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stoney321I spent the weekend outside in the garden because *sucks in breath, hands on hips* I happened to get a Certified Letter from my HOA saying that the weeds in my garden were unacceptable.
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WAIT. Wait. Let me explain. I have no weeds. Well, there was one. ONE. This is in a flower bed that is over 60 feet long and just over 20 feet deep, mind. ONE WEED. The letter that I received a) had the wrong address in the photograph, which indeed had weeds and b) was dated in July.
To say I was affronted is putting it lightly. (Newcomers: I'm a Texas Master Gardener. I take that shit personally.) This was a perfect excuse to start the Fall rip-out of plants that are done for the season, dead head, divide bulbs, etc. So that's what I did. It's all tidy and open and empty and waiting for new babies and I am VERY HAPPY. And I took a nice picture and will be emailing the HOA later with a bit of a hemhem, you were saying? added.
I went to a neighbor's house on Friday for drinks, met the CUTEST GUY (not like that. Well, he's attractive but just keep reading) that was a) former Mormon, b) former Missionary, c) gay as rainbow glitter on a mustache and d) hilarious. AND ALSO E) A GARDENER. I told him he was my gay doppelganger and we spent hours swapping stories. ALSO. ALSO. AND. His mother and sister both sing in my father's exclusive choir. O_O I MEAN. (omg, my husband had to peel me off of him to get me home and now we're FB bff. Lol.)
AND LASTLY. My son came home from work last night with a straggly bouquet of flowers for me (he works in a grocery store as a sacker, so they were those kind of flowers) and I am still looking over at their bedraggled selves and grinning from ear to ear. I'm fairly easy to please, it must be said. <3 Also, AWWWW. <3
AND NOW I WANT NACHOS. Or guacamole. Or something fatty and bad for me. *grumbles* I am completely surrounded by a lack of bad for me foods, stupid healthy living.
O_O
WAIT. Wait. Let me explain. I have no weeds. Well, there was one. ONE. This is in a flower bed that is over 60 feet long and just over 20 feet deep, mind. ONE WEED. The letter that I received a) had the wrong address in the photograph, which indeed had weeds and b) was dated in July.
To say I was affronted is putting it lightly. (Newcomers: I'm a Texas Master Gardener. I take that shit personally.) This was a perfect excuse to start the Fall rip-out of plants that are done for the season, dead head, divide bulbs, etc. So that's what I did. It's all tidy and open and empty and waiting for new babies and I am VERY HAPPY. And I took a nice picture and will be emailing the HOA later with a bit of a hemhem, you were saying? added.
I went to a neighbor's house on Friday for drinks, met the CUTEST GUY (not like that. Well, he's attractive but just keep reading) that was a) former Mormon, b) former Missionary, c) gay as rainbow glitter on a mustache and d) hilarious. AND ALSO E) A GARDENER. I told him he was my gay doppelganger and we spent hours swapping stories. ALSO. ALSO. AND. His mother and sister both sing in my father's exclusive choir. O_O I MEAN. (omg, my husband had to peel me off of him to get me home and now we're FB bff. Lol.)
AND LASTLY. My son came home from work last night with a straggly bouquet of flowers for me (he works in a grocery store as a sacker, so they were those kind of flowers) and I am still looking over at their bedraggled selves and grinning from ear to ear. I'm fairly easy to please, it must be said. <3 Also, AWWWW. <3
AND NOW I WANT NACHOS. Or guacamole. Or something fatty and bad for me. *grumbles* I am completely surrounded by a lack of bad for me foods, stupid healthy living.
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Date: 2012-09-24 05:19 pm (UTC)I WISH I COULD HAVE EAVESDROPPED ON YOU AND YOUR FABULOUS GAY TWIN.
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Date: 2012-09-24 05:38 pm (UTC)The whole world fell away as we swapped stories, let me just tell you!
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Date: 2012-09-24 05:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-24 05:38 pm (UTC)FM!!!!!!!! HE DOES.
