Instead of working on my sweater as I was supposed to do, I have been sitting here researching the legality of owning farm animals within the Austin City limits. As it turns out, our property, being large, would allow us to have just about anything we want. I’m thinking a few chickens and a goat.

I’ve also been researching flowering ground covers for the front yard. Wow, there are some beautiful, low-growing plants to use to cover areas you don’t want to mow. I’m going to have a hard time picking one.

Why am I suddenly researching farm animals and ground cover? I am trying to find perfectly legal ways to be a pain in my neighbors’ asses. Seeing as the neighbors on the one side have chickens and hate mowing their lawn too, I don’t see them complaining about anything we might do, but I am willing to bet the crazy ones on the other side will have a coronary about it … which is, of course, the point. Yes, I know … I am EVIL, but they started it, and I am going to run with the idea of hating them and making their lives as miserable as I legally can. Take that, crappy neighbors!

Amazing how the people we thought were the coolest and most worthy of getting to know on our street ended up being the craziest and bitchiest, isn’t it? And they get crazier every month, I swear. In another few years, I suspect they may all be locked up for insanity or law-breaking.