re: #193 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste

Lots of salad…

My mother *weeded* the yard of dandelions by hand for years. Years. I think it was a combination of neurosis and personal exercise program.

I had a neighbor who hebicided his yard for everything, and then yapped at me for not treating/killing my dandelion crop. So I mowed for his benefit later that day*. And I’m not sure what (if anything) he said to any other neighbor within 50 yards who had dandelions blooming as well.

*- I knew fully well that mowing wasn’t going to affect things. You chop off the blooming or recently pollinated flower and it will go to seed anyways.

My neighborhood, in general, is obsessive about their own yards, but thankfully, no one’s said a word to me about mine. It’s more of a personal preference thing, as I don’t like dandelions and my wife wants me to spray down the thistles that have taken root alongside the dandelions and other assorted broadleaf weeds. I did have a neighbor who would make a point of chewing me out if I let my yard get even a micron longer than what she liked. So, of course, I let it grow pretty much the entire summer. I think I mowed that yard maybe twice that year.