Wednesday, November 25, 2009
My Own Walden
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- by Emma, on Sun Oct 18, 2009 6:12am PDT
The house in
which we live was for many years a rental for college students.
Once upon a time, the yard was probably semi-organized and tended
but over the years has become an overgrown mess. As gardening is
not one of my strong suits, I have not spent much time making it
any better. I whack at the gi-normous bushes every now and again
but it just seems to to make them look like they have bush mohawks
because I cannot reach the 12 foot branches in the
middle.
Perhaps I should rename the house
"Walden" and insist it is a nature preserve and bird
sanctuary. I could proclaim honeysuckle as endangered and therefore
encourage its rampant growth over everything in the yard. To my
neighbors who complain my preserve makes their manicured lawns look
bad, I will recite the verses of Emerson and Thoreau who maintained
untamed nature is the best evidence of God on earth. Do you think
"No using God to justify not cutting your grass" is in
the neighborhood covenants?
To make matters worse, I am
deathly afraid of snakes and allergic to poison ivy. And you just
know both of those demons are lurking in the mass of flora and
fauna. I bet there is an anaconda in the pampas grass right now
just licking its chops waiting for me to come near enough for it to
eat me. Then what would my children do?
I will be brave and forge ahead into the unknown
wilderness that is my front yard. Wish me luck....
UPDATE: My bush nemesis now has a buzz cut! It
took THREE HOURS for one bush and there are still 18 more to go. My
enthusiasm for communing with nature has worn off. Going inside to
call my friend with a chainsaw and make myself a
martini.
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Posted by casy Sun Oct 18, 2009 7:24am PDT
Good writing..Some humor in you task....Snakes....Watch out ...Ha....Where do you live?....Any way good write up and good luck. We too just last month finished our yard project....Took for ever. We opened up a can of worms ....took all the old land scapeing out and put all new in. I took forever...But looks GREAT now...Clean and simple yet elegant. Looked like a junglr before. We put in 8 Red Knock out Roses, Beautiful among other things...Trees , low bushes etc. So good luck to you and your jungle project....Stop m\by my post and help me name my new pup/dog...thanks xoxox Casy :)
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Posted by Mrs. Carol B Wed Oct 21, 2009 10:54am PDT
Agree with you totally on the snakes and poison ivy............whew!
I love country living. When we bought this house in Maine my husband asked if I wanted him to put down new grass......heck no, I want a "country lawn" full of dandelions and pine needles. Brings me back to my childhood on the farm before we moved to the city. It's like COMING HOME.................................
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