On Fri, 31 May 2019 10:34:43 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Friday, May 31, 2019 at 1:09:28 PM UTC-4, jmcquown wrote:
>> On 5/31/2019 12:44 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> > On Friday, May 31, 2019 at 11:17:12 AM UTC-4, jmcquown wrote:
>> >> On 5/31/2019 9:00 AM, Gary wrote:
>> >>> jmcquown wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> A revolutionary reversal would be to make people get up off the couch
>> >>>> and walk across the room to change the channel on the TV.
>> >>>
>> >>> In the early 60's, *I* was the tv remote control for my Dad.
>> >>> "Gary, put it on channel 5 please."
>> >>>
>> >> That's what kids are for. That, and mowing the lawn. LOL
>> >>
>> >> Jill
>> >
>> > A lawn service is cheaper.
>> >
>> > Cindy Hamilton
>> >
>> My parents didn't pay me or my brothers to mow the lawn or do chores
>> when we were kids.
>>
>> Jill
>
>It costs a ton of money to raise kids (more than $200,000). It's cheaper to hire a lawn service.
>
><http://money.com/money/4629700/child-raising-cost-department-of-agriculture-report/>
>
>Cindy Hamilton

That would depend on the lawn... it takes both of us two days every
week to mow and we know all the topography of where we can mow
according to weather conditions and where every rock is. .. and that's
considering ideal weather. It would cost a fortune to have a lawn
service here, and unless they lived here they couldn't do a good job.
We would have to have a couple three kids to keep up the lawn and we
are well past that age. We do maintenence ourselves and hire people
for big jobs like felling large dead trees and stump grinding. With
all the rain this spring I don't know when we will catch up... hoping
to get the vegetable garden in next weekend, too wet for tilling and
much too wet for a 4 yard truck load of top soil to get in. We take
it one day at at a time. there's no way to guess the weather.