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 |  Re-dedicated - April 1, 2021, Brother Nature's views from the Winnipeg River SE Manitoba |
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I'M BEGINNING TO LIKE THIS BLOG ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** YOU CAN TOO  MUSE APPROVED ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** 30 Day Blogging Challenge PROMPT for January 27, 2020 Discuss a time in your life when someone has tried to "fix" or "solve" a problem for you - but you didn't see it as a problem in the first place. How do you generally handle unsolicited opinions/advice? Brother Nature Yard-Care was the name of the yard-care business I started and operated for 11 years. My youngest brother and I had a yard-care business together for six years before that. I closed my yard-care business when we moved out of the city and took up residence in Sunset Bay. The point I'm trying to raise is: I know a thing or two about lawns and growing grass. (Not that kind of grass) I enjoy the work and the reward earned in performing yard maintenance and landscaping. I was looking forward to transforming our yard at the lake into an amazing display of landscaping excellence featuring a large green, lush, healthy, weed-free lawn. We moved in just before the snow arrived, so it wasn't until April that I was able to begin work on the lawn. The front yard is approximately 900 sq. FT with a small ornamental pond center-right, The back is an oddly shaped 1800 sq. FT including a large rectangular garden, which I was returning back to lawn space. I began by giving the entire property a spring clean up. (raking, grass cutting, string trimming, I worked a solid 6 hrs) I met our new neighbor, Norm. We spoke for quite a while. Norm mentioned a couple of times how he cut the grass for the previous owners. And I mentioned back a couple of times that I would be taking care of my own lawn-care chores. I should clarify that we were still in the process of moving to the lake and were just going there on weekends at this time. So now it makes sense when I say, the next weekend I cut the grass, and Norm came over on his riding-mower and started to help me cut my lawn. Afterward, we had a chat during which I mentioned that he didn't have to help me with my lawn work, and Norm reminded me that he used to cut the lawn for the previous owners. The next weekend I applied weed-control to the entire lawn. The weekend after that I cut the lawn, then put down an application of granular fertilizer as well as another application of weed control. It rained the night after I did this, which made for ideal conditions for over-seeding the entire yard. All of this was about 8hrs work and nearly $300.00 in lawn-care products. The following weekend when I arrive in Sunset Bay I'm greeted by a brown, dry, dead lawn, front and back. Someone had come and cut the lawn and literally shaved it. I was standing out in the middle of the deforestationated area thinking WTF! when Norm pops out between the hedge that separates our yards, and shouts, "Hey I cut your lawn for you." With what? With my lawn-tractor. It's umm kinda short. That way you don't have to cut it as often. What I really meant to say was, "It's cut way too short, it's burnt, dead!" Yeah, I had a problem with my mower, the cutting deck is broken, it pretty much just drags along the ground. Why didn't you just stop? Oh, it was like that before I started, my lawn tractor's been broken for a couple of weeks now. Last week I put about three hundred dollars worth of fertilizer, weed control, and grass-seed on the entire lawn, front and back. It doesn't look like it. I have to go in the house now, Norm. Norm and I had a couple more conversations before he stopped cutting my lawn. We formed some sort of slow withdrawal of services schedule. Norm moved away a couple of years ago, he was a pretty good neighbor, a very nice man, and he has a lovely family. Norm gets to be the double feature in today's blog entry because not only is he the lawn-killing lunatic unwanted lawn-care technogeek of Sunset Bay he is also the reigning king of unsolicited opinions/advice. How do I handle this? I just smile and nod. Smile and Nod. |
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