Weeds in The Flower Beds!

Joyous

Monday Morning

To YOU

Sending you

Tulips and Redbuds this morning

and

a morning

to

DANCE ON THE DESKS

and the tables

and

wherever you might be!

Oh it's a morning of fun here

now that I'm over the letter I opened after my latest trip to the cold of Nebraska and Iowa!

Of course while there I was told that 29 degrees is not really what one calls cold out there, as they are having a very mild time of January!!!

Love it!

One persons perception is not always the reality

of others...

Speaking of reality

and

speaking of letters

and

speaking of joyous

...

AND

speaking of the title of todays

thoughts

...

Bear with me

it will all come together I'm sure

well

maybe not

for all, after all

perception is often the lens in which we see things

and

I am convinced that some see things

just through a very strange lens!

I opened a letter from a place

called

"INTEGRITY MANAGEMENT"

once home from my trip this weekend.

They are the folks

who are in charge of writing the letters from the

home owners association

also known

as the folks that have nothing to do other than

get in the business of others here in our neighborhood.

You know the ones

the association that you pay enormous amount of money to each year to keep the neighborhood "nice"

whatever that means.

I suspect the huge check that gets written keeps the

grounds mowed

however you still need to mow your own yard

and powerwash your sidewalk and driveway

but

I still haven't figured out what they do with the check that gets sent out each year.

Other than perhaps have a group of people walk through the neighborhood and then compile a useless letter of

the likes that I received

and

then promply

"went off" after reading it!

So,

I receive this letter from a place called

INTEGRITY

which tells me

I am in "violation"

and tells me

*paint or clean your mailbox

*CLEAN THE WEEDS FROM YOUR FLOWER BEDS

*trash bags are in front of your house

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Please take care of these things as you are in violation!!!

I re read it

and

then I felt cold chills go off in my brain.

ARE YOU FOR REAL?

...

oH HEAVENS not the mailbox?

They are concerned about the mailbox being cleaned or painted?

The very same mailbox that resembles so many within our community that have been the victims of punks that live in the neighborhood who get their thrills by beating them with baseball bats?

Surely they should have been sitting up little hideouts to catch these kids rather than walking the neighborhood on a sunny day writing notes on those of us who have been the victims of their teens who are the ones doing the deeds?

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Maybe the money we shell out each year can go into a fund to replace the posts!!!

Now there is a plan whose time has come!

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Weeds in the flower beds?

In January when the beautiful flowers are not in bloom?

Can you even imagine such a terrible thing?

And to put it in a letter of "violation"

Those suburbanites!!!

Go figure.

What if it is really a "weed garden" and a stray flower was put there by an over zealous bird?

The Creator doesn't make us get rid of folks who are less than perfect, yet they are saying I have to exterminate my less than perfect growings of the Creator?

What in the world has the association now deemed itself able o do here?

Have they lost their ever lovin mind?

If it is so very offensive to them, perhaps they should not come onto MY property, up my sidewalk and gaze into my

flower/weed garden

and

then write their notes

and

send

Integrity a letter, only then to have

Integrity send me a letter of violation.

Ah, I think I am beginning to see where my yearly association monies are going to ...

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Trash bags in front of my house?

Well

How bout' being a good neighbor and taking them to the curb

after all the trash runs on Monday

and

those bags were filled with yard clippings from the over grown bushes and

freaking WEEDS

...

They were sitting there from the yard work of the weekend

waiting to go to the curb.

YOU IDIOTS!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6P7g_qz2OU&feature=related

Perhaps they just need to

DANCE

or

to not be so wooly in their attempts at

being

BULLIES!

.,.

It may behoove you to take care of your OWN yards

and

your own business

and

stay out of those of your neighbors.

...

I understand fully why people do not like living in

deed restricted home own association neighborhoods.

Hell I didn't know what one was

UNTIL I MOVED HERE!

Of course

mine was not the only letter opened this week or over the weekend...

Sandy and Stu next door

the home of the fire?

Well they were raked over coals over their roof

still not repaired.

BUT no neighbor bothered to ask about the progress

the damages

that continue to be repaired.

The roof

"offended" them that it is not perfect.

They have been working their fingers and backs and spirits to the bone to restore within so that they can lay down at night in the idea of being back in their home safely.

I really doubt that they go outside at night and gaze up at the roof look to be reminded of what has been.

They are well aware of what has yet to be done!

...

I can only imagine that they joined me with a

"voice mail" message

of

INTEGRITY

to

INTEGRITY

...

I can imagine that they also had a good time

wadding that paper up

and throwing it in the trash when finished!

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As for my

"weeds"

I plan on letting them be for now,

they are doing just fine where they are

and

it just might be that they are protecting some lovely things that are trying to grow

and for that matter they may just grow themselves

into what I think is lovely!

...

The mailbox holds mail

and

does it need cleaning?

Probably... it's on the list.

I see no trash bags, and if the village who is filled with idiots would have thought before they lept,

they would have saved their ink

knowing the trash was running the next day!

OR

they could have been a good neighbor

and

taken it to the curb.

BUT

then again,

the "patrol of those who want to judge"

probably do not reach out to care, nor to help

it's not in their DNA.

The moral of the

story?

Let weeds be weeds

and

let others do what they do

as long as it does not harm you!

If you see where you may lend a hand

imagine how good that will feel not only to you

but

to another!

Aren't those tulips just lovely

and

what a great day to

REJOICE

to

be

JOYOUS

and

to

STAND WITH INTEGRITY

...

Walk in Beauty

DRSES

author of

HEALING HEARTACHES, Stories of Loss and Life

and

ohhh what a life it is!

www.drsherryeshowalter.com