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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:20 pm
by thibodeaux
Show your work.
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:21 pm
by GORDON
Mulch with the mower. Rake not at all.
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:27 pm
by thibodeaux
That's pretty much the plan, but my mower doesn't mulch worth a damn.
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 9:20 pm
by TheCatt
I rake first, but I use my leaves as mulch for other parts of the yard.
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 9:56 pm
by GORDON
thibodeaux wrote:That's pretty much the plan, but my mower doesn't mulch worth a damn.
You can get a mulching blade, and a.... I don't even know what it is called, but a device that stops up the grass ejection port. This facilitates the mulching action.
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 10:40 pm
by Paul
I never rake.
I have a mulching blade.
However, no neighbor can see my lawn, and I decided to quit mowing weeks ago.
My mower has a flap that raises so grass will fly into the bag, but drops when I remove the bag so it can mulch.
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 10:54 am
by Leisher
Anything left over after I mow, I'll rake up.
Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 11:06 am
by Troy
I live 15 stories up in the middle of midtown. Sometimes I see trees from my balcony.
Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 11:27 am
by TPRJones
There's no grass in my apartment.
"Outside" is only useful to me because it's where I keep my car. There's no grass there, either.
Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 2:23 pm
by GORDON
Troy wrote:I live 15 stories up in the middle of midtown. Sometimes I see trees from my balcony.
I think I was in my late 20's when I finally had enough of sharing walls/floors/ceilings with other people. It is no way to live.
Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 8:51 pm
by Alhazad
GORDON wrote:Troy wrote:I live 15 stories up in the middle of midtown. Sometimes I see trees from my balcony.
I think I was in my late 20's when I finally had enough of sharing walls/floors/ceilings with other people. It is no way to live.
Did the bumps keep startling you as you nervously tried on women's clothing in the mirror, you sissy?
Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 9:29 pm
by GORDON
The smell of curry in the hallways. The roaches coming through the vents from other peoples' nasty apartments. Competing for the good parking spaces, then having shit vandalized. Complete lack of private area outside for garden, etc. Then the noise; the situation most near and dear to me in Memphis was when I was in a 3rd floor apartment, and we had a great, huge balcony off our bedroom. This means so did our downstairs, right below ours. And I guess they worked a funny shift because all night, every night it was them on their balcony hanging out with friends, playing country music, drinking. Exactly, and literally, 14 feet from where I would try to sleep at night.
Fuck... and I can't stress this enough... FUCK.... apartment living.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 11:48 am
by Alhazad
So you're comparing renting a low-quality apartment in the shitty parts of town with renting a nice private home in the good parts. I could easily turn that around and it'd go the other way. Has, even.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 12:57 pm
by GORDON
Alhazad wrote:So you're comparing renting a low-quality apartment in the shitty parts of town with renting a nice private home in the good parts. I could easily turn that around and it'd go the other way. Has, even.
I've been in low-end $400 apartment, and high-end $1100 apartments. Nothing much changes. In fact, most of what I was describing came from the $1100 apartment.
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 10:15 am
by TPRJones
Shitty neighbors make shitty neighbors. Doesn't mean there aren't good ones out there, too.
After seven years in my current apartment, I have yet to hear my neighbors through the walls even once. From time to time I do hear a loud car in the parking lot (thumping base and/or car alarm) but very rarely and never for more than a few moments.