Keeping Up Appearances
May. 23rd, 2018 11:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouseOr something like that.
I just spent two hours on my yard. Can you tell that I just spent two hours on my yard? Probably not. Though, you might be able to tell that I mowed the boulevard, if only because the grass had gotten long enough to start to sprout seed heads. But, really, now our boulevard basically looks like everyone else's boulevard, so maybe not?
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person in the world that struggles with basic yard work.
Though, last night, Shawn and I took a walk around the neighborhood and I noticed that my immediate neighbors seemed to have as many bare patches and rough sections as I do. I do wonder that, given the shift in how my generation feels about going organic and chemical free, if we're going to see a lot more crappy lawns in general. We're certainly not the only people in our immediate neighborhood to plant front yard gardens. Several folks a block or so east have entirely shade/natural flower gardens for "lawns."
But, back to my original point, I also have to wonder if some of my frustration with yard work is that I'm kind a clumsy nerd at heart. Just pulling out the lawn mower was a huge hassle of untangling the electric cord and hauling it around to the boulevard and THE WHOLE THING WAS JUST SO HARD. Probably other people don't trip over the cords they're carrying. Gods, I do. And, then, like Pig Pen from "Peanuts" I end up tangled in the cords and completely immobilized. (At least that's how I feel.)
On the other hand, it's done now and the yard looks fairly passable.
At least where most people can see it.
I just spent two hours on my yard. Can you tell that I just spent two hours on my yard? Probably not. Though, you might be able to tell that I mowed the boulevard, if only because the grass had gotten long enough to start to sprout seed heads. But, really, now our boulevard basically looks like everyone else's boulevard, so maybe not?
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person in the world that struggles with basic yard work.
Though, last night, Shawn and I took a walk around the neighborhood and I noticed that my immediate neighbors seemed to have as many bare patches and rough sections as I do. I do wonder that, given the shift in how my generation feels about going organic and chemical free, if we're going to see a lot more crappy lawns in general. We're certainly not the only people in our immediate neighborhood to plant front yard gardens. Several folks a block or so east have entirely shade/natural flower gardens for "lawns."
But, back to my original point, I also have to wonder if some of my frustration with yard work is that I'm kind a clumsy nerd at heart. Just pulling out the lawn mower was a huge hassle of untangling the electric cord and hauling it around to the boulevard and THE WHOLE THING WAS JUST SO HARD. Probably other people don't trip over the cords they're carrying. Gods, I do. And, then, like Pig Pen from "Peanuts" I end up tangled in the cords and completely immobilized. (At least that's how I feel.)
On the other hand, it's done now and the yard looks fairly passable.
At least where most people can see it.
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Date: 2018-05-24 11:18 am (UTC)We also aspire to garden, but we have allergies and fulltime jobs ;_;
The struggle I am going to personally undertake soon is weeding. Probably the neighbors will continue to be unimpressed despite several hours of struggling with poky plants and carefully looking for poison ivy. SIGH.
Home ownership, at least for me, has so many little tasks I'm not good at. Maybe after a couple decades I'll feel like I have it under control?
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Date: 2018-05-24 01:33 pm (UTC)Holy crap. Truer words have never been spoken. I'm weirdly glad that I'm not, in fact, alone, but man... I wish it was better for both of us, instead?
The full-time job thing. I mean, I have only a part-time job and I STiLL SUCK. I feel like you get extra credit trying to squeeze in time to weed, etc., with a full-time job.