A lawnmower named Duke
After a suitably sweaty morning, assaulting the really sturdy weeds that are 100% of the greenage of our courtyard – I headed out for a stroll with our dogs along the fenceline. Which is where I saw that my neighbor was taking care of the same task on his front “lawn”.
We all have a built-in excuse – conserving water – for an absolutely unplanned xeriscape. And my neighbor just brings one or more horses up from his corral to tidy up.
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It looks beautiful there Eideard. I believe you mentioned it’s New Mexico, or am I mistaken?
I like the idea of indigenous plant life for a front lawn.
Saw somewhere that 30 to 50% of household water use is for watering the lawn. Almost 80 gal/watering.
I live in Chicago now; no front or back lawn. When I move to the suburbs I plan on indigenous plant life, a rockscape, or something I saw recently, a vegetable garden.
Again, just beautify there. One thing I don’t like about where I live Chicago is not beautiful.
Scott
Not only mowed but fertilized too!
That comma is driving me nuts.
rasco – a few miles outside Santa Fe. As we say around here, “I live in the county!”
I use a trio of geese to mow my lawn. In a very lush and wet southwest of England three geese will keep an acre of lawn nicely mown and fertilised…. and their offspring make for a tasty Christmas treat!
Where I fish on my friends ranch in the Hill Country, the cows keep the yards mowed. Now if could just jeep the cows out of the lake when I want to fish…
BubbaRay:
Maybe what you need is a very large hook and a very strong rod then you could go cow fishing in the lake…. 😛
-Ben.
Get a couple sheep…
#7, Ben, now that would be one heck of a catch, but I’d probably hook the bull — I’m droppin’ the rod!! 🙂
#5
Don’t know what kind of geese you have but here in the pacific northwest avoiding ping pong ball size pieces of goose shit doesn’t make for fun lawn care. (Canada Geese go around 11- 12 pounds have been as big as 16-18). I mow mine with a big ass riding lawn mower, every 3 goddamn days, otherwise it’s a foot tall in 2 weeks. Gotta love the pacific northwest. Been raining at night and sun all day lately. Perfect growing weather.
The geese I have are called “West of England” and look more or less like any standard domestic geese (see a picture here: http://www.domestic-waterfowl.co.uk/images/westofeng/west1.jpg).
I grew up in the pacific northwest (Vancouver to be exact) and I’d say the southwest of England and pacific northwest have about the same climate. I can see what you’d have a big-ass ride on mower.
The geese shit is roughly the size of a small dog’s poo, and does picking up daily, if you grow vegetables its great stuff (if you don’t, then its probably just a pain in the arse….)
0. Eideard. One more bucolic photo like that and I swear I’m going to post a photo of me in polyester shirt, gold chains and ’91 Corvette to show you what living is really all about.
RBG