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Dave Wise (Neoteric Wood Art)'s avatar

"Solid neighbor; would hide a weapon for you no questions asked"

That's effing genius/hilarious!

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Abigail Grebe's avatar

So hilarious! Thanks for sharing!!

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Joe Donatelli's avatar

Thank you. Just doing my part to contribute to important yard discourse.

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Doug's avatar

Option 3: Hire neighborhood kid to mow your lawn. Advantages: 1) Stimulates commerce. 2) Teaches the value of work. 3) You avoid menial tasks better suited for younger, less valuable people. WIN-WIN-WIN.

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Joe Donatelli's avatar

This plan is also 70 percent of reason why I had kids

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Joe Donatelli's avatar

You truly understand about mowing sir

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John R Ploehs's avatar

i read this recently https://www.citybeat.com/arts/northern-kentucky-business-native-yardening-reveals-how-our-yards-impact-the-climate-crisis-and-how-we-can-use-them-to-fight-it-17174313 and it had me thinking of how i could do more for our planet, but i still love to mow the lawn, if i can find a better excuse to put on headphones and be unavailable to my wife and kids for 90 minutes, well i haven’t

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