Much needed rain
Well, we're finally getting some much needed rain. Dave will be pissed because he'll have to mow the grass.
We have about 10 square feet of grass. Most if it's under our deck. The neighbors hate us because we mow maybe twice a season. Our front "patch" is also overgrown, but it doesn't get too bad because I never rake the leaves out of it. I keep telling myself that this is a kind of natural weed surpressor. The real deal: we're renting, and we work too much to care.
Our next door neighbor is a doctor who's also in the National Guard. She lives by herself, except for a few weeks a year when her parents come to visit from Florida. She has 47 bird feeders on her deck, which she relentlessly fills with crappy birdseed so we only get crappy birds. For years she's had a crappier looking yard than ours - crazy tomato plants growing willy-nilly under her deck, a totally overgrown front lawn, and god help us, the birds.
(Unhappily, cheap birdseed also attracts rats, I found out).
Anyway, the woman's crazy, but because of her...um...idiosyncracies, we've been enjoying relative refuge from the fascist homeowners' association that rules our development with an iron fist. Sure, we can't get pool passes, but that pool is full of pee. I swear it is.
Anyway, she cleaned the place up.
It took her weeks to do it, and there were mounds and mounds of garbage in front of her house for three weeks in a row, but she did it. The front lawn is mulched, the back is cleaned out. Everything's great.
Fuck.
This is making us look bad. I just know it.
Dave! To the mower!!
We have about 10 square feet of grass. Most if it's under our deck. The neighbors hate us because we mow maybe twice a season. Our front "patch" is also overgrown, but it doesn't get too bad because I never rake the leaves out of it. I keep telling myself that this is a kind of natural weed surpressor. The real deal: we're renting, and we work too much to care.
Our next door neighbor is a doctor who's also in the National Guard. She lives by herself, except for a few weeks a year when her parents come to visit from Florida. She has 47 bird feeders on her deck, which she relentlessly fills with crappy birdseed so we only get crappy birds. For years she's had a crappier looking yard than ours - crazy tomato plants growing willy-nilly under her deck, a totally overgrown front lawn, and god help us, the birds.
(Unhappily, cheap birdseed also attracts rats, I found out).
Anyway, the woman's crazy, but because of her...um...idiosyncracies, we've been enjoying relative refuge from the fascist homeowners' association that rules our development with an iron fist. Sure, we can't get pool passes, but that pool is full of pee. I swear it is.
Anyway, she cleaned the place up.
It took her weeks to do it, and there were mounds and mounds of garbage in front of her house for three weeks in a row, but she did it. The front lawn is mulched, the back is cleaned out. Everything's great.
Fuck.
This is making us look bad. I just know it.
Dave! To the mower!!
posted by babyoog at 9:06 PM
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2 Comments:
we ripped up the grass and put down big pavers, just paved all that hassel away.
... take all the trees, and put'em in a tree museum ...
you lazy slob.
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