Tumbleweeds
DON’T FORGET TO ENTER THE SLOPPY BABY GIVEAWAY BEFORE WEDNESDAY!
We had a CRAZY windy day here this past week. And it turns out our neighborhood is a breeding ground for tumbleweeds, which apparently are similar to bunnies because they’re freakin’ EVERYWHERE. So, the embarrassing part was when the tumbleweeds started blowing through our streets and alleyways, they all seemed to collect in OUR yard. They blew right by all the neighbors’ yards, past the parks, past the construction sites, past everything along the way and lodged themselves right here with us. I’m not kidding when I say they were piled so high in front of our garage that we couldn’t get in. The reason for our house becoming the resting spot to all the tumbleweeds in the entire city is simple. Remember that mattress I was convinced had bedbugs? Wait, first, let me preface this with a reminder of how busy we’ve been these past few months. Life has been hectic, and when Travis made that comment "why do I feel like our house should be on 4 wheels?" on camera a few weeks ago, he wasn’t just referring to the empty bottle of Mike’s Hard Lemonade that Finley was chasing around the family room. No. No. I wish that were it. Back to the mattress in the driveway. It’s been living there with some other crap we haven’t been able to get rid of until now, and all that served as a barrier to the army of tumbleweeds, which couldn’t tumble past the crap pile we stacked in the way. But the REALLY embarrassing part? We got a small fine from the Homeowner’s Association for "unsightliness." Holy crap. Unsightly is my a$$ these days. Or the inside of our house. We should’ve been ticketed for those things as well, but they only got us for the exterior of our house, so I guess I should be thankful to the rat that is our neighbor the kind neighborhood patrol that keeps things looking so Stepford around here. They’re not thrilled about the Beverly Hillbillies taking up residence here. Apparently.
To give you an idea of how serious I am, here are some of the tumbleweeds in our backyard:
So you can appreciate the size of this one, I made Shane sit in front of it; we should’ve called Guines$ Bo0k of World Records for this one:
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Holy Crap! That photo with Shane is awesome. He would look even smaller next to our laundry pile.
Wow-I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a tumbleweed before . . .
ok but I want to see the front of the house!
yeah…I would like to see a pic of the crap in the driveway too….then I’ll post a picture of the hot water heater that’s been “rotting” in our backyard for the past 3 years!!!
The trick is to live in an area where the standards are lower. We live in a pretty inner city neighbourhood where putting a potted plant outside your front door and not owning a pit-bull is considered the height of gentrification.
How funny!
We got a fine last year because our POA didn’t care for Stephen’s non-running truck in the yard. I am totally looking forward to moving somewhere where the standards are lower!
What I want to know is…are you sure your ratbag neighbor didn’t conveniently ‘offload’ the tumbleweeds that may or may not have congregated in her yard, into yours when you were otherwise occupied??? Hmmmm…
So, funny!! We have tumbleweeds where I am from in central Washington that can be bigger than the house(well, almost, you get my drift, though). It’s not like you have been busy with hmmmm…other things lately!! If your neighbors are so worried about the unsightliness…they should help you out!! haha. yeah right?!?
You really had that mattress outside all this time? Haha! I bet it’s nice and moldy by now. If I were honest, I would probably be pis$ed if my neighbor left crap in their driveway for months (and had grass taller than their kids!:). Sorry!
Too funny! I am waiting to see the mattress in the driveway. Nice!
They would hate my neighborhood. Tumble weeds abound!
That’s just crazy about the fine, though. Freaks!
I was laughing at all the tumbleweeds myself last week — thinking that it was such a Denver-as-Cow-Town kind of image, tumbleweeds EVERYWHERE. They are bigger than my border collie!
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