Herbicide Homicide #2
OK, I actually called the city yesterday to find out what happened to the field behind the house. Turns outt our suspicions were correct, and they apparently sprayed Round-Up (tm) weedkiller on the entire set of fields. So now instead of a beautiful field of waving green grass, it is now a dessicated wasteland that looks like it was either hit with a nuclear bomb or is a potential recipient of a super-fund clean-up grant. Not sure where all the birds, lizards, snakes, insects, pollinating bees, gophers, squirrels and mice that used to live in those fields will go.
Thier reason for this scorched-earth policy? It 'cost too much" to mow the fields each year. So they solved the problem by killing everything. Words cannot express how pissed I am about this. The same city that becomes hysterical if your lawn doesn't look like something from a Hallmark card seems to have no problem denuding acres of grass to save some money. Is it any wonder I'm such a misanthrope?
Thier reason for this scorched-earth policy? It 'cost too much" to mow the fields each year. So they solved the problem by killing everything. Words cannot express how pissed I am about this. The same city that becomes hysterical if your lawn doesn't look like something from a Hallmark card seems to have no problem denuding acres of grass to save some money. Is it any wonder I'm such a misanthrope?