I hate Tuesdays in the summer at my apartment complex because that is normally when the landscaping company comes in. The lawn mowers and blowers are so loud it is ridiculous. To make things worse, the company milks the situation often by mowing and blowing the same plot twice. There is no apartment management representative around to observe what is going on. Of course, were I working, I wouldn’t be present to observe the shenanigans myself…
Last Tuesday, I watched three guys, two with man portable gas powered blowers on their backs and another guy with a wheeled gas powered blower clearing the debris out of the parking lot, onto the dog walking/pooping area below my balcony, and then into the tree line. The blowers are so powerful that they flatten out the grass for about a 1 x 2 foot area.
In truth, I bet the three guys manning these gas powered tools could have raked all the debris to the tree line sans noise and petroleum burnt pollution in the same time it took them to blow the debris away. Meanwhile they stirred up a dust and pollen storm that forced me to close my balcony door and apartment windows.
Is it time to get back to the basics of yard work and employ some college kids for the summer? I don’t want to put any “immigrants” out of work but WTF?