It's all relative

I've always been a bit envious of the Southern Arizona yards, because they don't have lawns to mow — just rocks. Well, not just rocks, but decorative landscape rocks if you will. (Back home, we call it gravel.)

Back home, we fertilize, water, and mow the lawn once or twice a week and if you're really ambitious you even trim it. Well, today I found out that those decorative landscape rocks aren't maintenance free.

Down here they have to get out the leaf blower and "blow the rocks" to get the leaves and debris off of the decorative landscape rocks…and then they get the rake out and "round-up" the wild and defiant ones that escaped to the sidewalk or driveway.

Growing up, we used to have "grass fights"…and which of you haven't? We'd pull a bunch of grass and then throw it at each other.

Now, I understand why there is a higher per capita rate of head injuries for Southern Arizona children. With no grass in the front yard what is the alternative?