I never thought I would say this, but maybe Gwyneth has the right idea.
She and her husband are buying the house next door to their own multi-million dollar home. I suppose for privacy reasons, though I don't know if they will rent it out or just leave it vacant. Perhaps it's for guests? This is the 4th home they have bought on the street, and it appears that they eventually intend to own them all.
Normally there are all kinds of comments I could make about this sort of thing, but with the impending return of our own grouchy neighbors, I actually think this is pretty genius. My neighbors are snow birds so they spend half the year in a warmer climate (and this year they left early! woo hoo!) but usually they are back by the end of the month. The husband is a pretty nice guy, keeps to himself, and he wasn't mad when we dropped a tree limb into his yard. But the wife- is kind of a nosey busybody. Also, she is very very into gardening and I? Am not. She is constantly complaining about our weeds or our trees or some dumb thing. She's your typical retiree with lots of time on her hands. In the winter we pray that this is the year they finally decide to move to AZ permanently and sell their house here. In the summer, we hide out when she is out in her garden and try to avoid her as much as possible. I am sure that even with my brand new landscaping plan (thanks Landscapapalooza!) for the one corner of my yard that it won't be enough for her. Ah well, I am not gardening for her, I am gardening so that I have something nice to look at outside my window. I am actually pretty excited to have some idea of plants and what to get. Even if I don't get it all done this year, at least now I have a vision.
You try to guess who is more famous, and there are varying degrees of difficulty. I did pretty well, but I imagine that Kashka is going to be able to kick some butt in the "Who's that guy?" game. I sucked at that one.
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Just tell the busy body that if she cares about YOUR lawn that much, she's welcome to come over and garden/care for it HERSELF, and for FREE, with YOUR plant ideas. That should shut her up. =)
Hell, offer to switch yards. The horror of allowing you in her yard will put her on the other side of the fence for a while.
I did pretty okay on Famousr -- a little unfair to have Derek Jacobi pop up in the first 5, though.
First Famousr made me angry by telling me some random sweaty schlub was more famous than Cary Grant. Then it made me depressed, then I forgot what I was doing because of the pouty, smoldering eyefuck Jonathan Rhys Meyers is giving in his photograph.
I can't believe you're saying anything approving about Gwyneth! Your neighbors must really, really suck. I like my neighbors. Yes, they put up multiple obnoxious inflatables at the slightest hint of a seasonal holiday, but they also cleared our 20+ inches of snow while we were in Ireland, and last week they brought us brownies. And the neighbors on both sides have just as many weeds as I do.
Famousr update: Eddie Murphy should not be more famous than Paul Newman! Paul Newman! I need a drink.
I guess I'd take busy body over nasty rental that doesn't clean up anything and people who bought odd corner lot knowing it didn't have much for parking, and still park in front of my house. I guess its all relative however.
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