Oh yeah I couldn't imagine keeping this yard up while also having kids, lol, my wife and I both spend plenty of time maintaining it most weekends, the weeds are relentless and I refuse to use roundup. The dog loves it! She gets to explore all the smells from the resident critters and still has a good stretch of grass to run
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Honestly, what you see in the Pic is all the previous seasons leaves. Mostly magnolia and Persian ironwood. It's our first full year here so I'm seeing what works, I think a more natural approach is fine with mature trees like these
It's definitely it's own little ecosystem! Always lots of different bees, lately lots of dragonflies, a couple resident hummingbirds. The bees are currently loving the hydrangeas, looks like a constant swarm around it
Here's said hydrangea, been fading from pink to white as the season goes on.
Funny you say that, there's a bench directly behind where I took this photo in the corner of the yard. There's a bare trellis there that it backs up to but it's very shaded so I'm still deciding what to put there.. Thinking evergreen clematis or something.
Everyone tells younger men the same thing it seems. I heard the same bullshit from the time I started talking about it (vasectomy) as a teen. 35 now and nothing has changed, living the dink life with my wife and it's great. Boomer parents aren't too thrilled with the idea of 0 grandkids between their two sons, but that's not my job.. Might have felt a little sorry for them if they didn't vote the way they do.. But it's those choices that have led us to an environment that makes it too difficult to even consider bringing kids into, and it seems it's only getting worse.
I share the sentiment and have always felt the same way since I started thinking about it (even as a kid myself). The idea of having kids never appealed to me, I don't like being around them, never have, still don't at 35. I have a handful of nephews/nieces from in-laws now and still don't enjoy hanging around them even for short bursts of time... I don't have the patience for the screaming, crying, breaking shit, tantrums, messes, etc.
It's a 24/7 job for at least the next 20 years if you go through with it. Also, it's expensive as fuck. I enjoy expendable income and free time.
Doesn't really change the fact that it's more about whose child it is getting killed. They don't care til it happens to them, the fucking GOP in a nutshell.. Even then, significant change for the better is a crapshoot at best.
Pretty wonderful. My wife and I went a couple years ago early in the season so we didn't get to see quite as spectacular of a setting, still really cool though.
It's not the number that matters, it's whose kids it is getting killed. If someone were to shoot up a school filled with politicians' kids you'll see some change rapidly.
LA definitely got the Portland treatment. Interesting when they claim violence when the only violence to be seen stems from the fucking police and ICE.
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Too many spiders this time of year for hanging in that corner, haha, they love it in there these later summer months. Otherwise it is a great hammock spot!