I want to ask my neighbors....

I want to ask what the inside of their house looks like. They have had work people over there constantly for months and months. I haven't really seen the neighbors over the winter, but with spring coming I'm sure we'll run into each other walking the dogs and gardening. I'll have chance to ask then.

I’m sure my neighbors want to ask me when I’m going to remove the dead, dried up plants from the pits around my door 😄

I want to know what my neighbor does in his garage with all the late-night sawing (10 pm-ish) We, of course, think that’s when he cuts up the bodies. But the reality is that’s probably the only time he has during the day to do his hobby.

I'd love to ask her why she insists on planting things on her 5 inches of grass that become invasive of my 4 feet of yard. This is the side yard between my bedroom side and her driveway and she has been doing this stuff for 20 years now. We've had her plant tree saplings on our yard, plants that creep over, and more. Several years ago she installed an iron fence and gate and had the nerve to ask if she could just come across to our house with the gate, rather than having the side fence along her drive. Um, not only no, but hell no! To help keep our side clear, we ripped up the grass last year and put down a liner with crushed granite on top. Easier to maintain.

Her first attempt to grow vines on her fence was bougainvillea. It was constantly growing over to our side, as well as onto the roof of our house. The thorns made it very difficult to get back there to mow or work on the a/c unit. When I mentioned it to her, she said that we should just have our gardener deal with it, that it wasn't her problem. Fortunately a freeze killed those vines. Now she has a flowering vine that is going wild on our side. My gardener trimmed them back on our side and she lost it. Left me a voice mail saying we can't touch her vines and should just be tossing those vines back to her side. How about she just keep them trimmed herself? Besides, laws here state that anything on my side of the fence is fair game, be it plants or tree branches. Oh how I wish she'd move but there is no chance that will ever happen.

I’m thinking my neighbors want to ask me why it took until mid-February to take the pumpkins off my front porch.

LOL! Our Christmas wreath is still up. Why? I'm not really sure. I like it. It doesn't scream Christmas, but it does whisper it loudly. Oh and the wreath boxes were put in the very back of the attic and covered up by some male in this house...

I’m going back twenty-some years, but I bet my parent’s neighbors wanted to ask why my dad insisted on trimming the front hedges by flood light at midnight with an electric trimmer. I wish they would have, because me complaining that he was waking me up on a school night when I was in high school because the flood lights shone into my bedroom window and the hedges were under that window didn’t do anything.

Mine too!
My mother was here visiting this week and she asked me if my "H" for my front had broken, because my Christmas wreath was still up. No... I've just been too tired to change it back. I came home from work yesterday and she had changed it for me. Aren't moms great? LOL!

I would love to ask the neighbors across the street why they have 3 Lexuses and a full size Ford truck and only 2 drivers. 2 of the Lexuses are the same except different colors, the other one is a SUV. All the vehicles parked on the street. They are a middle aged to older couple with no children. He is disabled and does not work, she works from home.

For the last five years I have run every possible scenario through my head to figure this out. It’s clearly none of my business, but inquiring minds want to know.

It’s vodka. 

I want to ask, when they are going to have fresh baked scones again. Because the last one was yummy, and I would like another one (or two, or ten). LOL!!

Do you live on my street? My neighbors didn't get rid of the pumpkins on their porch and steps until about 2-3 weeks ago.

I want to ask my neighbors (not the pumpkin ones) why they park their minivan across the street from their driveway, right at the very apex of the curve on our street, so that it limits visibility for everyone who has to drive past it heading into the cul de sac. (And don't even get me started on why they think it's okay to shame people and gesture for them to slow down when said people are driving UNDER the speed limit. And why must their kids play catch across the street from each other - one on one side & one on the other? Is this the one house on the block that somehow doesn't have a backyard?? )

I'm sure my neighbors want to ask me when we're going to spread that bag of mulch that's been sitting in the garden for months on end...and when we're going to buy it some friends, 'cuz one measly bag isn't going to cut it, LOL.

I had a HS teacher who did this 30 years ago. She had a huge thermos on her desk and drank water constantly all day, every day. At the end of the school year, one of my classmates decided to ask her about it and she said when you're diagnosed with a medical condition and the doctor says you have to drink 2 gallons of water a day, that what you have to do. She knew if she filled her thermos 4 times a day she would hit her quota. Not saying this is what's going on with the guy in the quote above, but you never know.

This. If someone is sick or caring for a sick family member or trying to cope after a death in the family, dealing with house and yard and decorating fall way down on the list of priorities, as they should. It would be good if friends or neighbors asked if they needed help, but I think people may either not know the situation or don't want to intrude. I'm sorry megmc, if you lived near us we would help you.

It’s a *little* different if it’s an artificial one that you keep that needs to be taken down and stored until the season rolls around again. I’m talking about the natural ones that dry out, get droopy, the needles all fall off and make a mess, and they turn yellowish and gross. Those ones really need to go away once they start looking dead. I tossed mine at the end of January when all the pine needles that started to get embedded in my front door mat were driving me insane.