So we got a letter from our friendly homeowner’s association yesterday telling us to water our lawn because it was getting too brown!  It’s JULY IN TEXAS, for Pete’s sake!  We could water our lawn everyday and it would still turn brown because it’s JULY IN TEXAS!  And I don’t live in some fancy North Austin place, no sir, I live in Bubbaland, South Austin, and our neighborhood is full of folks who have higher priorities in life than meticulous lawn care.  We just got a new management company, so we figure they’re trying to show what they can do by driving around and looking for unperfect lawns and then sending out letters.  Jeez!  I don’t have enough to worry about with both Tim and I being gone from 8:30am to 10pm every day with work and rehearsals, now I have to go out at 10, and instead of eating dinner or relaxing, I’ve got to water my lawn.  Damn Lawn Nazis! 

And we are supposed to get our lawn un-browned in 30 days.  What then?  What if, simply due to the Texas heat, the fact that our lawn is in full sun all day, and the fact that it’s on a rake, we have brown spots?  Should I buy some spray paint and paint the grass green?  Or put in fake grass like the crazy woman across the street who has put in fake flowers and a red, white and blue water fountain display with a flood light trained on it so you can bask in its marvelous glory 24/7?  THERE ARE BIGGER PROBLEMS IN THIS WORLD PEOPLE THAN BROWN GRASS!  Like water shortages, and the environment going to shit, and a war that we should never have started that nobody can win!  (Take that “Red, White and Blue family”!) 

AARGH!

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Comments

Kate Thomas Simpson

2005-08-02T01:07:58.000Z

Julie,

I think you should go with your green spray paint idea!  It’s so stupid that they’re getting upset that your grass isn’t green in the middle of summer!

love, Kate