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I just DID mow my 1 1/2-acre lot (half of it is in woods and honeysuckle). I consider mowing optional due to having an excellent "Mow Guy" who will do it with a phone call anytime. But I wanted to feel the sun and spring weather. :)

I'm posting because I'm now showered and relaxing while watching three young bucks mulch all of my beds. My back says thanks. It warms my heart watching these young men work their butts off. We did weed for them...

It's really great to be able to afford anything you no longer want to (or can) do! :dance:
 
Yes. That is FIRE in a nutshell. You do what you want to do and pay for stuff you don't want to do because you saved and invested well. Good on you!
 
Just paid a guy $800 to rake the pine needles off our property for fire migration. I remember doing it myself and then paying someone $300 to rake and then get it hauled off from the HOA. They made it more difficult than last year so it's money well spent.
 
I haven't cut my grass in 5 years and its the best money I spend. I literally will stop what I'm doing to pay the bill when I get the email on the first of the month.
 
Just spent 3 to 4 hours mowing about 15 acres last week around the house and workshops when it was about 75 degs. First time this year so it was "almost" enjoyable.
 
I just retired from mowing this year. But I still trim, edge, weed, mulch, spray. And I have a younger guy I pay to do the heavy stuff.

It is nice to see people mowing your yard, even though they do not do it as well as I did.
 
Mowed today @ 85 F and high humidity. Small yard, though. Really need to rethink living in a house alone (have a dog though).
 
These are my yard torts, they keep whatever grass grows up cropped.
 

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It snowed last weekend, so yardwork is still a little slow. So far I have reworked the irrigation for our raised garden bed, turned soil in raised bed, put down mulch, fertilized, and built a fence around our side flower garden. Our dog likes to dig in that part of the yard. I don't want him tearing up the plants or drip irrigation.

If it looks like it won't freeze in the next 10 days, I'll turn on the sprinkler system soon.
 
aja8888 said:
Mowed today @ 85 F and high humidity. Small yard, though. Really need to rethink living in a house alone (have a dog though).
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I have people, but I keep the yard as a buffer from neighbors.
 
No grass since 1996.

I did trim bushes out front.

Many bushes and plants died off from extreme drought last year.
 
Koolau said:
Are they free range or "captive?"

Very cool animals!
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Both African tortoises, both rescues. They are both well adapted to our high desert grasslands. One wears a tracker if we need to find her on cold nights, the other goes into a heated shed when it's cold by herself.
 
Too early to mow the north-facing hill that our house sits on. I'll have to mow the 2 acres of lawn once, maybe twice, before our house closes in mid-May. Then I'll be done doing yard with lawns and making the trade to desert landscape. The old John Deere lawn tractor will be heading to Green Bay, where my best friend will be ready to cut his lawn at his new place for the first time this year.

I never minded the mowing. I dreamed once that I got too close to one of the rock walls and fell over with the tractor. I'll try to avoid that dream coming true.
 
I know what a lawn mower is, I've seen lawn mowers work, but...truth: I have never, not once in 73 years put my hand on one. I've had the opportunity to touch one but after all these years don't want to break my record. Plus, I'd probably get hurt. Or something.

Happy for those who enjoy doing it.
 
I mowed yards as a kid, for swimming pool and soda pop money. I did have every bicycle go-faster from the local Western Auto.

I mowed for a couple of years after me and the finance company bought a house, but 100+ degree days and 12 hour shifts put a stop to that!
 
I ditched the mower when we moved and retired. Now is weed whacking season, and that is my main yard work. That, and we cut 6 trees close to the house. Still gotta do something with the stumps and 1 bush. I do not miss mowing. Next year I will spray more and hopefully whack less.
 
I just finished moving 4 cord of firewood into the woodshed last week in 7 days, I like being warm in the winter. Mid 70's but it has to be done. I can understand paying for work you don't want to do. I guess I'm not that old yet! :dance:
 
I'm almost there, but I think I'm going to do it at least one more year. One thing I'm going to focus on this year is landscaping the yard in a way that I have as little hand mowing to do as possible. I live on an acre and the more I can do on the riding mower, the longer I'll be able to do it.
 
I don’t really mind mowing, although my lot is only about 1/4 acre. But after years of weeding, edging, and mulching every spring I started paying someone to do that last year. It really is money well spent as hauling all those mulch bags around was hard on my back.

And an interesting (but meaningless) observation: I would guesstimate about 75% of the homes in my neighborhood pay a lawn service to mow. Of the remaining 25% or so, it appears that most of the homeowners doing the mowing are women (including me). I even have one neighbor who wears headphones and sings while she is mowing!
 
We are about 1/3 acre and now that we are here a while I am glad it is not bigger. It would just be more to maintain.
 
ksr said:
I even have one neighbor who wears headphones and sings while she is mowing!
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The first few times mowing when we moved into a house after years in apartments, I was singing.
I'm looking over my dead dog Rover that I hit with the power mower! :biggrin:
 
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