Great subject to listen too, thanks. 

Well, there's a limit to how high my riding mower will cut. Plus there are other issues besides drought survival:

1. I need to cut the mesquite tree seedlings down; they are all over the yard, they are very thorny, and rugged. They will take over and produce trees if you let them. These young trees are seldom over 6" off the ground; they lean way over, no more than a 45 degree angle from the ground. Sometimes as little as 5 degrees off the ground.

2. We have chiggers around here, plus other bugs like fleas, etc. which only bite your ankles. The only solution is to have low grass, so they can't jump onto you as easily. Also, mosquitoes MOSTLY live and produce in such long grass, with many drips of water, especially every morning. Almost every morning in the summer the grass is lousy with dew.

That having been said, I tried not murdering my grass this year, and I think I succeeded. I mowed it on a higher setting. But I think what really saved my grass was having such a wet year. On the downside, I had to mow/weedwhack much more, and never really had that "season off" where I could focus on other things for months.

Problem is the boomer generation abused the retirement and social security system in so much excess for themselves, that they broke the system for the proceeding generations, who are now burdened with paying off for them to live in excess until they go to the grave. Their greed and sense of entitlement ruined the entire retirement system as we know it.

I don't have a problem with retiring or not working past 65, I think we all would "want" that, but this attitude is dangerous to our future families right now. 
I think we are gonna go out fighting, and it's going to be inevitable. That's how we need to look at things going forward. No time to be comfortable or lazy, wanting that fake American dream. 

Pope Pius X described 'Modernism' in Encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis: “And now, can anybody who takes a survey of the whole system be surprised that We should define it as the synthesis of all heresies?”

What did he mean by this?

Well, the word 'synthesis' means 'the combining of separate elements to form a coherent whole'. However, Pius X was not saying that Modernism was a profession of every single historical heresy, something mentally impossible, since many of them are mutually exclusive. Rather, he was describing a system that "lay the ax" to the very root of the faith like each of these historical heresies did.

So what is this 'system'?

This system is an alliance between faith and false (worldly) philosophy; an alliance between Christianity and Gnosticism; an alliance between the Tree of Life and the Tree of knowledge. Show me a Christian who combines his faith with Descartes or Kant or Hegel or any of those western philosophers that influenced the like of Loisy and Co. and I will show you a Modernist.

James Hitchcock in his book 'The New Enthusiasts' highlights certain Gnostic traits that make-up this system of Modernism: The affirmation of a mission to realize the true nature of Christianity, a profession of a knowledge of Christianity superior to that of its ordinary adherents, downgrading the power of the sacraments, projecting a bias towards an invisible community of believers, giving primacy to human desire, human preference, human will and imagination which results in the relaxation towards occasions of sin and chastity. In other words, a so-called evolutionary development of truth and knowledge by using worldly knowledge to "understand" the depths of Christianity better; to use worldly means to teach the gospels to modern man. It is an satanic illusion.

Writes the ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ pedo Sir Frances Bacon: "...a depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."
Francis Bacon is believed to be the father of Rosicrucianism; a branch of Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ. 

When Fr. MacDonald talks about the 'conciliar church', it is this system of Modernism that has permeated Christ's Church and influenced the hierarchy.

^^^

More gaslighting, they're the very ones they're trying to target. These (( people)) are so predictable.