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Let's see this happen in a HOA.

SunnyD

SunnyD

Belgian Waffler
My next door neighbors haven't mowed their law at all this season so far. The grass and dandelions are probably about a foot and a half tall. The nice thing is - I don't give a crap.

Rural America FTW!
 
it's a good thing they live in BFE. a lot of times, city ordinances cover similar things to what would be enforced by HOAs.
"owning" property doesn't always give you free reign 😉
 
There's Bayou here, and on it's banks/sides grass once grew lush and tall. I could see prarie dogs and wild rabbits hiding in it as I blew past on my bike.

Now they cut it ALL down! Will someone please think about wildlife? Ugh.
 
Originally posted by: SunnyD
My next door neighbors haven't mowed their law at all this season so far. The grass and dandelions are probably about a foot and a half tall. The nice thing is - I don't give a crap.

Rural America FTW!
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boy, they must have some thick bush now eh? Must be a hairy situation for the neighbors?

 
Originally posted by: SunnyD
My next door neighbors haven't mowed their law at all this season so far. There should be a lawn against people who don't mow their law.
The grass and dandelions are probably about a foot and a half tall. The nice thing is - I don't give a crap. And if you did, no one could see you.

Rural America FTW!
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I recall the one thread about someone's HOA complaining about there being five or ten dandelions in the lawn.

Back home, the lawn changed colors throughout the year. Purple when the violets came up, white when the clovers bloomed, and yellow most of the rest of the year from the dandelions. Yes, it did get mowed every week or two, depending on how much it rained. We were certainly not fanatical about keeping it looking absolutely pristine. If that was the goal, the yard would've been paved and covered with artificial turf. We just let nature do its thing.


With all the flowers though, I really got to see the dropoff in the honeybee population. When I was much younger, honeybees and bumblebees were just about everywhere, lazily going from flower to flower, calm enough that you could actually touch their backs and most wouldn't care. Shortly before I moved out, I might have seen one or two honeybees in a week.


 
Originally posted by: Jeff7
I recall the one thread about someone's HOA complaining about there being five or ten dandelions in the lawn.

Back home, the lawn changed colors throughout the year. Purple when the violets came up, white when the clovers bloomed, and yellow most of the rest of the year from the dandelions. Yes, it did get mowed every week or two, depending on how much it rained. We were certainly not fanatical about keeping it looking absolutely pristine. If that was the goal, the yard would've been paved and covered with artificial turf. We just let nature do its thing.


With all the flowers though, I really got to see the dropoff in the honeybee population. When I was much younger, honeybees and bumblebees were just about everywhere, lazily going from flower to flower, calm enough that you could actually touch their backs and most wouldn't care. Shortly before I moved out, I might have seen one or two honeybees in a week.
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The honeybee problem didn't reach Alaska, at least according to the beekeepers I talked to. One of those cases where being isolated from the rest of the country is actually a good thing. I am thinking of setting up a hive next Summer.
 
Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
The honeybee problem didn't reach Alaska, at least according to the beekeepers I talked to. One of those cases where being isolated from the rest of the country is actually a good thing. I am thinking of setting up a hive next Summer.
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And then start selling them back to the mainland for an inflated price. 😀

 
Originally posted by: SunnyD
My next door neighbors haven't mowed their law at all this season so far. The grass and dandelions are probably about a foot and a half tall. The nice thing is - I don't give a crap.

Rural America FTW!
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On my block, last summer, there was a house whose inhabitants didn't mow their lawn either. The grass got to be about two or three feet tall, and someone finally got fed up with it and spray painted "MOW YOUR FUCKING LAWN" and "MOW IT" on their garage door and the wall by the door.

Let's just say... they keep their lawn mowed now.

Ghetto neighborhood FTW!
 
Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
The honeybee problem didn't reach Alaska, at least according to the beekeepers I talked to. One of those cases where being isolated from the rest of the country is actually a good thing. I am thinking of setting up a hive next Summer.
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yes! in 10 years you will have all of the remaining honey in the world!
you can export the excess and get rich while restoring the value of the american dollar 😉
 
Originally posted by: SunnyD
My next door neighbors haven't mowed their law at all this season so far. The grass and dandelions are probably about a foot and a half tall. The nice thing is - I don't give a crap.

Rural America FTW!
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:thumbsup:

I LOVE the vacuous hypocrisy of all the "manly rugged individualists" here clutching their guns in cold-dead-hand penis envy and calling others socialists and nanny state liberals while they fucking live with an HOA!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! :laugh:



 
Originally posted by: Perknose

:thumbsup:

I LOVE the vacuous hypocrisy of all the "manly rugged individualists" here clutching their guns in cold-dead-hand penis envy and calling others socialists and nanny state liberals while they fucking live with an HOA!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! :laugh:
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I would NEVER live in a HOA...

But... a HOA is a little different than socialism and nanny state"ism"
MOST people agreed to the HOA when they bought their house.... so they brought it upon themselves....

It's not something being forced upon them by the government....it's a private entity and a private contract....

 
Your neighbors are trend-setters. With global warming, the price of gasoline, greenhouse emissions, air quality concerns, etc., it's only a matter of time until lawn mowing is outlawed.

Many states have water restrictions in place. Not mowing is just a natural extension of that.

Mowing one's lawn is a relatively recent aspiration. It's not necessary.
 
Originally posted by: Jeff7
I recall the one thread about someone's HOA complaining about there being five or ten dandelions in the lawn.

Back home, the lawn changed colors throughout the year. Purple when the violets came up, white when the clovers bloomed, and yellow most of the rest of the year from the dandelions. Yes, it did get mowed every week or two, depending on how much it rained. We were certainly not fanatical about keeping it looking absolutely pristine. If that was the goal, the yard would've been paved and covered with artificial turf. We just let nature do its thing.


With all the flowers though, I really got to see the dropoff in the honeybee population. When I was much younger, honeybees and bumblebees were just about everywhere, lazily going from flower to flower, calm enough that you could actually touch their backs and most wouldn't care. Shortly before I moved out, I might have seen one or two honeybees in a week.
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Yeah, my parent's lawn was like that too. I remember being at a block picnic and someone asked my dad why he didn't keep his lawn as nice as others...his response: "I'm raising children, not grass." Now that all of us kids are out of the house his lawn & garden is pretty damn nice. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Perknose
Originally posted by: SunnyD
My next door neighbors haven't mowed their law at all this season so far. The grass and dandelions are probably about a foot and a half tall. The nice thing is - I don't give a crap.

Rural America FTW!
Click to expand...

:thumbsup:

I LOVE the vacuous hypocrisy of all the "manly rugged individualists" here clutching their guns in cold-dead-hand penis envy and calling others socialists and nanny state liberals while they fucking live with an HOA!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! :laugh:
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time to up someone's meds.
 
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