old idaho guy wrote:
When I was working and my wife commented on how much better some of the neighbor's yards looked so much better than ours, I told her those were retired guys who had time to keep their lawns up. Now that I am retired and she mentions the good looking lawns, I say those are retired guys who don't own an RV
;)
Sounds like a good reason to me. I'm all for rock-scaped yards myself. Tell her you need one of those zen Japanese rock gardens. If you're gone a couple of weeks you won't have to hire someone to water and cut the grass.
Check this out
http://www.gardenlandscapeideas.org/ideas/preview/5827/japaneserockgardenpicturesjapanesekaresansuirockgarden.html