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abaucom21 · 06-01-2014, 12:45 PM

'Supersport', pool is looking good and please keep the pics coming. What are your thoughts on landscaping? In your climate would think you will need a little shade somewhere. Ruby, sounds like you really enjoy working in the yard. I have a cousin (she is like my sister) in Florence SC who sends me pics of her yard and it is a work of art.

As for me, when I was 18 and left for college in Miami, vowed I would never mow another lawn (and have never mowed again). At age 14 parents retired to NC and had a 1/2 acre lot. At first it was a treat as I grew up mostly in officer's Air Force housing or at times when my parents were separated a city apartment in San Francisco. NC, I helped plant hedges around the parameter, a few magnolia trees, some fruit trees, climbing vines, what fun. Stopped being fun to maintain over the years and those hot humid summers mowing grass, and clipping back what nature intended. However, must say that after parents pasted away and I sold the house in the mid 1990s those hedges were 6-feet high and the magnolia trees about 40-feet high.

Only once as an adult did I attempt to alter nature. For four years in the late 80s early 90s when I lived in NYC I bought a weekend summer cabin in the Catskills just outside of Phoenicia NY about a 3-1/2 hour drive from midtown. Perfect weekend retreat from the hot summer city. Heavily wooded, back to nature. Of course first thing I did was lay stone paths, added landscape lighting, new deck, and planted 100s of bulbs, etc. Learned quickly not to mess with nature. As soon as the bulbs sprouted, varmints ate everything. The new deck was just the size for one bear to coming knocking on my door in the middle of the night which would freak out the pets. I traveled with my city cats and one small dog and purpose of the deck was so they could go outside (supervised) and enjoy a little sun. First fall, falling leaves scared the city pets and they wanted nothing to do with nature after that.

I learned that I slept better with city sounds like trash trucks and sirens. Bug noise like crickets kept me awake as I was waiting for them to go silent like in every monster movie (bugs & birds always go silent before something bad is going to happen). Now I live in an urban high-rise near a major hospital. I can see the green stuff from a distance, and sirens and emergency flight helicopters lull me to sleep.

06-01-2014, 12:45 PM	#32029
abaucom21 Drives: 2011 2LT White, 1966 TBird conv. Join Date: May 2010 Location: Ottawa Ontario Posts: 682	'Supersport', pool is looking good and please keep the pics coming. What are your thoughts on landscaping? In your climate would think you will need a little shade somewhere. Ruby, sounds like you really enjoy working in the yard. I have a cousin (she is like my sister) in Florence SC who sends me pics of her yard and it is a work of art. As for me, when I was 18 and left for college in Miami, vowed I would never mow another lawn (and have never mowed again). At age 14 parents retired to NC and had a 1/2 acre lot. At first it was a treat as I grew up mostly in officer's Air Force housing or at times when my parents were separated a city apartment in San Francisco. NC, I helped plant hedges around the parameter, a few magnolia trees, some fruit trees, climbing vines, what fun. Stopped being fun to maintain over the years and those hot humid summers mowing grass, and clipping back what nature intended. However, must say that after parents pasted away and I sold the house in the mid 1990s those hedges were 6-feet high and the magnolia trees about 40-feet high. Only once as an adult did I attempt to alter nature. For four years in the late 80s early 90s when I lived in NYC I bought a weekend summer cabin in the Catskills just outside of Phoenicia NY about a 3-1/2 hour drive from midtown. Perfect weekend retreat from the hot summer city. Heavily wooded, back to nature. Of course first thing I did was lay stone paths, added landscape lighting, new deck, and planted 100s of bulbs, etc. Learned quickly not to mess with nature. As soon as the bulbs sprouted, varmints ate everything. The new deck was just the size for one bear to coming knocking on my door in the middle of the night which would freak out the pets. I traveled with my city cats and one small dog and purpose of the deck was so they could go outside (supervised) and enjoy a little sun. First fall, falling leaves scared the city pets and they wanted nothing to do with nature after that. I learned that I slept better with city sounds like trash trucks and sirens. Bug noise like crickets kept me awake as I was waiting for them to go silent like in every monster movie (bugs & birds always go silent before something bad is going to happen). Now I live in an urban high-rise near a major hospital. I can see the green stuff from a distance, and sirens and emergency flight helicopters lull me to sleep.