Un-Chain Your Yard

Is this the best solution?

Sure, I understand that you live on the corner lot of a busy neighborhood and that people cut across your lawn.

Yeah, I get that that when people regularly walk across your yard they trample the grass you work hard to keep green.

And absolutely, I can appreciate that you do not want a pathway of dead grass, making for one big eye-sore on your front lawn.

But, is the rusty chain (pad-locked to a tree and tethered buy an equally rusty stake) any better?

What message do you send to your neighbors and community when you string rusty chains on your lawn?

Maybe instead of counteracting and blocking the "offer" of others you could accept and take the "conversation" some place new.

Why not create a pathway across the corner of your lawn (think "Better Homes and Gardens"; paving stones and all) to facilitate what people are naturally inclined to do?

Every day people say and do things we wish they wouldn't. They infringe on our space and trample things that are important to us. Our first reaction is often to "shut it down", and so, we do equally clumsy things...like wrap chains around trees.

Chains in our yards cut off community and deprive relationships of what they need to be nurtured.

So today, when someone takes a short-cut through your yard, resist the easy "solution" that chains relationships from developing, and instead, challenge yourself to create a new pathway that will cultivate the growth of a relationship.