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Date: 2012-09-24 05:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-24 05:54 pm (UTC)<3
I like Gerry, because he makes me laugh, but I don't want to be friends with him. Jonathan needs to be my BFF, pronto. You're welcome to join us for a BFF threesome!
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Date: 2012-09-24 06:02 pm (UTC)JONATHAN. I just love him. LOVE HIM. So funny and sassy and mannered and we could cuddle and watch Golden Girls and Designing Women and then make cocktails and share secrets and go out dancing! And then we'd watch him get picked up, make sure he was okay, and then wave him off while we went looking for Dean to talk snark with. :D
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Date: 2012-09-24 06:09 pm (UTC)Except that Dean just left the show and moved to New York waaaaaaaaaaaaaah *sadface*, but this is our fantasy world so let's make it happen, anyway! We need JP, too, though, for the snarking.
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Date: 2012-09-24 06:18 pm (UTC)But this just means our next NYC trip will include drinks with Dean and his boyfriend, Michael! (Who really needs help dressing himself, the poor dear.)
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Date: 2012-09-24 05:41 pm (UTC)What is an HOA?
It's very cool that you met your doppelganger, of sorts, and yay! for your wonderful son. What a sweetie!
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Date: 2012-09-24 05:52 pm (UTC)HOA = home owner's association. (I live in a community that has rules, dues, etc. and it in turn maintains your home's property value. Or in our case, increased it significantly. So I'm happy to keep things nice and tidy. WHICH IS WHY I WAS ALL GASP-SHOCK-WHAT!?)
Seriously, the flowers are just the cutest. (I mean, they're not good flowers at all, but they are THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS BECAUSE MY SON GAVE THEM TO ME. <3 Hee.)
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Date: 2012-09-24 07:37 pm (UTC)Up here, those dues would typically be called "propery taxes" and the entity sending the weed notice would be called "the City". (Sadly, the City does not have nice ladies that send postcards for good behaviour.)
What is the consequence if you put a couple of rusty old cars on your front lawn and let it get overgrown with ragweed? What happens if you don't pay your dues?
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Date: 2012-09-24 08:17 pm (UTC)If we put garbage on our yard and didn't haul it away we'd get fined. Beyond that, I don't know because I can't imagine doing that! ;)
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Date: 2012-09-24 10:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-24 05:57 pm (UTC)Anyway. KID GIFTIES! <3
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Date: 2012-09-24 06:00 pm (UTC)Last year they sent my husband a post card praising him for his garden. AHEM. (I think the older lady that is in charge of that correspondence has a crush on The Mr. I can't say that I blame her, though.)
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Date: 2012-09-24 06:35 pm (UTC)I will echo your awwww about the flowers. Kids have *no* idea how much these little gestures mean to us moms.
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Date: 2012-09-24 06:38 pm (UTC)Isn't that the sweetest? And it's been a ROUGH week with that teenage boy, let me tell you. I had to bite my lip to keep from bursting into tears the whole drive home. :)
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Date: 2012-09-24 06:48 pm (UTC)Grocery store flowers for mom! I am grinning at the sweetness.
I had grilled corn and pinto bean salsa with baked corn tortilla chips for lunch. It was like nachos without the cheese...yeah, it wasn't like nachos at all.
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Date: 2012-09-24 07:07 pm (UTC)The flowers really are so sweet. He's a good kid deep down. :)
Hahahaha - it sounds delicious, but yeah. Not nachos.
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Date: 2012-09-24 07:04 pm (UTC)Awww, flowers. That is love and adorable.
I had guacamole on my sandwich at lunch. It was DELICIOUS, you should do the same.
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Date: 2012-09-24 08:19 pm (UTC)I had a microwave meal for my lunch, and it was very unsatisfactory. (I mean, as far as they go it was fine. I just wanted, like, the Elvis Chicken from Chuys or something.) I am rectifying this by baking up a chocolate chip cookie for myself. :D *pats belly*
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Date: 2012-09-24 08:23 pm (UTC)A microwave meal is NEVER a satisfactory alternative! It's like, pure fuel for the body that you just endure. YOU DESERVE MORE, STONEY! You deserve deliciousness!
