Unwilling audience to a conversation, I got to listen to neighbors looking down their noses upon other neighbors.\u00a0 There is an eccentric couple who live on a corner nearby, and, though their property is well-kept, it isn’t pristine lawn and flowers planted nicely in\u00a0orderly rows.\u00a0 It’s artistic, with a rusty frog (purposely rusty) peering out at the world from a riotous flower planting,\u00a0driftwood and miscellany artfully attached to a purposely rustic fence, and, amongst other interesting touches, a disintegrating fiberglass bear set in such a way as to present an artistic statement.\u00a0 (The bear, by the way, was “original artwork” done for an exhibition and auction, compliments of\u00a0one of Sandpoint’s stupid tourist-draw marketing frenzies.) In other words,\u00a0their yard\u00a0isn’t tame, sterile, and “suburban plastic.”<\/p>\n
I applaud these individuals on their choices. I applaud their “nerve”\u00a0(as one snippy neighbor so nicely put it).\u00a0 I applaud their choice to be themselves, a house that looks alive amid\u00a0blocks of sterile lawns which mimic AstroTurf, and plantings that come straight out of\u00a0Martha Stewart’s idea of a Stepford Wife’s Perfect\u00a0Planting. *YUCK!*<\/p>\n
Psst!\u00a0 You know what REALLY irks everyone?\u00a0 They can’t see into these folk’s side-yard and backyard or through their windows.\u00a0 They made their place very, very private, except for the\u00a0front corner yard, which, of course, is gorgeously unique, and completely obscures any nosy eyes from spying in their windows or beyond the gates.\u00a0 *snicker*\u00a0<\/p>\n
I think people ought to take their snippy attitudes and their concern\u00a0about what someone else is doing in their lives, with their property, and how it looks, sounds, and IS, and stuff\u00a0those thoughts back\u00a0where they belong —\u00a0vaulted inside their much too empty minds.\u00a0 …Now, all together, folks:\u00a0FLUSH!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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