It is all about neighbors today – and how neighborly they sometimes are not.
While I might appreciate your weeding the plant bed adjacent to your property – it actually is our yard and it was not weeds.
Signed,
Missing My Pachysandra
I love that your home and yard are a place where all the neighborhood kids like to play – during the day… However, basketball at midnight on a weekday…not so much.
Signed,
Tired at Work
We are confused about what you are trying to do with the bushes along our property lines. We really liked them when they were tall, and full, and… well, private. Did you mean to kill them? Is it a new form of art?
Signed,
Confused and Exposed
Your girls are just darling; their swing, however…not so much. The squeak is worse than nails on a chalkboard – and it is perpetually squeaking. When they swing. When the wind blows. In the middle of the night. I have a small suggestion for you… WD-40. I can leave a can on your porch if you promise to use it!
Signed,
We Can Hear Just Fine
And, finally…
Is it just me, or are you just flying by??
Signed,
Happy Tomorrow is Friday
Speechless! Oh my!
I too am looking forward to a new month, tho’ I can’t complain about March…other than it seemed to be interminably long. Happy April to us both and good luck with the neighbors…
Cheers~
Dear Kat’s Neighbors,
I am astounded and appalled! I have plenty of real weeds here for you to pull, along with trees and bushes that really need trimming, and lots of free WD-40. Good fences make good neighbors, and so does some lovely greenery, quiet swings, and basketball at appropriate times. Please cease and desist!
SMH!!! What is wrong with people? A couple of nice days and they destroy their AND YOUR gardens and boxwoods? Eye-yi-yi. Perhaps you could stealthily apply some WD-40 to their swing? For your own sanity?!? Wow. Just wow. 🙁
My parents had a beautiful hedge of Bridal Wreath between our property and a neighbor’s and every spring he would go out and hack it down. It belonged to us but it didn’t matter how often my mother said something, he did it anyway. So frustrating! I can’t believe someone pulled out all of your pachysandra and cut back the boxwood so completely!
We have a neighbor who does the same to the boxwood hedge between our yards. and one year he sprayed them with something that killed my perennial garden – every single thing. We have since put up a fence between our yards. It keeps the dog in and me from freaking out over the neighbor’s antics.
Oh, Kathy! Your gardening neighbors are . . . surprisingly similar to my own. Except mine grow bindweed — ON PURPOSE. And have a swimming pool — and a daughter we’ve nicknamed “The Screamer.”
Happy weekend.