people who don't rake their [expletive] yards

[Fat_Bulldog]

rant

people who don't rake their [expletive] yards

Can't stand people who use leaf blowers for on their [expletive] yards. Taking care of my sick kid home today, and we get to hear a [expletive] leaf blower. [expletive] you leaf blowers. A noise that loud should be reserved for essential events - house demolition, concerts, good parties, sporting events, pile driving, jackhammering and road construction, and perhaps sex -but NOT NOT NOT for something so petty as getting leaves out of your #@$uckin yard.

It would only take you 10 minutes longer to rake those [expletive] leaves you lazy ares.
$%%$^!noise pollution

Thank you.

I love my leaf blower and then mow and bag them. So you get to hear my leaf blower and my mower.

call me when your next hangover occurs, and I'll flip on your leaf blower on for you.

don't 10-14 year old kids rake leaves anymore?

I'm always hungover. So, really, any time is fine.

[docellis]

I kinda wish omaha lived next door to me. He would hate my guts.

[clement]

The whole lawn culture borders on the absurd. What happened to our souls that has made a majority of us think that this is actually an attractive homestead?

[MrCrowesGarden]

I don't see what's wrong with it.

[clement]

I should preface it by saying that my contribution to this rant was not a response to omaha's original rant, but just something that his rant made me think about ranting about. I would be aggravated too if a bunch of leaves from other people's trees were all blowing into my yard if I was going to the trouble of raking my leaves. (NO leaf blowers please!)

I don't see what's wrong with it.

It's completely unnatural (I'm talking about the yard). Grass doesn't grow like that, and you have to run sprinklers to maintain it. It's environmentally unsustainable and it looks sterile. If people want nature, go to the woods or to the country and see how rustic and imperfect it is. To me that is beauty.

[MrCrowesGarden]

OK.

[Freed Roger]

The whole lawn culture borders on the absurd. What happened to our souls that has made a majority of us think that this is actually an attractive homestead?

ha ha. your right. the town i grew up in people mostly didn't landscape, trim the hedges once in a blew moon. no lawn services were making the rounds in those days -other than young lads out for a few bucks. if leaves got raked at all, then they'd be burned. , people cut grass and that was about it. maybe people would water flowers, but why the hell would you want to water grass, when you'd just have to cut it more? the notion of landscaping meant tomato plants, lawn deer or crystal gazing balls. Yes, a few Madonna for some.

So when I moved to St. Louis as a young man, I saw all these guys out primping around in the yard- I never dreamed I'd follow suit. "if I have that much time on my hands, its time for me to kick the bucket." .... I'm not a lawn guru, and my house/lawn is nothing like the picture, but i'm still sort of embarrassed out there watering and spending all that time on our little yard.

[Cronos]

The whole lawn culture borders on the absurd. What happened to our souls that has made a majority of us think that this is actually an attractive homestead?

Edit: Sorry Clem, didn't see your response to MCG from before.

I think it looks nice, a little boring but okay. My parents' lawn never looked that good most of the time because we didn't have sprinklers, anyway.

[MrCrowesGarden]

I understand it's not for everyone...how it borders on the absurd, I'm not sure.

[docellis]

There is a really cool house in Ladue at the corner of Conway and Warson that really perfects the rustic, nature look. The yard is never raked, the bushes and shrubs grow however they naturally would grow and I think it's perfect.