Maybe I'm just being contrarian.

I wish they'd let the lawn go right to the foundation of my house and let me take my weedwacker to the edges when it obscures my view...or annoys my wife...or the neighbors.  Hell, the house wasn't built to last 50 years anyway and even if it does I either won't be the one who has to deal with it...and even if I am, I doubt I'll care that much...but complaining might be fun!  Anyway, now instead of creating the groove thing on my foundation, I've got to dig up all this gravel stuff and replace that plastic crap that keeps bunching up and working its way down the hill and up to the surface, sort of like a lawn wedgie.

Relax...it'll take me another ten years to finish painting my existing non-conforming white picket fense...and that's a much higher priority.

-jc

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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