Posted on 11/14/2014 5:18:25 AM PST by Biggirl
In America there are two types of people; the oppressed and the oppressors.The oppressed oppress the oppressors. And everyone including the oppressors agrees that this is only fair because the oppressors deserve to be oppressed. After all they are the oppressors.
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I’m a tired old white man, I’m “feeling” oppressed. Gibsmedat.
I live across the street from a rather large park, full of huge oak trees, prevailing winds bring every leaf in that park to my yard and I’ve been blowing, raking and burning leaves every day for the past ten days, no let up in sight.
I wonder if there is a gov program to help over worked old white guys like me?
It’s all about THEM and it’s only happening to THEM....
No other people on the face of the earth are as bad off, no one else suffers, no one else has to sacrifice, no one else has a tough way to go...etc.
It really IS nauseating.
I have the same exact problem plus a 2 block long street directly across from my drive where the prevailing winds send those 2 blocks’ worth of leaves into my yard as well. The solution for me was to put up a temporary barricade by using the green colored hurricane fence to keep most of them from accumulating in my yard.
That brought me down from about 200 bags of leaves to about 20.
Of course when the only trees on my property generating leaves to clean up are a small flowering crab (about 10-15 years old) and a small red Maple about the same age... well it gets more than a bit tiring to deal with so much excess that doesn’t get picked up by the real owners.
The most expensive free cotton labor in world history.
>> The most expensive free cotton labor in world history.
Bingo. Importing them was the biggest and most costly mistake in our nation’s history.
And yet, from *their* long term perspective, it was the best thing that ever happened to them. But they’re too vile and stupid to realize and admit it.
The hurricane fence idea occurred to me too. How much does that stuff cost? I believe I have about 140 feet frontage.
I also have two walnut trees on my property. Talk about a pain in the a$$.
An economist compiled the data and concluded that the total amount of capital spent on welfare programs in the USA is more than that required to purchase EVERY stock of EVERY company on the NYSE and Nasdaq and also buy EVERY acre of farmland in the entire United States.
THAT is how much money we have spent on welfare.
>> THAT is how much money we have spent on welfare.
Still paying “child support”, 151 years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
Will they ever grow up, learn to behave, get themselves employed, and move out of our basement?
I think between the cheap posts and two 50 foot rolls of the green fence I spent in the neighborhood of 60-80 dollars. I just zip tied the fence to the posts (I have thousands of zip ties laying around). I just roll it up and re-use it every year in the fall. I’ve gotten pretty good at timing it (I watch for the wind to shift from out of the northeast to out of the west mainly) - of course you would have to judge what wind direction causes you the most grief and place it when you see trouble on the horizon (you probably have a good idea about that already).
IIRC, I am covering about 60 feet with what I have purchased and I have extra posts and 40 feet of extra fence hanging around.
Some leaves still get through, but the work is minimal compared to what it used to be (mostly just mow them up with a push mower and dump them into the bin) or I dump them into a pile and shred them through a blower/vac/mulcher if I have more than will fit in my 90 gallon bin for one week.
In my case I would’ve easily paid 4 times what I did to deal with this recurring problem because of all my hip/spine issues, so YMMV. In the end, after just one year you may find it pays enough dividends in time spent alone that it is worth it - I know I did. I got everything I used at FleetFarm.
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