What am i missing?

[MossRoad]

 

[MoKelly]

I own 14 acres which is 5 acres of lawn, 2 acres of pond and 7 acres of woods and swamp. I mow 3 acres which is the land around the house, garage and barn plus I mow 2 more acres beyond the backyard. Takes me 2 hours a week. I like having long views of manicured lawn from every window. I'm in the processing clearing out some more woods so the view from the house to the pond 150 ft away is wide open and unobstructed except for a few large trees. This will add another acre to my mowing. The forest will reclaim unmowed land within 2 years.

Having a lawn buffer keeps the bears, bobcats and coyotes away from the house, my livestock and pets. Plus mowing is very relaxing, and as I mow I get to enjoy the view of my property and it reminds me why I moved out to the country in the first place.

Very nice. Pretty lake.

We have a river as the property border but I can’t get a view from the house - too many trees.

 

[goeduck]

This is a view of my back yard from my deck. Never needs mowing or weeding.

 

[Wakey]

Can you cast a line from the deck?

 

[goeduck]

Can you cast a line from the deck?

Actually yes, but from the dock is an easier retrieval. The house is about 20 ft above high tide.

 

[Rowdy Redneck]

We have six acres of grass. It's a nice place to play ball games, shoot fireworks, and just goof off. Mowing it sucks though, even with my fancy, new (to me) zero turn.

 

[BoylermanCT]

Very nice. Pretty lake.

We have a river as the property border but I can’t get a view from the house - too many trees.

A chainsaw can fix that!

 

[Sigarms]

Mowing it sucks though, even with my fancy, new (to me) zero turn.

Back surgery stopped my long distance running. I use to do a lot of thinking about work and getting away from work while running.

I've found the mowing has kind have taken the replace of my "down time" thinking when when doing something I like.

The irony is I use to HATE mowing as a kid. But that was with a pushmower.

 

[ning]

We have a brief lawn, and mow the (native grasses) field in the general vicinity of the house and orchard.

If we didn't mow, the native grasses would be 2-4’ high in no time would be a significant fire danger, and they also harbor ticks - between the mowing and our roaming chickens, our cats don't need to wear tick collars and they almost never get a tick (I pull off one lightly-attached tick per cat about every 3 months).

It helps that it's so dry here that I have a brief mowing season!

 

[Torvy]

Back surgery stopped my long distance running. I use to do a lot of thinking about work and getting away from work while running.

Even at my best, long distance running was 200 meters. Not a lot of thinking going on in those 23 seconds.