Last spring, I promised you some summertime photos in my neck of the woods. Some things never change..........
Here's the mulch pile that's been sitting in this neighbor's driveway since the beginning of May. It's still there! I guess he doesn't mind parking in the street. Frankly, I'm a bit tired of having to walk around it everyday while exercising.
I'm counting one cow, four pigs and two geese, along with a farmer boy. Seriously.
See those two costumed geese? This lady changes these concrete geese on a weekly basis. I was sorry that I wasn't quick enough in June to get a photo of them as a bride and groom. You should see their Halloween get up.
This is what happens when a neighbor has admitted defeat to the deer. Look closely. That's a barrel of fake flowers proudly displayed at their mailbox.
More photos to come..................
Here's the mulch pile that's been sitting in this neighbor's driveway since the beginning of May. It's still there! I guess he doesn't mind parking in the street. Frankly, I'm a bit tired of having to walk around it everyday while exercising.
I'm counting one cow, four pigs and two geese, along with a farmer boy. Seriously.
See those two costumed geese? This lady changes these concrete geese on a weekly basis. I was sorry that I wasn't quick enough in June to get a photo of them as a bride and groom. You should see their Halloween get up.
This is what happens when a neighbor has admitted defeat to the deer. Look closely. That's a barrel of fake flowers proudly displayed at their mailbox.
More photos to come..................
Oh, man. That mulch pile is just begging to be jumped in!
ReplyDeleteIs the mulch-guy just making his pile available to the public, or what?
ReplyDeleteAnd hey, the barnyard statuary is a pretty good step up from the plywood 'granny fannies' that we see around us. . .
And I'm shaking my head in wonder, just a little, that your neighborhood is such that there are deer in sufficient numbers to actually be surrendered to. . .
Is the mulch blocking a sidewalk or does the sidewalk stop before the drive? Oh, I don't know why I even ask, because either way, it would definitely becoming annoying to me, and I'd probably talk a lot about calling the city, but never would, but I would stew. If you saw the neglected rental house (grrr...and sigh...) next door to me owned by an out-of-state person, you'd know my angst.
ReplyDeleteFirst, let me apologize for my poor layout. Blogger doesn't like me sometimes.
ReplyDeleteMama - I've been tempted to walk right over it and make a mess for his lazy ass!
Des - I hate those granny fannies, so my sympathies to you on that. Oh, the deer have reduced people to all sorts of things around here. They walk down the sidewalk in the middle of the day, so they are as common as squirrels now.
FADKOG - The mulch blocks both the sidewalk and the driveway. Fortunately, I can't see his house from where I live or I might be tempted to make a call to the city. And we also have an owner on our street who moved out of state and the house has no shutters and looks like a Scooby Doo haunted house.
LOL! ... you live in one quirky n'hood, Cocotte!
ReplyDeleteI'd go in cahoots with the other n'bors to grab a wheelbarrow-full of mulch once/week and slowly dwindle that pile down, lol
...AND... I spy FOUR flower pinwheels! wow. lol
Does the "geese lady" not have kids? lol
ps. I can't wait to see more pix!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing & for the laughs. =)
Back in my home town, it was very common to see, amongst the homes of the retirees... life-like deer statuary. And yes, even those deer usually were posed with their noses down in the grass. Or, laying in the shade. Or standing up with that perky "my spidey-sense is tingling" look.
ReplyDeleteBut, honestly? I think the pair of geese is kinda cute. Not that I would ever own a pair, but I think it's charming. Especially cause the house itself, with the flag and all, looks kinda "homestead-ey"
I love crazy neighbors. The lawns on our street are very small, and we've had people live next door that have so many trinkets and stuff in their front yard, that you can't even see the grass.
ReplyDeleteWe currently have a guy two houses down that has an old motorcycle. It's VERY loud and he revs it. Like all day and most of the night. I can't tell if he's working on it, or just revving it nonstop. It's GREAT, especially at 10 pm.
LB - Good eye! Nope, the geese lady is a senior citizen, but you'd think she'd have some grandkids to dote on instead of those geese.
ReplyDeleteFlutter - One of my kid's former teachers bought a house in our development that had one of those deer. It weighed a ton and they had trouble disposing of it because it was too heavy for the garbage truck. She had it lying on its side like it was dead for a long time!
FTN - The motorcycle revving is bad enough when you are at a red light. I'd be insane if it was happening at 10 pm next door.
That mulch has got to be stinking up the place. Since May 1st? Really? Maybe some of it could be spread about the neighborhood...
ReplyDeletethe geese are a hoot. you promise to show us the h alloween costumes?
ReplyDeletethe fake flowers are just kind of sad.
Is it legal to be blocking the sidewalk like that?
ReplyDeleteYard art is a strange and fascinating phenomenon.
Mike - I noticed the mulch lost its odor after about a month!
ReplyDeleteLime - I once saw someone "grow" fake flowers around their yard. Not kidding!
Agent - Not illegal, but a public nuisance.