Looking at the post from two years ago, I remember the trouble we had getting landscape timbers cut. This year we went to Lowes instead of Home Depot. Another mistake. After we had paid for the landscape timbers (I had one more bed that needed to be raised to match the others) Ryan tried to get two of them cut. We didn't have the hassle we had at Home Depot. Nope! They flat-assed refused to cut them! Crap! Ryan had to cut them himself.
We got up Tuesday morning for odds and ends. Ryan raised my last bed to the desired height. He spread some pinestraw. He treated my azaleas with some pest control stuff. We trimmed sone vines that had crept over the fence from my neighbor's. Ryan blew all the debris off my patio. Sherry took all the dead branches off my hydrangeas. We bagged up all the stuff that we hadn't shredded and put the bags at the curb.
Shortly thereafter, the mailman came by and blissfully ran over one of the bags ripping the bottom open. He didn't stop. Didn't say he was sorry. Gummint worker. As luck would have it, I was out of bags, so I taped up the bottom.
Ryan and Sherry left around 2:30 to head back to Columbia towing the trailer full of all their garden tools. They were sore yesterday and she told me they're still sore today. None of us are spring chickens anymore.
I'll bet the HOA Nazi went home and masturbated after she saw how nice all my bushes were. I'm still not sure which were the "bushes on the right" that needed trimming, but since everything got pruned we must have got them as well.
Posted by denny at June 13, 2007 04:04 PM
Maybe she meant "Bush's" on the right. Ya think?
Posted by: Rob Cooper on June 14, 2007 12:31 AMAt least you get to vote for/against your HOA Nazis. We get the same "neighborhood beautiful" treatment, but it's from town Code Enforcement Officers, and you can't vote them out.
Their favorite current harassment is tree roots heaving the sidewalks. If your sidewalks are heaved only an inch, you get a notice to comply, which means you have to (within 10 days), buy a "permit to repair sidewalk", then you have several months to get the spendy job done.
Problem is, the type of tree, the Red Sunset Maple, that is planted in the parking strips is city-mandated, and ALL Red Sunset Maples have surface-spreading root systems. It is one of the poorest choices of a streetside tree that could have been made, but they made the choice long ago and mandated these trees. Now, as the trees attain some size, ALL the sidewalks are heaving.
I haven't gotten my orders to repair yet, but when I do, I'm sending them a demand letter to pay for the job, AND remove the trees, AND replant something else (with a tap-root system). I will have that demand letter written by my lawyer, and it will threaten to sue the city in a class action to recover ALL the money spent by ALL the townspeople on sidewalk repair because of this tree requirement.
The City Forester is a ditzel. I tried to chat her up about the correct way to trim these trees to promote health and discourage the spreading of roots, but after three emails, never got a reply from her. Instead, she sent a crew around who put such a weird trim on two of the trees that they sent shoots straight up, then suffered ice damage that following winter because of the excessive shoots.
Both the HOA system and the "neighborhood beautiful" system we have here need to be dumped.
Posted by: Rivrdog on June 18, 2007 11:41 AM