Kiki's Summer Stupendous Social Salad Splash

[Painted Calls]

Lol she didnt say she was ugly

She wasn't speaking about the neighbor.

 

[WhatTheDuckingDuck]

I am not a fan of grumpy ugly liars.

Nobody does!

 

[Kiki]

Lol she didnt say she was ugly

If people do nasty things just to piss people off...they are ugly.

 

[EverythingDucks]

I wish! My closest neighbors have seven kids ranging from 6-14 (and three grown ones, to boot) All seven have been away visiting their older sister for two solid months ... and it's been HEAVEN! The little monsters .... errr ... cherubs ... come back on Saturday. I have one more day of relative peace. One more day of Crazy Dog being on her (relatively) best behavior because no one is poking sticks through the fence to make her bite or banging on the gate to make her bark, One more day no seven-year-old screaming at the top of her lungs simply because she can.
And. Oh Joy! They'll all be home-schooled this year. Ain't Life Grand?
Those West Virginia mountain tops are looking better and better ...

And I though I had bad neighbors.
The ones behind us have two dogs that bark non stop. Not once have they tried to calm them or tell them to stop. I was out letting Teddy use the bathroom and the dogs were barking at us so I came up to the fence where there was an open spot and let them sniff me as I told them it was okay and I wasn't gonna hurt them. They quieted immediately. They don't bark much now.

And our next door neighbors have a really janky yard. Pretty all the rest of the houses have really nice, well kept landscaping. But they have weeds and grass growing through the sidewalk, weeds all in their overgrown grass, plants growing in the gutters, lots of random dead trees and bushes, IDK what they're called, but they're like garden beds for the plants and they (normally) have mulch in them. Well, anyways, there was not mulch in them. Just weedy grass and a few trees in need of trimming. Also, the barrier that's supposed to keep mulch in is falling apart and you can see tarp sticking out. Needles to say, it's horrible.
When we first moved here and I was like 8 the two youngest daughters played with me often. They were maybe 11 and 13 at the time. I'm not sure really. Well that didn't last long. You see my mom never really let me knock on their door and they never really came to our house so we just played in my front yard. We stopped hanging out much after that. I wasn't sure why at the time and the months following, I mean, we were both homeschooled, liked animals, and we lived next door. Well, looking back at it now I'm pretty sure it's because we didn't end up going to the church they went to so... I mean, we've never been very religious. We never went to church growing up. I'm definitely way more religious now than I was before but I don't think that should have anything to do with friendship.

The neighbors adjacent to us have what we call the great wall of Clearwater. After hurricane Irma their back fence fence got knocked down while our next door neighbors mom was the only one staying there (her son and daughter in law, aka our neighbors, were on vacay). Anyways, the people behind them insisted on fixing it themselves even though my dad offed to. So, a lot of time goes by but they finally get to fixing it. They got these super tall fence posts. I mean like, at least 10 feet tall. I'm thinking, like 'hmm, that's a bit odd, but maybe he's just reusing it to save money'. Years later they're still there. Ugly as heck. He cut one of them but left the others for whatever reason.
Our house is a bit higher up from there so we get to see it every day. Which is just great. lol.

Sorry for such a long rant about my neighbors lol.

Oops, just realized I hadn't posted this

 

[MROO]

The poor sister

She almost shipped the youngest home. Twice! I was hoping she'd keep him. He's the gate slapper.

 

[RUNuts]

Delicious

salubrious

 

[gointothebirdsfarm]

If people do nasty things just to piss people off...they are ugly.

Very true...even if they are the most beautiful person in the world

 

[MROO]

Same...... my neighbor is a psychopath! She calls animal control on us all the time! Stupid stuff about our horses and blah blah blah.

I do have to qualify my neighbor rant a bit. They aren't absolutely awful. I mean, the kids are decent, one or two at a time, but when they're all together and competing for anything - attention, the basketball, whatever - they're LOUD. And when they're bored, they torment my dog. THEY think it's a game - like counting coup - but poor Crazy Dog doesn't understand, so to her it's not a game - it's an attack.
The Mom is a decent woman and a good neighbor. She works hard and she's good with the kids - but she's also a suddenly single parent, which is one reason why the kids went away for the summer. Dad's a waste who only shows up when he signs himself out of rehab - which is another reason they went away for awhile. My heart breaks for her ... and for the kids, too, really - but something's gotta give!

 

[RUNuts]

Very true...even if they are the most beautiful person in the world

You are very wise. The saying I heard was: Even the most gorgeous person has at least one person who can't stand to look at them. Usually an ex.

 

[gointothebirdsfarm]

She almost shipped the youngest home. Twice! I was hoping she'd keep him. He's the gate slapper.

If ya are gonna have 10 kids please grow them up right