Wed 4 Jun 2008
How to not grow creeping charlie
Filed in Happy Thoughts, Omphaloskepsis, Windsor4 Comments
I’ve always thought growing grass was a terrible idea. As a kid I was pretty practical and I didn’t see any benefit to having a green lawn full. I was also pretty well aware of the amount of effort required to maintain the lawn at home growing up since the mower was often my job. I hated mowing it and my parents weren’t even really big lawn freaks. We had weeds and dandelions and bare patches. I always marveled at the crazy amount of time and effort our neighbours across the street wasted on keeping their yard green and presentable.
Now I’ve grown up and I feel pretty much the same way. It might not make my neighbours happy but at least I didn’t follow through with my plan to pave it and paint it green. As a child I assumed the problem was that people wanted a large green square in front of their homes and concrete seemed to be a very practical solution to that problem.
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