Jen Sorensen for April 24, 2024

AND in our neighborhood (edge of town) “they” start burning brush as soon as it’s been dry for a few days so it can make the MOST effective smoke. And don’t forget putting in a few sprigs of poison oak / ivy. It’s not uncommon for the leaf blowers to be used as part of the process.

In my city, gas-powered leaf blowers have been banned. It forced the local gardening companies to purchase quieter (and definitely not as smelly) battery-powered blowers (and hedge trimmers). Much better now, and just another cost of doing business.

She’s not wrong.

Americans are lazy.

They took all the trees, put ’em in a tree museum

And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see ’em

What a load of garbage. Don’t want to use a leaf blower or any other gas powered yard tool, fine. No one is forcing you to.

how can a battery-powered leaf blower harm the environment ?

Rake & sweep. The exercise will do you well. Or better yet let it be. That’ll be better for the environment.

I’m wonder why Jen thinks this is Late Anthropocene.

There is a device that I found At Ace, and it’s called a rake.

One of my neighbors — God bless him — has a picture perfect lawn. He cuts the grass a couple times a week, which isn’t so bad. And then, he breaks out his leaf blower. For about half an hour he works sedulously to evict every blade of grass from his sidewalks. That, in itself, might not be so bad. Except that he CONSTANTLY works the throttle, up and down up and down, on the dammable thing the whole time. I always have a vision — or fantasy — of treating his leaf blower like Bluto did the gee-tar in “Animal House.”

The joys of living on a planet that’s going extinct due to your actions.

Quite the sh#t storm you created today Jen. Keep up the good work!

aris-troll-cles pumping out his usual line of horses***.

Please don’t feed the troll.

Why should one have to spring for noise reduction earpieces, because you’re too inconsiderate to use a rake or broom? The use of super-loud tools is emblematic of the path of our society in this age. “I don’t care, if I’m bothering you. I got the right to make as much noise as I want, if it makes my life easier.” Guy down the street from me mows his lawn next door to a church at 10:00 Sunday morning. One of our candidates for Prez promotes this as part of his brand.

Use a battery powered leaf blower.

Silly me, I thought this cartoon was going to be about cicadas.

Oh, just wait a few weeks – the cicadas will drown ‘em out! I’m one of the fortunate souls who can sleep through leaf blowers AND cicadas (and I sleep with windows open and a ceiling fan once the weather is warm — no whole house air for this boomer, just a small window unit that I didn’t even bother to hook up last year.)

Now if I could just count on waking up from an actual alarm, maybe I’d be on time for work more. I miss my human alarm clock so much (aka my Dearly Departed Husband.) Of course, I miss him for plenty of other reasons too. But I can just see him meeting up with my Dad in Heaven, and having a good laugh over my inability to become a morning person!

“Gee, Mr. Mc….how hard was it to wake TWS up for school in the mornings??”

I once watched a neighbour’s try to remove debris from his yard and front sidewalk after a windstorm with his 400 horse power, 120 decibel leaf blower. None of the big stuff was moving so he just stood there blowing what could have been removed in 5 minutes with a rake….

Palliative care.

When leaf-blowers proliferrated, I thought “What a waste of gas”. For a nation increasing it’s population of over-weights, it’s a real cop-out! Get some exercise! (I have ALWAYS raked my cut grass).

We have some nice fake grass for a lawn. It fooled a rabbit once. He was chewing the blades and looking confused. No tools needed.

Did everybody forget how to use rakes and brooms? The nice part about using them is that you can hear the birds sing while you’re working.

I know exactly how she feels. This is my neighborhood.

What all those leaf blowing idiots need to do is put the blower away and grab a rake, get some exercise you might live longer.