Honestly, around here, we shouldn't have a lawn at all. But we've got a postage-stamp of grassy space for the kids to play on, anyways. Before they were toddling, we had a wildflower meadow, and when they're grown we'll likely go back to that sort of xeriscaping. But for now?
We've got a push mower, too. We also have my grandfather's 1984 electric plug-in mower, but the only time we use that is when our next-door neighbor (who is 85 years old) sometimes doesn't get his own mowing done for several weeks in the springtime, and he gets a fix-it ticket from the neighborhood preservation police. Then we go over with the higher power of the electric and chop down his knee-deep jungle lawn.
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Date: 2006-04-20 05:04 am (UTC)Honestly, around here, we shouldn't have a lawn at all. But we've got a postage-stamp of grassy space for the kids to play on, anyways. Before they were toddling, we had a wildflower meadow, and when they're grown we'll likely go back to that sort of xeriscaping. But for now?
We've got a push mower, too. We also have my grandfather's 1984 electric plug-in mower, but the only time we use that is when our next-door neighbor (who is 85 years old) sometimes doesn't get his own mowing done for several weeks in the springtime, and he gets a fix-it ticket from the neighborhood preservation police. Then we go over with the higher power of the electric and chop down his knee-deep
junglelawn.Yay appropriate technology.