"I see you have a problem..."

No HOA here, or HIA, either. I forget which is the good one and which is the bad one, but I've been a member of the good one at a past residence.

One of my neighbors has a lot of birdhouses around his garden. Bluebirds, finches, etc. The neighbors seem to like that. I think they'll like the bees and whatnot after the wild meadow (hopefully) attracts them along with other insects, birds, rabbits, etc. A couple of neighbors have good sized gardens, bigger than I'll have. One sells blackberries to a local cafe.

I need to build the vegetable garden (deer, as always, wherever I go, ugh), rig up the box blade on the tractor and start creating the little meadows. Almost finished interior painting. Solar panels in late summer. At least I don't have groundhogs here. Hopefully.

Not following anyone, not trying to make my neighbors fall in line.

Have you seen the lawns that have the perfect crosshatch pattern? I recently found out that they're made by an accessory that you can buy and attach to your mower. I thought they were just a side effect of certain mowers. I had no idea that you had to pay extra for them.

I've seen a few lawns where the mower left a pattern in the route it took. Even in what little lawn I have, the route of the mower leaves traces. But I still use a push mower for everything I mow and I probably follow a slightly different route each time. And my "lawn" is too dappled with little hills, weeds, and native plants.

I'd like to see the attachment on the mower that is used to create the patterns.

I mow with a Kuboata tractor, with a behind mower. Mostly to mow the weeds on the septic field. Nearly everything else is for growing food or is still forest. Works for me. I grow food maybe 2 acres of our land.

Pffft…the stupid squirrels would probably chew their tanks apart like they do to my garbage cans.

I think someone in my neighborhood went to holy war with the squirrels. I haven't really seen them around for months.