Mowing
March 25th, 2007 - 12:52 pm
Lin said someone mowed their lawn yesterday evening while I was napping. I went outside and checked to see who had done it, because it would be the first appearance of a lawn mower on our street this year. It was Annoying Boy next door. I think I have figured something out about his bugging us all the time about mowing our yard. Neither of the adults living there have ever said anything to me personally about our yard, and I’ll ask Lin about that, but I don’t think they have ever said anything to Lin either. It’s always been Annoying Boy being annoying. I think he gets upset when his mom tells him to mow their lawn, and because he has to do theirs, he thinks we should have to do ours. So his annoying behavior on the state of our yard may not be coming from his mom at all (though it still could be, who knows). All I really know is the next time he gets in my face about our yard, I am going to point at all the other yards on our street and tell him to go pester them about not mowing. He doesn’t, you know. Just us, and it certainly isn’t just us that doesn’t mow regularly around here.
I might also mention to him he could do something about the stacks of junk in their front yard. We have bulky trash pick up on our street about once every three months. The crazy people next door start their pile of large junk as soon as the previous pile is picked up, so there’s this huge mess of junk sitting there growing for three months, and this happens year round. I’d rather see unmowed lawns than piles of trash. Call me silly.
Aaaah. Spring. The time of year when all us cranky hermits step out our front doors for a few weeks, encounter our neighbors, have dramatic disagreements on the state of things, and then return to the comfort of our homes once it starts getting too hot to be outside. 
I am still seriously considering the Southwestern rock garden with cacti and natural prairie grasses for our front yard. I might even throw in a few pink flamingos, just for the fun of it. When we came to look at the house the first time, there actually were some pink flamingos in the front yard. I wonder if the previous owners had them there to annoy the crazy people next door. 
4 Responses to “Mowing”
I would hate having them as neighbors. I wouldn’t allow him on my property. Who does he think he is!? Pfft
I’ve decided to stop putting up with it. I’m always so nice to people, even assholes, but I have had enough. Every time I step out either of my doors, there he is yapping about something. I’m just going to start being rude. I’m on my property, I can be rude if I want to be.
Guess there is no chance of ablock party on your street, huh?
Our first house was a dreaded corner lot, small house, acres of grass! I hate lawns. Our sity place had a tiny lawn, still you needed to cut it. I still hated lawns. Our Nelson place had a small city lot and it was all garden, I loved it! Don’t even own a mower! Hobbit Hall’s curent incarnation actually doesn’t have any property to speak of, so the garden is all in pots. This is the best. I water, that’s it. Not even a weed to pull. Grass, that’s what other people do all weekend.
I vote for cacti and desert coloured pebbles, suculents and a patch of ground cover. It’s a pain to put in, but if you do it all at once with a backhoe and the trucks dropping the stuff off, you’re done.
Of course, you could make AB a special bowl of chilli that would stop him for good and save the landscaping costs.
(Could you make your dream garden on Vue? Does it give you that kind of control?)
I don’t even want to imagine a block party on this block. We all get along best when we don’t speak to each other. We all seemed to get along when we first moved in, but then there was an argument about curbs, sidewalks and drainage being put in (still can’t believe there were people against it). I think there was more to it than that, but being new to the block, I wasn’t privy to the facts. Now, we just wave and smile at each other from out own yards. Except for the crazies next door who insist on making my life a living hell.
Lin isn’t sure about the rock and cacti garden, but I think it would be great for low maintenance and it goes with the house too. Not to mention a few large, spiny, and well-placed cacti near the offending property line might make it more difficult for AB to amble about in my yard.
Yes, Vue would be great for designing a garden. I’ve been thinking of recreating the whole property as closely as possible and then going crazy with it.