WHY?????

I don't get this.

We live in a fairly nice area. The neighborhood isn't exclusive or gated or any of that elitist shit, but it's a damn nice kinda upscale golf course type community.

Myself I enjoy keeping the yard looking nice. It's really not that much work and even when I had a job I still had plenty of time to spruce up the yard, plant flowers and such. I think every year we average spending about 300 or so on plants and mulch. We *do* have a lawn service that cost 60 a month for bi-weekly or 100 a month weekly.

I would say that a good 90% of the lawns get no care other than occasional hedge upkeep and mowing and edging the lawn. It seems to me that most people here don't care about color or flowers or landscape lights or anything other than mowing and trimming bushes if *that*.

There are many houses right around us that I know haven't done any maintenance on the bushes since I've lived here and that will be 3 years in May.

There is one house a street over that is so overgrown with bushes (the owners planted all kinds of weird looking plants and stuff along the sidewalk in front of the house) that you can't see much of the house at all. It surprises me because there is a strict homeowners assoc. here but I guess the "rules" don't apply to keeping yards looking neat I guess.

I don't understand it, but then again I love when the yard looks nice and colorful, and it makes me feel really good when we're out digging in the dirt and neighbors walk by and compliment the yard and say things like "you have the most beautiful yard" and how much they enjoy seeing what we've planted every year.

For the most part I love working in the yard and I don't do it with the thought of what anyone else thinks, but it does feel good to know that other people appreciate the work Tad and I do. :~)

Oh well, I got my bitch on and now it's time to work on my hooves. That's a bitchfest for another day.