Frazz by Jef Mallett for July 03, 2020

Well technically, the reason the grass goes dormant is the same reason those guys mow without a shirt.

We let our grass go dormant because the old guy doesn’t want to deal with mowing it, and it’s damned expensive to pay for both the watering AND the mowing.

Not too many July/August showers here. I won’t sprinkle what nature wants to turn brown except for a few flowers and shrubs.

The old guys mow because the young ones are too entitled to be bothered with it.

Lawns are stupid. They cost money, time, and effort, for very little return.

It might be under the heading of injudicious adaptation, but it also is filed under independence and self-motivation. Some age groups don’t get that.

They all say that the brown grass is just dormant – that it will come back. When ours goes fully brown, it is fully dead.

We live out in the country (less so today then 30 years ago) and my neighbor has 2-3 acres of putting green yard. A green desert. Mows, gets a drink of water, repeats. All. Summer. Long. I swear, during the winter he must have a VR mowing program.

AVERT YOUR EYES, UNAMED CHILD I KINDA DON’T CARE ABOUT.

How do you make it move like that ?

Boy there is a lot of material in this one! Should old men be allowed to go topless? Should trim young men? Should obese young men? Should women feel entitled to same, and then, same questions as above for men? Should grass be banned? Should gas mowers be banned? Are electric mowers that much greener over their life cycle? Should we stop tapping the aquifers? The mind reels… all that in 3 cels and 4 bubbles!

I hope I don’t hurl. NASTY

I love the smell of fresh cut grass

And yet, the old guys have to look at young guys shirtless during the same kinds of weather. How do you think they feel?

Does nature cause old, out of shape, ill tempered cranks, to keep reading comics they hate?

my cats do the same thing for me

Our eight-by-twelve-foot front yard grows a lush crop of weeds every year. Our son (now 36) comes by and attacks it with a Weedwacker at intervals of two or three weeks.

Gee, I hope Jef doesn’t grow old – he’s in for some surprises otherwise.

In first world countries, humans do not live in or with nature. They do all in their power to subvert it for their benefit and comfort.

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Frazz9 hrs · There’s a central passage in Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle — I don’t know if it’s central to Cat’s Cradle, but to me it’s central to just about anything — that reads,

“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;Man got to sit and wonder ‘why, why, why?’.Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;Man got to tell himself he understand.”

And certain old guys got to mow the lawn with their shirt off, Vonnegut did not add. But it fits, if only in the sense that it’s one of those things where it is what it is, and there’s not a thing you can do about it. At least that’s what I tell myself when I’m too weary to think about it anymore.

Ride ’im, mow boy!

Golf courses are the biggest waste of water.

First point: this Spring i put off mowing for weeks so i could enjoy the wildflowers. The problem is that tall grass makes a haven for mosquitoes. Once it was cut the population dropped. And of course there’s the tick factor as well.

Second point: as a septuagenarian my skin has become translucent and holds little tan. But i still enjoy being in shorts and a T-shirt the way i have all my life. It doesn’t bother me if it reminds younger people that they’re going to wind up looking the same one day.