Why be Normal?

I was out for a walk today, enjoying the nice spring weather with my daughter.  We walked around the neighborhood, looking at all of the gardens beginning to bloom.   I have a number of flower beds, and I am looking forward to playing in the gardens all summer with a baby on my chest.

I always take my phone with me when I go for a walk, and I captured this picture of my neighbor’s garden decoration with my crappy cell phone.  No, the vivid colors are not because the phone is so bad, in fact this garden decoration is more vibrant than my cell phone was able to capture.

Yes, we bought the house with this giant garden atrocity already in place.  Even though it is about a foot on our property, when we bought our house there were so many deal breakers that this giant garden decoration seemed incosequential at the time.

Now, as I look out at my pretty gardens from the deck, this ugly, brightly colored garden “who knows what it is” decoration stares me in the face.  Where are all of the vandals when you need them?

I am all for eclectic and odd garden decorations, but do you really have to creep over into your neighbor’s yard to put up such a vibrant, loud “wind screen”? 

This summer I hope to have my yard properly surveyed, just so we know where our property line is (yes, I know this was part of our purchase as well, but it wasn’t mapped out for us…we ‘think’ this thing is on your property, but we’re not sure) and maybe, just maybe we’ll invest in a fence so that are yard will be more protected from bears, deer and ugly garden decorations.

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