[blparent] Yard Work (was Advice: buying a house)

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Too funny.  Sounds like your friend ought to be hired by the landscaping 
company that does the lawns here.  My grass has a bunch of big old burnt 
spots, and the homeowners' association wanted to tell me it was my dog that 
had caused them with her urine.  They wanted me to give her some kind of a 
pill that would neutralize her urine.  But the truth is that they dumped a 
bunch of fertilizer on the grass and didn't bother to spread it around, so 
it burned the spots where it was concentrated.  I do know that I could have 
learned to handle yard work if it had been important enough to me.  But it 
wasn't something I was very interested in, beyond some potted plants on the 
porch, and tomatoes and strawberries I have in those upside down doohickeys 
that you hang up from the rafters.  So when I went to buy a house, I 
deliberately looked for a place with grounds maintenance, such as it is.

Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, 
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of 
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of 
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist

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From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 9:49 PM
To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Advice: buying a house

> My friend in MA used to cut her own lawn till she cut off one too many
> sprinkler heads and her hubby decided it was safer for all if someone else
> did it. ha ha
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Jennifer Jackson
> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 2:13 AM
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Advice: buying a house
>
> There are people who are blind that do the work on their houses and do all
> of the yard work including mowing. If you are interested in knowing more
> check out the blind handyman or the blind gardening lists.
>
> I have mown my own lawn, but prefer not to. :)
>
>
> Jennifer
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Sheila Leigland
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 5:35 PM
> To: Jo Elizabeth Pinto; Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Advice: buying a house
>
> Finding someone to do yard work isn't easy. Friends and acquaintances want
> to help but it doesn't usually last long and you have to go by there
> scedules or lack there of and paying for a professional company for yard
> work is expensive and umfortunately some don't always do their best work
> because they figure you don't always know what is going on. I would like 
> to
> live in a world where things are done because you pay good money instead 
> of
> finding out that because of blindness you are taken advantage of but
> sometimes things like that do happen so we have to be vigilant.I'm not a
> pesimist but I've learned to be realistic.
>
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