Letters to my Neighbors

by | Mar 31, 2016 | General | 6 comments

Love your neighbor as yourself; but don’t take down the fence. – Carl Sandburg

It is all about neighbors today – and how neighborly they sometimes are not.

 

Dear Next Door Neighbor,

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

 

All the Pachysandra is gone, with just a little sprig of myrtle left, and Preen®, lots and lots of Preen®. And yes, that is our foundation you see there!
Dear Neighbor,

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

 

 

Dear Neighbor,

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

 

 

This is really, really pitiful. These boxwood were so gorgeous and full. The birds loved them, heck WE loved them. The best privacy hedge ever… now they are just poor sad sticks. The one solace I have is at least they are growing a minute amount of greens on the sticks adjacent to my yard – the ones next to the weeding neighbor, no green at all. Karma is powerful! LOL
Dear Apparently Deaf Neighbor,

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…

 

Dear Week,

Is it just me, or are you just flying by??

Signed,

Happy Tomorrow is Friday

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6 Comments

  1. Honore
    Honore on March 31, 2016 at 8:21 AM

    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~

  2. Bonny
    Bonny on March 31, 2016 at 10:39 AM

    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!

  3. karen
    karen on March 31, 2016 at 10:53 AM

    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. 🙁

  4. Carole
    Carole on March 31, 2016 at 11:23 AM

    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!

  5. karen
    karen on April 1, 2016 at 9:05 AM

    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.

  6. Kym
    Kym on April 1, 2016 at 2:53 PM

    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.

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