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I've often commented that I'm glad I have to water the garden because it's an excuse to just stand around looking at plants. I don't like watering grass becaus
by bonniemuffin 8y ago
I've often commented that I'm glad I have to water the garden because it's an excuse to just stand around looking at plants.
I don't like watering grass because grass is boring and requires a ton of water, so rather than install irrigation, I ripped out all the grass and planted more interesting plants. (Drought-tolerant xeriscaping is common in my area, so this isn't unusual.)
- reitanqild 8y ago> so rather than install irrigation, I ripped out all the grass and planted more interesting plants. Nice. A lot of local plants too?
- bonniemuffin 8y agoI don't think most of them are truly native to the area, but they're mostly cuttings of abuse-tolerant species that were growing well at friends' and neighbors' houses in the area.
- enneff 8y ago> just stand around looking at plants. Hard to overstate how good this is for one's mental health.
- TomVDB 8y agoWhen we bought a house with a pool, I did not keep the existing pool maintenance guy who'd come in every week for $100/month, and neither did I install a better pool vacuum robot. I love the 30min when I come home after work where I scoop leaves and various kinds of debris out of the water. Very relaxing.
- 0xfeba 8y agoHm, I had a pool once. Never again -- I felt like that's all I did was clean it, vacuum it, add chlorine tabs and clean the DE filter and destroy my lungs. I also don't really like plants, or the outdoors. I'd much rather be inside in the A/C. Working on my own coding projects doesn't bother me, even after coding all day long. Perhaps it's because I've been spending less time coding at work and more time managing...
- bonniemuffin 8y agoI'm pretty sure the part of my eye that processes tall green things and wide blue things is wired directly into the happy spot in my brain.