Breaking news!

Breaking news: Our neighbor, the guy on the other side of our duplex, had his grass mowed today!!!!!!

That's seriously a big deal. He's lived there for over 6 months now and has never, ever mowed his grass. The only reason the front part of his yard has ever been at a modest height is because his front yard is connected to the neighbor next to him, and they've been mowing his grass. But his backyard? It's been fenced off from our backyard and of course the people next to him. And that grass was TALL. I wanted to get a picture of it because it was starting to look like a jungle out there (especially with the two huge potted bamboo plants he has sitting next to his backdoor). There are some very tall pieces of grass that were missed today right where the fence is, so I may be able to get out and get a picture of Isaac next to it. But I'm 5'2" and some of that grass came to my chin. The sad thing about the grass being mowed today was it wasn't even our neighbor doing it, it looked like his middle-aged father. And the logical thing would have been to use a weed wacker first, but instead he just had his mower and it took him about an hour to do that tiny bit of yard! When this guy first moved in Daniel asked if he'd like him to help mow his grass for him, and he said no, that he had a mower he could borrow from his mom. Ya. Right.

I've got issues with this guy, and I've never actually said boo to him yet. He's renting a duplex, which requires some degree of maintenance on his part. But he's there on average one night a week, and maybe one day. Really! He's got a girlfriend who comes and stays with him when he's staying there, and I swear that girl is loud and squeals like a pig in heat. They are loud neighbors. I had to call in a complaint twice because we could hear his TV/music over our own house noise, even though between our two living rooms we have 2 garages and laundry rooms separating us!!! The guy isn't a big guy at all, but he makes more noise coming and going out of his house than the previous two tenants who lived there before him. In fact, he makes more noise than the two basset hounds the previous couple had, and we can hear him stomping up his stairs all the way from our living room. He also drives a massive truck, so I originally thought he was in construction but turns out he works for UPS. Methinks that with this rental and the big truck and the heavy way he carries himself that he's trying to make up for something?

Either way I'm glad the grass was cut, even if we know it's going to grow back (I'll take a picture then!) We just bought Isaac a swim pool for the summer, and I was scared to death of being out there and having snakes come slithering out of the neighbor's tall grass into our yard!