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Forget grass. Anyone know anything about planting a rice paddy/field?
 
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I do mine, the 77 year old neibours next door, the little patch where the garbage cans go from the guy building a house in his spare time across the back lane and the 78 year old place who has stage 4 lung cancer and lives down the lane.
It gives me satisfaction to know I helped make things neat and tidy in my little part of the world. It makes up for the idiots who live in rental houses who never cut their grass and let the city do it and charge the home owners taxes.
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06-11-2018, 10:05 AM
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Usually, but I had some help today:
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06-11-2018, 10:16 AM
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Baz: Dexter (the little one) came to live with me when his family got the bird dog....New one has really grown and comes to visit. They can't live together, but play well in my yard.....Everyone is happy.
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06-11-2018, 10:19 AM
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Make that drainage ditch deep and wide and plant edible cattails with willows along the edges. A section of pavers and hammock and beer cooler underneath for mowing breaks. Heck buy some snapper turtles off the internet to go with your prize winning coi. Buy a whole bunch of turtles. psst I can hook you up man and know a wholesale guy. I just need a small cut of it. I heard wild turtles are the in-thing these days. Last edited by john70t; 06-11-2018 at 10:43 AM.. |
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I do. Always have. I take pride in it. Helps with self-esteem, IMHO.
I'm picky too when it comes to a lot of stuff - and this is no different. When you do your own you do it how you want it done - no ifs ands or buts. Here's a property I did the original landscaping for a couple years ago and subsequently contracted for it's upkeep, although maintenance isn't my main gig, I have a handful I took on after completing the install. This one's under renovation so I did it on Saturday when no one was working there. Like a golf course...... 
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06-11-2018, 10:22 AM
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I great up mowing lawns then working on a landscape crew. Looking back a decent percentage of my life has been spend cutting grass, at this point it seems like something I just do. |
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06-11-2018, 10:27 AM
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I do ours unless my wife gets to it first. She likes to put on noise canceling headphones and an audible book or music. We only have 1.33 acres with trees so it takes an hour and a half or so.
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06-11-2018, 10:29 AM
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06-11-2018, 10:42 AM
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Yes I do. About every 10 days.
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06-11-2018, 10:45 AM
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My wife mows right around the house with a self propelled walk behind. Takes her around an hour.
I mow the rest (around an acre and a quarter) with a tractor and finish mower. Takes me close to an hour as well. 
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06-11-2018, 11:03 AM
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Little ashamed to admit it, but this year I got an email from the outfit that fertilizes my yard with a $23 a week mowing package. I really did have to think about it, but with commuting by bicycle 40 miles each day, I get plenty of excersise already and am short on time to do a bunch of home improvement jobs.
I never enjoyed it and it seems like you have to sometimes schedule your life around it during periods of rain and fast growth.
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06-11-2018, 02:05 PM
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I mow my own - almost 2 acres. And if I didn't, I'd have to start since I recently bought this as an upgrade from the 6 year old Craftsman rider...
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06-11-2018, 06:38 PM
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I don’t. I cut my parents grass and then my own grass for 30 years. I’ve had enough. Florida humidity is another deterent.
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In about one month that yard will be dry as a bone. I wish I did have a more constant water supply to make a dedicated stream. I do need to do some grading work here, but it would require working with my neighbor and us both buying several dumptruck loads of dirt. Until then, we'll both continue to pull waterskiers behind the tractor during the monsoon months of april/may/june.. |
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 ...FREE TURTLES!!! Snappers or Sliders....I'll put that wholesaler out of business..... KC'sFreeTurtles.com (web site under development)....
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We have 2.5 acres at the retirement ranch
 of which I mow about 1.5 of . I have a John Deere 318 + 330 and it takes me about 2 hours or so to mow it all . Being retired I have the luxury of mowing anytime I want and when it's dry . I have quite a few trees to mow around and virtually none of it is flat , Most of it is a gently gradual slope but in the back yard there is one section that is a challenge and gets the heart pumpin !
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06-12-2018, 05:33 AM
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I mow the 5 acre runway and along the road pulling about 10' of mower.... Takes me about 50 minutes. My wife usually mows the 4 acres of yard on a 60" zero turn.... Takes her about 1.5-2hrs. Sometimes I end up doing the yard also on the zero turn... Takes me about 1.25-1.5 hrs.
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1964 Porsche 356 C Sunroof coupe
1972 Porsche 914 2.0 fuel injected
1983 Porsche 911 SC Targa
Work vehicle
1979 Porsche 911SC
1977 Porsche 911S Targa
