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> Otherwise you probably find raking very labor and time intensive. I find it to be a good excuse to spend time outdoors performing a meditative physical activ
by colanderman 8y ago
> Otherwise you probably find raking very labor and time intensive.
I find it to be a good excuse to spend time outdoors performing a meditative physical activity.
I would be mortified to subject my neighbors – 10 or so within 200 ft radius – to the hellish cacophony of a leaf blower. Even an electric one, which one of my neighbors uses, sounds like someone is running a cheap air compressor inside my home for hours on end.
- brokenmachine 8y agoI wish you were my neighbor. My neighbors do whatever they want - however pointless - whenever they want.
- markbnj 8y agoFor one thing it's shared pain: I'm not subjecting my neighbors to anything they are not in turn subjecting me to, so we all deal with our pain in the name of leaf removal once per year. Also, we all collectively have many opportunities for "meditative physical activity." There is grass to be cut, beds to be weeded, snow to be shoveled, paint to be painted, etc. What we have less of is time. I was born in the 60's so I've done a lot of hand raking, including my current property before I owned a blower. It's a matter of probably 8 to 10 hours to do the whole thing. So we all make judgments, I guess, about where to spend the free time we have, and what amount of labor saving is worth what amount of cacophony.