Tuesday, February 14, 2006
9:23 PM
See, here in Florida, there are palm trees EVERYWHERE. I don't like palm trees all that much. I miss real trees, with real leaves that come out of real branches and all flutter in the breeze. Trees you can hang a swing from, trees you can climb without needing a big spike coming out of the front of your shoes. I also don't like tropical green bushes with tiny red and yellow leaves that PRETEND to be flowers. I like gardenias and flowers that smell. Pretty and colorful and lush and REAL.
Finally, there was the rock issue. See my parents, born and bred in NY (Astoria to Lawn Guyland) have a thing about rocks instead of grass. If you have rocks on your lawn and around your backyard instead of grass, there's no mowing. Spice it up with some bushes that need no trimming. Flowers are no good because they die and their dead petals must be swept up.
Do you know what it was like to try and have a little girl picnic on ROCKS? When it snowed, I had a hell of time trying to sled down the ROCK lawn. My snowballs had the potential to kill someone because ROCKS were mixed in. If you were playing around on the "lawn" and fell, instead of a green grass stain on your knees, you'd get a gash that required a trip to the emergency room.
Needless to say, I want grass. Flowers. No pointy manicured hedges. NO ROCKS, no gravel. And no tropical. Old fashioned plants and grass and trees. Maybe some old fashioned birds (not the tropical scary kind we have down here that carry off cats) will come and visit.
The other issue is the damn septic tank- it's under our front yard and the new regulations do not allow them to be buried. So our front lawn is kinda scary- it goes straight to the street and then drops off two feet to the sidewalk, no slope. It looks like a big stage from the street. Every time I think of it I see Cupcake toddling and toddling and then dropping right off the edge. So we need to do something, maybe some sort of hedge-y thing or something. Something that prevents a child from wanting to barrel through it.
So landscaping must be worked on further. Takes my mind off SHOPPING!
