[12oclocktales]

Some people have all the luck. I’m thinking especially about those who live in a town where it’s become illegal to mow your lawn during the month of May. I’d love to be one of those lucky stiffs sitting on the porch with his feet up drinking coffee watching the lawn approach the second-storey windows. If anybody complains I can flip them the bird and call them a bunch of anti-Nature fascists. It seems that zillions of bugs just love all that May grass after a tough winter buried under sleet and snow, at least those who can’t afford the escape to Florida. So if we all just relax and take May off, leave the damn lawn alone, the bugs will thrive, especially the pollinizers like bees. (I wonder if, in addition, that incudes mosquitoes and deer ticks?) But no such luck in this always-one-step-behind, hey-did-anyone-see-where-we-put-the-DDT town I live in. And May’s a great month to do this, for human reasons, too, because as you all know grass grows about a foot a day in May and you’re usually out there 3 times a week busting your ass mowing it instead of just once a week come July. So not having to do it in May is great for us less-than-ambitious types. Now if someone will just show how used tires, old refrigerators, and broken down Fords scattered around the yard are also tremendous boons to propagating nature, I’d be the happiest camper in all of Hickville here.

 

[ll74]

Oh.,it's a urguy alt.

Neat.

 

[KeithD]

Some people have all the luck. I’m thinking especially about those who live in a town where it’s become illegal to mow your lawn during the month of May.

You'd have to cite a reliable source on this premise before I'd read any more of your nonsense on this.

 

[12oclocktales]

You'd have to cite a reliable source on this premise before I'd read any more of your nonsense on this.

Easy. Wall Street Journal, April 29-30 Weekend edition (this weekend, came out today). Apparently big in England, also towns in several states mentioned: Wisconsin, Arkansas, NY.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

It’s called “No Mow May.” Allegedly intended to increase bee pollination activity but also a great excuse to just not mow the lawn for a month.

 

[KeithD]

Sorry, I've lost interest in your issue. Although I don't really have grass--I have foliage, stone and brickwork, and moss, I do have to mow about three times a year. If I want to do it in May, I'll do it in May. It's not something I'd bring up on a porn discussion board.

 

[12oclocktales]

Sorry, I've lost interest in your issue. Although I don't really have grass--I have foliage, stone and brickwork, and moss, I do have to mow about three times a year. If I want to do it in May, I'll do it in May. It's not something I'd bring up on a porn discussion board.

And here I thought it was a politics and social issues forum. How silly of me.

 

[KeithD]

Well, it certainly is whiny enough. It's the board Trumpettes in the current world who seem to want to control what everyone's allowed to do or not do. Right at the moment they're leaning heavily on folks not having the right to live at all in several spectrums. Lawnmowing doesn't seem to be a "biggie" in that mix.

 

[phrodeau]

And here I thought it was a politics and social issues forum. How silly of me.

If you want to mow, apply for an exemption. I’m sure that the local golf course has one, for example.
You couldn’t be overly concerned about the opprobium of your neighbors, or you would have dealt with the used tires, old refrigerators, and broken down Fords in your yard.

 

[Rob_Royale]

My lawn crew at work.

 

[KeithD]

Yet YOU cite nothing to demonstrate that is is nonsense.

That's because the technique of the board Trumpettes, as you are trying to do, is to lure other posters into endless exchanges of nonsense.

I have no grass at any of the three houses I own. Over 100 azaleas on the lot where I'm currently living, lots of tree coverage, flowering groundcover, brick, flagstone, and moss. Bees love it here.

Go suck on someone else.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I haven't mowed my lawn yet this year. I currently has a few inches of snow on it.

 

[TrailerHitch]

Mowed 3 times already but have let over an acre of my yard go back to wild. The number of bees and butterflies out there is insane. They love the wildflowers and clover.