Merry Christmas and Lawn mowers

As I woke up this fine christmas morning to the sound of obnoxious
lawn mowers, not just one, but a whole battalion of them, I can't help
but wonder what happened to all the peace of quietness this day is
supposed to typify. Whats up with this riutal of mowing your lawn
early Xmas morning, in below freezing temperatures? Our whole family
was up angry and irritated at the high decibel noise outside our
bedroom windows. We live under a busy airport traffic pattern, and I
can't ever remember being woken up by airplane noise. But the same
neighborhood that complains about airplane noise seems to think
nothing of lawn mowers and leaf blowers that run for many hours
straight right outside their windows. It's much worse in the summer,
but it seems winter is no exception either.

I've always been tempted to do a noise pollution study comparing lawn
mowers to airplanes. This just might become my New Years resolution.

Andrew Sarangan wrote:
As I woke up this fine christmas morning to the sound of obnoxious
lawn mowers, not just one, but a whole battalion of them, I can't help
but wonder what happened to all the peace of quietness this day is
supposed to typify. Whats up with this riutal of mowing your lawn
early Xmas morning, in below freezing temperatures? Our whole family
was up angry and irritated at the high decibel noise outside our
bedroom windows. We live under a busy airport traffic pattern, and I
can't ever remember being woken up by airplane noise. But the same
neighborhood that complains about airplane noise seems to think
nothing of lawn mowers and leaf blowers that run for many hours
straight right outside their windows. It's much worse in the summer,
but it seems winter is no exception either.

I've always been tempted to do a noise pollution study comparing lawn
mowers to airplanes. This just might become my New Years resolution.



You obviously live too far south. The snow here in PA keeps the
lawnmowers silent for 6 months of the year at least.

Matt

Snowmobiles, snow blowers, chain saws clearing the trees that fell down due
to the ice, portable generators.

Bring back manual shovels in the winter, rakes in the summer and get rid of
the screaming leaf blowers.

Jet skis on the pond, 1,000,ooo watt amps on the beach for the concert.



"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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| Andrew Sarangan wrote:
| As I woke up this fine christmas morning to the sound of obnoxious
| lawn mowers, not just one, but a whole battalion of them, I can't help
| but wonder what happened to all the peace of quietness this day is
| supposed to typify. Whats up with this riutal of mowing your lawn
| early Xmas morning, in below freezing temperatures? Our whole family
| was up angry and irritated at the high decibel noise outside our
| bedroom windows. We live under a busy airport traffic pattern, and I
| can't ever remember being woken up by airplane noise. But the same
| neighborhood that complains about airplane noise seems to think
| nothing of lawn mowers and leaf blowers that run for many hours
| straight right outside their windows. It's much worse in the summer,
| but it seems winter is no exception either.
|
| I've always been tempted to do a noise pollution study comparing lawn
| mowers to airplanes. This just might become my New Years resolution.
|
|
|
| You obviously live too far south. The snow here in PA keeps the
| lawnmowers silent for 6 months of the year at least.
|
| Matt

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 08:28:55 -0800 (PST), Andrew Sarangan
wrote:

I've always been tempted to do a noise pollution study comparing lawn
mowers to airplanes. This just might become my New Years resolution.



Mowerlune? G

I live too far north for mowing on Christmas, but I'm with ya'!

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:16:06 -0600, "Jim Macklin"
wrote:



Bring back manual shovels in the winter,


Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

I'll push a reel mower, rake the leaves, and hand work my woodworking,
but the taking away my snowblower is fightin' words! G

On 2007-12-26 08:28:55 -0800, Andrew Sarangan said:


As I woke up this fine christmas morning to the sound of obnoxious
lawn mowers

We woke up to snow. Another white Christmas. The mud in my yard is
still knee deep, as it is for three or four houses on either side of
us. I now have a huge gravel dike running along the stream bank in my
yard, no grass and hardly any shrubs or roses left. We do have the
water and mud cleared out of the house now, mostly, and the driveway is
finally clear of the 18 inches of muck that was deposited on it.

Several of the neighbors are using portable generators or tractors,
trying to clear silt deposited almost a month ago.

Count your blessings.

--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

Jim Macklin wrote:
Snowmobiles, snow blowers, chain saws clearing the trees that fell down due
to the ice, portable generators.

Bring back manual shovels in the winter, rakes in the summer and get rid of
the screaming leaf blowers.

Jet skis on the pond, 1,000,ooo watt amps on the beach for the concert.

You are on a slippery slope, Jim. If you ban virtually any of the
above, then banning airplanes for noise is easy. Actually, even I can
easily make the case that chainsaws for clearing ice-felled trees is
more of an imperative than almost any GA flying that is done other than
organ transplants.

Matt

The standard square point dirt shovel is best for snow, it will also chop
ice. It won't break your back either. The big blade snow shovels work fine
with 1/2 inch of snow, but are nearly useless with a 2-3 foot drift.


"B A R R Y" wrote in message
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| On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:16:06 -0600, "Jim Macklin"
| wrote:
|
|
|
| Bring back manual shovels in the winter,
|
|
| Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
|
| I'll push a reel mower, rake the leaves, and hand work my woodworking,
| but the taking away my snowblower is fightin' words! G

sarcastic humor.



"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
...
| Jim Macklin wrote:
| Snowmobiles, snow blowers, chain saws clearing the trees that fell down
due
| to the ice, portable generators.
|
| Bring back manual shovels in the winter, rakes in the summer and get rid
of
| the screaming leaf blowers.
|
| Jet skis on the pond, 1,000,ooo watt amps on the beach for the concert.
|
| You are on a slippery slope, Jim. If you ban virtually any of the
| above, then banning airplanes for noise is easy. Actually, even I can
| easily make the case that chainsaws for clearing ice-felled trees is
| more of an imperative than almost any GA flying that is done other than
| organ transplants.
|
| Matt

"Jim Macklin" wrote in message
...
The standard square point dirt shovel is best for snow, it will also chop
ice. It won't break your back either. The big blade snow shovels work
fine
with 1/2 inch of snow, but are nearly useless with a 2-3 foot drift.
Not that I have had to shovel much snow here in NC, but I did living near
Lake Erie, long ago.

I like the new snow shovels with the funky handles that allow you to work
standing up straight. I have a very bad back, (two unsuccessful surgeries)
so that is the first consideration!
A spud bar and a flat scraper is what I use on ice.

Best of all, in NC, if you wait one or two days, 90% of the time, the snow
will remove itself!
--
Jim in NC