"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
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Unless we buy 100% certified organic food, we are eating products
that have been treated with chemicals by the hundreds of tons. I
never will spray my fruit trees though. One lady who wanted an apple
from my tree wouldn't let her kid pick any until I assured her they
hadn't been sprayed. Just about everything around us has one kind of
chemical or another in it.

Interesting last paragraph. Based on that logic, we're wide open to do
almost anything we want, simply because somebody else is doing it.
This reminds me of my mother's nagging: "Just because your friends do
stupid things, it doesn't mean YOU have to do them, too".

The whole post was interesting to me. My logic is impeccable. 1. I do
not like to use pesticides, herbicides, genetically spliced seeds, or
kill mice.. 2. I had my son spray as a last resort because I am
getting old and my yard was the scourge of the neighborhood and I didn't
want to spend the summer digging dandelions. 3. For once my son
offered to help; he has all the gear. It was either him or chemlawn.
They charge. 4. My next-door neighbor is trying to sell his house and
mine makes his look less desirable. Plus he wants too much for it. And
a whole bunch else that is not germane but has everything to do with
everything in my little corner of the world..

It is not stupid to want my yard to look better and I am not dumb as a
box of rocks. You have not gotten a letter from your city about your
weeds I'll wager. I have. Multiple times about multiple things. The
last one was about my trees. They have to have 8' clearance over the
sidewalk.. The last letter I got said if I let my grass get too high
again, I would have to come down to court. That scared me. So I,
naturally, had to conform with the crowd. ****es me off.

Now you don't want me to spray. You must belong to one of those
environmental groups.

Now let's call a truce and agree to disagree. You retract what you said
about my being as dumb as a box of rocks and I won't tell you you are
being a prick. OK?