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Anybody else HATE doing yard work?

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nojj

May 20, 2013
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#1
Cutting vines that grow back at the blink of an eye,
getting lashed by sentient sticker-bushes,
awe-inspiring weeds taller that you are,
noxious stinging insects that chase you around the yard,
limb-severing shrapnel from the brush-cutters,
steep hillsides that cause one leg to grow longer than the other,
having your hands shake for 12 hours after operating lawn equipment,
finishing up only to be told by your wife that it grew back again.........

I'm thinking fondly of chemical defoliants and controlled burns.
 
#2
I don't necessarily mind doing yardwork, but with a 40 (50) -hour a week day job and a steadily gigging weekend warrior cover band, finding time to get it done can sometimes be a challenge. Weeknights after work are really my only window and if the weather doesn't cooperate or other family obligations come up I'm sometimes SOL.
 
#5
I hear ya.
She-who-must-be-obeyed doesn't get that I can't do that kinda stuff on gig nights/day.
Hands shake too badly afterwards.

I actually like doing the 'fun' stuff, building walls, moving block, building decks, trenching,
even shovel work (that's how I keep my girlish figure)

Hoping after a few well-paid gigs I can get some [DEL]gullible[/DEL] hardworking soul to cut it all for me.
 
#6
nojj said:
getting lashed by sentient sticker-bushes
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Being from western Pennsylvania, you must mean jaggerz or jagger bushes.

There is something in my yard that makes me break out in a rash and I have been scratching like mad. Plus, I got stuck by some cow itch last week too and we have sumac everywhere.
 
#12
I like doing yard work, I just like doing it when I want to. When I have to do it when I don't want to, then I don't like it. Overall, I find working in the yard to be therapeutic.

-Mike
 
#14
I used to not mind it because the results made me proud. Then I broke both ankles and a leg in a work accident, had 29 surgeries, and my pride vanished. I now use Roundup three times a year on the entire thing and kill it. Shrubs and trees I can handle, the lawn I can't. I've been struggling with guilt lately over poisoning/contaminating Earth.

My property looks like its a little closer to the sun than the rest on my block. Scorched. :cool:
 
#15
I love yard work and gardening. I dont care much for the lawn, growing grass is an excercise in futility and I find it wholly unneccessary, except for the fact that I dont own the home and have to keep it up.

Im watering the lawn every other day, and watering plants every day. Once or twice a week Im pruning some bush, putting up a fence around my fruit, hacking away at a bush we're getting rid of, or structing my blackberry vines. Always something to do, and I love it. Depending on what I feel like doing I probably spend about 30 minutes a day on average, but Ive spent as much as 3 hours completing multiple yard projects.
If I had my way though, Id dig up the grass and have a full blown farm to take care of.
 
#17
Passinwind said:
+1

Our lawn has been shrinking a bit more every year as we port over to growing more and more of our own food.
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Our landlord asked us to take care of the lawn, else it'd be gone by now. Ive already removed a good chunk by transplanting an orange tree. :p
I may have to get some more trees to plant so I can shrink the yard down some more. Watering grass is such a waste.
 

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