does anyone else have to choose between riding and yard work?

[Iahawk]

I feel I do every time...today is a perfect example. Beautiful, sunny, blue skies and 71 f  (21.6 c). I spent a leisurely morning with newspaper and coffe and radio, nursing a minor headache from a few too many beers the night before, then ran some errands to the stores...and then spent the entire afternoon mowing and trimming my yard (large yard, 50+ trees, lots of mulch beds, etc). I was in the yard from about 2pm until 4:45. Now I'm beat...and need to shower...then it's grilling out with the family.

The one big thing missing is riding! It seems they both occupy the exact same 'free time' window in my day. I seem to only do one or the other (and the yard has suffered in recent years).

anybody else feel this way?

[Stig / Major Tom]

Nah, can't mow in the dark or in the rain either....that's riding time baby!
🙃

But, I know what you mean. I have to attend to my MIL's yard as well every week. Before my FIL passed away last September  (stroke and covid) he told me to buy a good self-propelled walk-behind Honda from Lowes on his dime. I did ...makes it a lot easier...and I don't have to load mine into my truck every time.
Stig

[aschrauth]

I long for the days of mowing the grass, Now that I live in a condo it gets done for me. Once I save up enough I think I am going to get a house.

[randyo]

I went for a ride last Friday, over the weekend, the Mrs & I did yardwork, we have to get ready for a new package of bees, starting up being beekeepers again, our bees died over the winter, not the first time

[Stig / Major Tom]

I went for a ride last Friday, over the weekend, the Mrs & I did yardwork, we have to get ready for a new package of bees, starting up being beekeepers again, our bees died over the winter, not the first time

Bless you and your bees. We need 'em!

Stig

[randyo]

Bless you and your bees. We need 'em!

Stig

I started keeping bees back in 2010, got them for pollination, couldn't even grow zucchinis. I had no clue how much honey they could produce, 2011, the first year we harvested honey, we took 25 gallons, still leaving em 10-15 for winter, not all years have been that good. You should have seen our Cortland apple tree, barely producing, to bushels, garden the best I ever had

fwiw, not much is involved in keeping bees, less than man 40hrs work / year / hive.  as a team, the Mrs & I each do about half, some of the work is in the kitchen, making sugar water to feed em when flowers are not blossoming, spinning honey in our extractor, or just inspecting the hive,  bees forage up to 2 miles from the hive, you could even keep a hive on the roof of a 50 story building in a city, assuming local zoning allows it

my next adventure will be vermiculture

[Stig / Major Tom]

Verminculture!!??
Raising rats?!
Beef prices have plateaued.....hopefully.
Hang in there just a little longer!


Stig

[Neil955i]

No Hawk, I have to admit I have a guy come in to do mine. I’ve never enjoyed gardening and for me it’s money well spent. Also if it allows more time riding that’s a win win for me.

[randyo]

Verminculture!!??
Raising rats?!
Beef prices have plateaued.....hopefully.
Hang in there just a little longer!


Stig

no, vermi-culture, worm farming, probably raise red wigglers, they are more productive than night crawlers,   another way of increasing vegetable garden production