My neighbor used to prep his garden with a cat bulldozer on a 3/4 acre lot.
He also doesn't mow his lawn, he harvests it. He lets it grow long. Then he
cuts it short in a small patch each day, he gathers up the cut grass and
feeds it to his chickens and ducks.

Odd neighbors are everywhere!

"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
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The house next to mine is empty. The owner died, and the son's supposedly
been fixing it up for almost 2 years, getting it ready to sell. When I
first moved in, he introduced himself along with a good looking lady he
called "his friend", who's there all the time with him, fixing up the
house. A month later, he introduced his wife. Smart guy. You think he
would've done a bit of prep work with me before introducing the wife.
Reminds me of someone I knew years ago who was having an affair. He'd take
his goomar out to all sorts of nice restaurants & hotels. He "forgot" that
his wife was in charge of paying all the bills, and that all the dinners &
hotels were on his American Express card. Duh. :-)

Lately, the neighbor's got a new hobby. He stops by 3 times a week to mow
the lawn. Half the property is in deep shade, in a spot that most
experienced homeowners would recognize as one which needed to have two
thirds of the trees taken down. A dozen pine trees growing 8 feet apart,
like in an unmanaged forest. There are 3 blades of grass in a 75 x 100
foot area, along with lots of smallish rocks & tree roots that stick up
from the hard-as-cement soil. He's got the deck of the riding mower set so
low that it seems to be actual contact with the ground. It raises so much
dust that the guy and his mower are completely invisible at times. The
sound of rocks crashing around inside the deck offer a clue as to his
location. On the other side of the property, the grass is shorter than
cheap outdoor carpet, and turning brown. He told me last week that the
problem might be lack of nitrogen. He's out there with a spreader right
now. :-)

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