We have had one hell of a wet Spring here in Beautiful Dunwoody. It doesn’t bother me a bit since I just had a Japanese Maple planted in my front yard. Those boogers are expensive! But they look nice and since it was just planted two weeks ago, I welcome the rain so I don’t have to water it a few times a week. It’s all leafed out now and looks beautiful. It’s also gonna get the HOA management company off my ass.
I failed an inspection in December. The inspector gigged me for weeds and improper edging allowing grass to creep in. I had just weeded and mulched all of my beds and didn’t know what the problem was. I called the management company and the lady I talked to said it was because I didn’t have anything growing in it. I had a maple tree cut down a few years ago ’cause it provided too much shade and the Bermuda grass doesn’t like shade. I asked her why she knew what the problem was and I didn’t? She really didn’t have a good answer but told me not to worry but to plant sumpin’ in the Spring. I was always planning on putting in a Japanese Maple and had had the stump ground and was waiting for the rest to rot out. So it’s in and has welcomed the rain.
On the downside, my thrift on the Great Berm of Dunwoody, didn’t bloom very long. It usually blooms a lot longer. I’ve got a beautiful ornamental cherry in the backyard that only blooms for a few days and this year the days were even fewer. It’s a real shame because it is really beautiful when it is in full bloom. A few years back, when my Mimosa tree died, the guy who took it down offered to take down the cherry tree as well. He said it had a fungus and was dying. I told him it was just restin’. Beautiful plumage the Norwegian blue ornamental cherry. It wasn’t dead. It was pining for the fjords. Sure enough, a year later parts of it bloomed and grew leaves. The dead parts I was able to snap off with my hands. To look at it now, you would never know how close it came to death.
Bereft of life, lol. That is an ex-ornamental cherry.
Those guys were genius.
HOAs God I hate those sorry things. Always jacking with people over very petty things. They should be outlawed.
If you’re into parrots (all you perverts) and with all due respect for Monty Python, I kinda prefer this option:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pN7nmzuvNc
Denny, I always wondered why folks like you and I agree to live in communities with HOA’s as they really do take away a lot of our rights as a property owner. On a positive note, I am currently on the HOA board in my community and I’m maintenance overseer. The home owners love this. When the few assholes call to complain about someones lawn, house, etc. I look at it, and as usual, it’s never a true problem, so I just tell folks don’t worry about it. Works quite well. Of course live way out here in the boon docks so we only have a few liberal asshole homeowners that think we should be more upscale. Fuck em. It’s the country god dammit and we’ll live like country folks.
When I first moved into this neighborhood it was brand new and the house was well nigh perfect for me since it is all on one level and has wide doors and I knew I would eventually go into a wheelchair full time. At first, all the neighbors (only 37 houses in the development) were really cool (we would have neighborhood parties in the cul de sacs) and we dealt with people on a one to one basis rather than hiding behind the management company as the HOA board does now. Unfortunately, all the cool people have moved out, many of them young people who wanted houses with basements. Things started going to pot when this one bitch moved in and wanted us to be East Cobb. She’s gone but many of her policies remain, e.g. hiding behind the management company. Had I known about HOAs when I bought this house it might have prevented me from buying it. Alas, this house is almost perfect and I plan to die in it unless forced to go into a nursing home or assisted living. I hate moving and I vowed that this would be my last move. Another thing is that no one really wants to be on the board so we wind up getting assholes. I served one year and I hated it. I resigned after six months because I didn’t like telling people what to do, especially if they are minor things.