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Comments (14)Despite the original posters overly extensive post, with certain questionable content, the central point is still quite vaild. We as a nation spend more money on grass than on any other crop. That by itself should be reason enough. Read up on the history of lawns and you'll find that they were orginally created as a means of demonstrating wealth (aka, I have this big area and I can afford to do nothing with it except grow grass I can't eat) Regarding the comments of junegem13 and zachslc, you might want to read up on the legal history of this movement. As it turns out, most weed laws (ones based on hight, not on noxious weeds) are unconstitutional. Nonetheless, if you are in a city or subdivision and decide to do a wildflower meadow where there is not an reasonable ordinance, then you should notify your neighbors and the city about why you are doing and the legal preceedants. The EPA has all this information. Regarding property values, that was the original complaint neighbors made against one landowner when she converted her lawn into meadow. When they were unable to demonstrate an actual decrease in property values, the city ordinance was ruled unconstitutional. Afterwards, the neighbors decided if they couldn't beat her that they'd join her and replace their own yards with meadows. Property values in that one neighborhood are now some of the highest in the city (Specific names and places, are available if you want them). Time and time again, lawn alternatives done correctly have shown to raise values, not lower them. In Charlottesville, VA local government is working on an ammendment to exclude native meadows from our weed ordinance. Other cities are doing the same very quicky, especially since the weed ordinance as written by many localites constitutes a legal liability to local governments....See MoreDH is money dumb
Comments (31)Sus905, With Joe's antecedents appearing to be as they are, and it's probably been a few years since his birth, I think his pedigree is "mutt". Gina in FL, I am sorry if you feel personally offended by my viewpoints. I grew up on a farm where in the early years we had no pressure water system, which meant of course, no flush toilet. After we got pressured water there was no hot water heater - we had a wood/coal-fired range that had a tank on the back where we heated water for bathing, washing, etc. Later we moved to the prairies where we had no electricity and collected (scarce) water from the roof for washing and had to bring water from elsewhere for drinking, cooking, etc. for a couple of years till Dad bought his own farm, by which time I was away to University. I spent several years helping a few of hundreds of thousands of refugees get their lives back in some semblance or order after the terrible Korean War. Even ordinary citizens there, apart from refugees, had to save for years to afford a bicycle. Millions have been uprooted from familiar surroundings, made homeless, etc. since that time. No home, almost no food, no education available for their kids (and they couldn't afford to pay the fees, anyway) and no medical services available. In earlier years we felt that those wide oceans insulated us from those serious problems in the world. Not any more. We can ignore those issues if we please - but they will not go away. They'll just get worse. And - believe me - they will impact us. Increasingly so. I prefer to deal with them now, at a time and place of my choosing. And encourage others to do so, as well. Or - my grandkids will have to deal with them later. Quite possibly not at a time and place of their choosing. We can tell others not to stand up in their canoe, or they may tip it over and drown. This world is one small, fragile canoe. We occupy it with them. If we screw up much more than we have already - we may destroy ourselves. Some of the other species inhabiting the earth might say that would be a good thing - that man has destroyed a great deal of this precious world, and the only way that they can survive is ... ... if mankind departs. If I saw that your house was on fire, came to your front door and suggested that we have a game of bridge ... ... how much respect would you have for me, when you learned the truth? When I leave this world, in a few years (or maybe tomorrow?) and arrive at the Great Gate ... ... I think that my Heavenly Parent will have some things to say to me about my heedless greed that I will not want to hear. After all, S/He loves the faceless millions in other parts of the world as much as S/He loves me. As I said above - I am sorry if you feel personally offended by my expression of my understnding of the realities that we face in this old world. Good wishes to you and yours, (still) joyful guy...See MorePoll - Should I go back to work?
Comments (64)I've just discovered this thread and not a moment too soon (or late?). I can sooooo sympathsize. I'm also a stay at home mom former teacher debating the return to work. I have gotten totally jazzed reading all the great ideas and options. like you, I know htat my whole family would be miserable if I returned to work full-time. Right now I have a great set up subbing at my oldest dd's school. I have MIL babysit and when she can't I swap child care with a neighbor who works evenings. If you ever do feel the need to sub, find a nice girl's school with strict rules. My daughter's school is a dream to sub at. Small class sizes, the teachers always leave extensive plans and the girls actually respect the teachers (even subs). But as you said the pay sucks. It really only works out to be spending cash for me. So the ideas in the thread about future employment when my youngest starts school are real boosters. Good luck with that pet sitting. I am envious of your opportunity and the excitement that goes with something new and exciting - not to mention lucrative!...See MoreA Facebook question/request, please....
Comments (43)Nobody can read anything about you that you don't post on Facebook. I do have my phone numbers in my info, but not my address. I have it so only "friends" can see my photos, not friends of friends. And you have to be on my "friends" list to even see my profile. You can't even view my friends list without being on my "friends" list. The gifts and snowball fights are all just for fun. If you don't like all the applications, you can block them. You do have that option. Also, if there is someone on Facebook you don't want to find you, rather than avoid using your name, simply 'block' that person. That way they don't see anything about you, not even that you have an account. I've been on Facebook for a year and a half and really like it. I play Scarab Solitaire almost every day. Also love Scrabble but preferred it before Parker Brothers forced Scrabulous to shut down. Their version was actually better. Facebook is as safe as you set your profile and applications to. That's completely up to you. If my best friend from childhood hadn't put her last name on Facebook, I'd have never found her. I just wish more married women used their maiden names on Facebook too, which is why my last name is hyphenated. I've only found one school friend. You don't have to post your employment, your address, your phone numbers. And if you do post your phone number, you can make it private. Just go into the privacy settings. I hated MySpace, but love Facebook....See Moresushipup1
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