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Nice to meet you Anita. I like my neighbours fine. Marty and Lorrie next
door are patient with me and my gardening hobby. We help each other out with
heavy work around the yard.
Hope your garden grows like crazy!
bill missen.
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Speaking
about neighbors....
I stared renting this house that I'm in now back
in
January. The new neighborhood is filled with retirees
with just
a few "youngin's" (we're the youngest couple
in the block). I thought that
maybe my neighbors were
stuck-up or something because during the first
2
months, not ONE neighbor came over to say hi.
But then we
started to put in the garden. The
neighbor behind us stuck his head
over the fence the
weekend we were building frames and digging up
the
ground and asked what the *&%$* we were doing. I took
a
few minutes to explain the theory behind sq. ft
gardening. His
reaction, "You ain't gonna grow
anything in that soil, missy." Well,
duh! It's FL
beach clay! But I explained that we were digging
out
all the "icky" dirt and replacing it with a more
nutritious
combination.
Another stopped his car in front of our house
one
evening while we were on "weed patrol" and wished us
luck. "I
can't never get rid of those darn weeds in
my yard."
And yesterday,
the young man that lives next to us (he
and his girlfriend are the next
youngest on the block)
stopped Rob while he was watering the garden.
He
asked what we were doing and why were we growing in
boxes and how do
we know that it'll work and what were
we growing and what were we expected
to get....He kept
poor Rob busy until I got home an hour later.
Seems
that he wants to start a garden too but it seemed to
be just too
much work. I promised that he could borrow
Mel's book this
weekend.
Hmmm...well, even if I don't get any good veggies out
of
this garden this year, atleast it got my neighbors
to talk to me!
(It was explained to us last night that the last
tenants were
obnoxious pigs that had 2 little dogs
that destroyed everything and kept
everyone up at
night. AND they never took care of the
yard...the
neighbor was mumbling something about waist-high weeds
on the
front yard. WOW!!!!!)
Oops...I'm droning along. And it's 8
AM. Gotta get
to work!
Annie
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