The Most Futile Activity on the Planet

Then people should clean the streets - not GRASS.

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well you just called it a "futile" activity...which it is not. Old grandmas will get hurt, all because you as a mayor of a city decided that in your city it is a "futile" activity to clean up the leaves on the streets.

 

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Make Thee the Bed !

 

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The most futile activity on the planet?

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Search youtube for the family guy skit.

 

When I was a young punk I would hide big rocks and cinder blocks in piles of leaves to get back at all thse bastards that would drive through my leaf piles that I spend all day raking.

 

The street ain't my problem.

On the other hand, I want my lawn all nice and green and perky so I can slaughter it with my lawn mower while it belches phat greenhouse gasses as it roars and roars and roars !

Them old Grandmas should be dead, anyway - and who told 'em they could walk near my house ?!?

 

Leaves left will turn into great fertilizer and make some of the richest topsoil you can find. I almost never rake leaves. If I do, I don't put them in plastic bags and send them to a landfill - I put them off to a corner of the yard and let them compost themselves.

I have to disagree on the snow thing, though...
We often get very wet snow here. If I do not shovel while it is still falling, the compressed stuff on the bottom will freeze and be so much more difficult to shovel in the morning - especially if it was warm when it started. Snow is a great insualtor and that layer of water will become a layer of ice underneath.

I'd much rather shovel 2 - 3 times than have one VERY HEAVY, wet, frozen shoveling at the end.

 

You are so poetic....

 

EXACTLY! People just rake leaves cause they want their freakin lawn to "look good"! :bugeye:

Another thing that really annoys me. :bugeye:

I guess that was a bad example...

 

Once you get old you will regret the words you spoke.

 

As I believe has already been mentioned, leaving the leaves might also cause parts of the lawn to be killed. This even happened to me when a meddlesome neighbor decided to drive his lawn mower thru a giant pile of leaves I'd raked up to the base of the tree they'd fallen from - this while I was at work the next day, planning to buy some "giant sized" bags to stuff 'em into. The mulched up mess was so thick that it just sort of "choked off" wee hunks of lawn that I couldn't rake the mess out of. (a couple subsequent days of rain didn't help...)
Thankfully, the old bastard has since dropped dead !
:mufc:

By the time I'm that old, falling and breaking my neck will be a blessing !

I'm going to get one of those "Medic Alert" bracelets that reads DO NOT Resuscitate !
:itold:

 

It may seem so...

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...but when it does happen you will look back and say I wish I lived a bit more, because life is so much of meaning and happiness and joy.

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Opium poppy ?

 

Who cares the lawn was killed!? Winter will come and kill it anyways! It's inevitable!

 

Who cares that Grandma was killed!? Time will come and kill her anyway! It's inevitable!

 

You must have some kind of alien Bozotsky lawns wherever you live.

I mean - I'm no botanist, so I can't tell you what's going on with the grass when Winter comes, but it sure as shit don't seem dead, because - wonder of wonders - it starts growing again when Spring comes !

But if something is left lying on the grass - like leaves for instance - maybe it blocks out the sunlight while the plant isn't "dormant" or whatever.
One way or another, it doesn't take too long before that patch is deader than a doornail. You can tell because it has turned yellow, dries up and is replaced by whatever opportunistic vegetation can exploit the space quickest.

I've literally seen it with my own eyes.

 

You don't think a huge pile of snow kill the grass?


Well... I'm no botanist either...

 

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actually snow protects the grass, keeping the warmth in the ground.

 

If you've ever kicked away some snow during the winter, the grass looks more lush than it ever does.