Most people need to be more sensitive like Ralph and less practical like John
and pay closer attention to authority...like me.

-jc

PS most people need to let their grass grow longer, set their blades higher and
sharpen them once in awhile.

Ruth Barton wrote:

> But most people don't like the look of long grass.  Ruth
>
> At 5:13 PM -0400 9/11/02, John Leeke wrote:
> >Ruth writes:
> >>>Subject: Re: Weed Wackers
> >
> >But you'd squawk like HELL if you had to pay his going rate for him to trim
> >it all by hand like I used to do in the cemetery.  Ruth<<
> >
> >There are always better ways to control maintenance costs than squawking.
> >What I would do is simply take weed wacking around the historic buildings
> >off of the maintenance task list. Saves money, saves historic fabric, saves
> >squawking. I have yet to see a case where letting a little grass grow up
> >around the building has caused as much damage as wacking.
> >
> >John
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