Bleh

[annuin]

So next door has a bunch of Mexicans working in their backyard again (they like their cheap labour, and I generally do question the legality of the people they get to work in their yard). This is the fourth summer in a row by now... it's getting to be ridiculous. They even had some earthmoving machine in there again this morning/early this afternoon, flattening out the bottom of the yard.

What's worse is that after four summers of work, with hours and hours of sleep disrupted by noisy stinky machinery, it should look like the Hanging Gardens of fucking Babylon by now, but it doesn't. It's altogether a very underwhelming garden design, and I could have done better with less equipment, in less time, and with a lot less money. When the weather clears up a bit I should take pictures.

Speaking of which... where the hell is that Spring weather anyway? Other than an insanely gorgeous few days about 2 weeks ago, when we even hit 82F (28C) for a day and high 70s F a couple days before that, the weather has been mostly wet and a bit dreary, with too few spots of sunshine.

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[lios-alfar.livejournal.com]

I remember staying at my aunt's place in California, which was rented, and her landlady got a group of mexicans in to do the gardening at the end of the summer. It was... surreal, and mostly involved a strimmer and not much else.