Thank goodness for chocolate chip cooookies. I have a piece of chocolate cake waiting for me at home. It is calling my name.
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Date: 2012-09-24 07:45 pm (UTC)AWWWW to the boy bringing you flowers. He is so adorable. <3
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Date: 2012-09-24 08:56 pm (UTC)Up here Uconn runs it, and it appears they have additional classes after you certify. Have you taken more classes?
Also it looks like they have a certain amount of volunteer hours, do you have that too?
Thank you for sharing your brain goo. You are the only Master Gardener I know!
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Date: 2012-09-24 09:02 pm (UTC)I'm not an active member of the society currently, because I moved out of the county and driving for an hour to go to a class on tomatoes was a bit much. ;) I do a lot of online reading and of course, loads of hands-on training in my garden (and any neighbor that collars me on a good day.)
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Date: 2012-09-24 10:46 pm (UTC)ERMERGERD PLERNTS!
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Date: 2012-09-24 10:38 pm (UTC)Ring up Gay doppelganger and go to the fab restaurant with the fab drinks and food that I will always remember fondly! If he's truly your doppelganger he will be peckish now as well. And if not then he lied to you and you should stab him in the neck. We're ladies, it's what we do.
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Date: 2012-09-25 12:10 pm (UTC)The letter in blood and feces is a great idea. Sounds like something my mother would do!
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Date: 2012-09-25 01:54 am (UTC)Yay for new Best Friends! I just rekindled an old one and am all excited about it again. :)
Oh how I miss New Mexico and their nachos and gauc that actually has flavor and isn't a nasty greasy mess. Indiana, make some good Mexican food!!! Or, maybe I should learn to just make my own.
Also, i feel ya on the getting trim again. grrr, inspired by you I got p90x and it's kicking my ass. I have to admit I keep failing and stopping and then starting back up again. How did you ever make it through!?
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Date: 2012-09-25 01:07 pm (UTC)P90X is FUN! Tell yourself that, and feel proud when you get through even half of a workout, because even HALF is hard as shit. Don't get down on yourself in the beginning - you're not going to be able to do everything like Tony/the others. BUT YOU WILL BY THE END. I promise!
(And I've picked it back up after a lazy summer, so today is my Plyo day!) <3
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Date: 2012-09-26 12:40 pm (UTC)You know, i think it was only being able to do half that was making me get down on myself, because I couldn't finish the hour/hour and a half ones. K I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna do it!
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Date: 2012-09-27 01:43 pm (UTC)Are there pics of your garden here on your LJ? Is THAT a bit of your garden [the pic with the post]? I looooove gardens, but alas..I do not have green fingers. AT ALL. Also, all my sun/heat/bug allergies make me a poor gardener. If you ever want a Gardening Challenge in an equatorial climate, please, buzz me. I'll offer up my parents' garden. They spend their time bickering over what should go where, it's all very haphazard!
Cheers to your new FB bff! Haha Delightful!
Happy Thursday!
<3 to you!
Date: 2012-09-27 02:53 pm (UTC)My icon is not my garden, just a lovely picture. But! I have LOADS of pics of my garden. (Gardening tag + picspam! tag.)
Here are some links to save you searching, if you'd like.
1. ripping up side of house, stone walkways (have since been widened/prettified)
2. earlier pics of front beds/stone walkway has since been improved and will be completely overhauled this fall. :D (I'm crazy. I know.)
3. roses!
4. more roses and bluebonnets
5. lilies, food garden, natives, and the pool
6. and lastly, a garden tour of my old cat's favorite haunts in the garden (she spoke with a French accent that quickly morphed into Romanian. ;D
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Date: 2012-09-28 03:04 pm (UTC)