Surrounded by neighbors with varying degrees of “anality” regarding their lawns can be a challenge…if you let it.

Old Red and Betty that used to live next to me spent hours daily on theirs, Red would ride around the lawn with a newspaper boy’s bag full of shop rags and toss one out everytime he’d spot a weed. The yard would look like a tornado had hit…then she’d get down and crawl around on her hands and knees spreading apart then blades of grass with a weed spade and a spray bottle picking up the rags and pulling weeds…this was a 4 acre lot, he’s gone now, did a face plant from his walker inspecting along their driveway before they moved…had a spray bottle in the carry basket on the walker…it’d take him 30-40 minutes to go get the Mail. He’d mess himself if he saw the “Fairy Garden” the new owners have. Grass is a 2 feet long tall and they have a geometric pattern mowed thru it. At least since Red moved on the choking smell of 2-4D every other week has gone away. Still miss his screaming at Betty….he was deaf as a rock so yelled at her…”.B-e-t-t-y!….I’m hungry…get in here and feed me…..it’s one o’clock.” He sprayed about a foot into our garden one time, killing something the Doll had started from seeds…I told him if he did that again she’d come over and shoot him….chewed my a$$ once because I mowed and had the discharge in his direction…ah yes, neighbors…won’t even get into Mullet on the other side…

"the choking smell of 2-4D" -- nasty stuff and the other stuff in that is really seriously nasty