If I don't have it mowed soon the neighbors are going to get pissy. But we've had wildflowers come up and we've got so many bees visiting the flowers. I don't want to mow them down. We need to be helping bees thrive.
Depending on where you live, the Slave Patrollers may pay you a visit and give you a hefty ticket or they might shoot you if you give them any lip.
[b][i]City officials in Texas went to cut a man’s overgrown lawn. He was later killed in a standoff with police.[/i][/b] https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/29/overgrown-lawn-police-shooting/
[b][i]Man arrested for shooting at police, code compliance crew over unkept lawn[/i][/b] https://www.fox4news.com/news/man-arrested-for-shooting-at-police-code-compliance-crew-over-unkept-lawn
[b][i]Man killed over grass clippings dispute with neighbor’s landscaper[/i][/b] https://www.fox19.com/2021/06/09/man-killed-over-grass-clippings-dispute-with-neighbors-landscaper/
[b][i]Ohio man gunned down neighbor for cutting lawn at night, ran mower over body: cops[/i][/b] https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ohio-man-shot-neighbor-lawn-ran-mower-body-cops-article-1.2312771
[b][i]Man sets neighbor’s house on fire for not mowing his lawn, police say[/i][/b] https://www.q13fox.com/news/man-sets-neighbors-house-on-fire-for-not-mowing-his-lawn-police-say
[b][i]A white neighbor called police on a kid mowing a lawn. Later, they called as he played in a yard.[/i][/b] https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/7/2/17527382/reggie-fields-racial-profiling-911-police
[b][i]A Texas man mowing his lawn was killed after he was attacked by an aggressive swarm of bees[/i][/b] https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/29/us/texas-man-killed-by-bees-trnd/index.html
So, no matter what you do you will piss someone off and might get killed as a result, either by the cops, your neighbors, strangers, or the bees.
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I hear ya! Too often, perfect grass is more important than a garden for fruit and veggies...and yes, I'd leave it til the flowers and bees are all done. :)
I don’t believe in mowing my lawn because it’s horrible for the environment. I don’t care enough about my neighbors to even have that cross my mind. It’s free for them to mind their own business.
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@MorbidCynic Or they can offer to do it for you if it bothers them so much.
@SW-User my neighbor mowed my lawn with my permission once and I snapped at him. I don’t want it mowed and last I checked I was the one paying for the property tax.
@TryingtoLava my complaint is not about having to mow a lawn, haha. It's about the expectation that I would displace wildlife for pretty grass that Florida is generally hostile towards anyways. Having someone else mow it is going to do the same thing 😏
As for affording the house, I totally couldn't afford it if I had to buy it today. I got in at a low point after the last crash. Hell, I couldn't really afford rent in this area either anymore.
@BlueGreenGrey population problems are definitely going to be a hard one to tackle. Most developed places are seeing a leveling off of fertility but that's not good enough when we already have too many people.
And it's more than just water and temperature. We aren't giving soil quality enough time to recover between plantings.
But no legislative body is going to engage in procreation limitation. Even China has decided that was a bad way to go. Our economic systems are focused on growth and consumption. If you stop growing your population your economy collapses and you lose global influence.
Unsustainability is built into our systems top to bottom. And it all reinforces itself which makes it tough to fix it incrementally.