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Aug. 1st, 2005 10:45 amI am almost starting to suspect that our upstairs neighbors have started a little passive-aggressive covert war with us. It's not terribly difficult to deal with, so far, and if this is as bad as it's going to get, then they can have their small portion of fun and use it to decorate their empty bland little lives. But I worry.
Last weekend I noted that one of my paulownia shrubs had somehow been chopped off about six inches above its pot. Huh! I still don't know how they managed it (I presume 'accidentally,' like, they were carrying furniture past it or something), but I know that paulownias are insanely tenacious and in fact sometimes people trim them back to the ground on purpose, for straighter growth or fluffier leaves or I don't know. So I think it will be fine, but I wonder if they know that.
Secondly, I have noticed that [wife] has been tossing her dead plant material (from her stupid impatiens (which are annuals and also not all that nice-looking; I don't see the point)) over the edge of her porch, which overlooks our porch on a couple of sides. She probably thinks this is awesome and clever, since, see, we are unwilling to pick up all the little sticks on the lawn, for instance, so now perhaps she is bringing some plant waste home to us. Now, instead of placing the plant matter on the dead, acidic pine-needle-wasteland area of the yard (which they PICK UP when I do it), it's being used as a particularly ineffective little punishment.
Honestly it's almost cute.
Oh, and lastly (this one is a stretch): they this weekend for reasons known only to them chopped down a few little saplings that stood between our backyard and the garage of the house on the opposite lot, on the property line. Now, they can't know this (wait, maybe they CAN!), but that house has a bright annoying light that it likes to turn on at night. And, of course, the little trees had been screening it somewhat.
But apart from that, who chops down little trees in a non-nuisance situation? They weren't encroaching on anything, they weren't threatening any part of the yard. I guess they weren't a mulched heap in which struggled individual pansies, which seems to be a major goal of our neighbors.
In case it isn't obvious, I hate this brand of 'gardening' more than I hate the damned white flies that keep finding my verbena ([Parent Trap] Oh, Verbena!). In conclusion, if someone would drop enough money in my lap so we could buy out these lumps, that would be nice.
Last weekend I noted that one of my paulownia shrubs had somehow been chopped off about six inches above its pot. Huh! I still don't know how they managed it (I presume 'accidentally,' like, they were carrying furniture past it or something), but I know that paulownias are insanely tenacious and in fact sometimes people trim them back to the ground on purpose, for straighter growth or fluffier leaves or I don't know. So I think it will be fine, but I wonder if they know that.
Secondly, I have noticed that [wife] has been tossing her dead plant material (from her stupid impatiens (which are annuals and also not all that nice-looking; I don't see the point)) over the edge of her porch, which overlooks our porch on a couple of sides. She probably thinks this is awesome and clever, since, see, we are unwilling to pick up all the little sticks on the lawn, for instance, so now perhaps she is bringing some plant waste home to us. Now, instead of placing the plant matter on the dead, acidic pine-needle-wasteland area of the yard (which they PICK UP when I do it), it's being used as a particularly ineffective little punishment.
Honestly it's almost cute.
Oh, and lastly (this one is a stretch): they this weekend for reasons known only to them chopped down a few little saplings that stood between our backyard and the garage of the house on the opposite lot, on the property line. Now, they can't know this (wait, maybe they CAN!), but that house has a bright annoying light that it likes to turn on at night. And, of course, the little trees had been screening it somewhat.
But apart from that, who chops down little trees in a non-nuisance situation? They weren't encroaching on anything, they weren't threatening any part of the yard. I guess they weren't a mulched heap in which struggled individual pansies, which seems to be a major goal of our neighbors.
In case it isn't obvious, I hate this brand of 'gardening' more than I hate the damned white flies that keep finding my verbena ([Parent Trap] Oh, Verbena!). In conclusion, if someone would drop enough money in my lap so we could buy out these lumps, that would be nice.
