Is It My Yard or Is it My Neighbors’ –

I had to blog this; I thought this was hilarious, well at least for me it was. Ok, not sure if anyone else reading this might be aware, but in the city of San Diego, there is an ordinance on the usage of water, or better yet watering your grass. You see we are in a drought and they designated certain days of the week for people to water their grass. Well, my grass since then has gotten brown, dry…it doesn’t look all that bad, but I had the greenest yard in the neighborhood and well it looks semi brown. Anyhow, so I did a little research and have tried this before with my grass, and what I do works for me, ok…so I was letting the grass grow since this past December, it didn’t look like a jungle, especially since the draught the grass really wasn’t growing, plus I have no weeds…really I don’t. So anyhow…there were a few patches on my lawn that for some reason was noticeably bushier than the rest of my lawn, but once again it was much taller than half the distance towards my knee…not to tall. Plus that area was green. Why was I allowing it to grow taller was, to protect the roots/ground from drying up…I was trying to create some shade…so the little water that it was getting would ,maintain a bit longer. If the grass is to short the Sun would hit directly closer to the roots of the grass, turning it brown or drying it up completely.

So anyhow, Yesterday I picked up my son to drop him off to a birthday party, well this was around 1:20 or so…anyhow I get back to the house around 4:30pm…and low-an-behold someone had cut my grass… mean they cut it down to almost the dirt…I totally freaked out. You see I have several neighbors that have a different type of grass than I do, theirs looks almost like a thin rug…no strands…ok I don’t know the name, but my grass is Kentucky Blue grass, plush and longer strands so you can’t cut my grass like theirs. Anyhow, I don’t know who did it or why they did it, but if it had anything to do with it looking bad, which it didn’t, they could have knocked on the door and said something, at which point an explanation of why the grass was long could have been provided or maybe they thought they were doing us a favor, of course nice gesture but once again it was cut wrong…now to make things worst they did a very BAD job in cutting it anyhow…I mean seriously if you drove by you’d think that whom ever cut it needed glasses…badly.

So I ask, was it ok for a neighbor to simply cut my grass without asking me? I told a co-worker and they said I should knock on everyone’s door until I find who did it, I thought I should wait, since I will need to let it grow again, and if it happens again then at that point find out who did it. Crazy, and to think people are broke or in a tight bind every where and to come over and cut someone else’s grass, using up gas or electricity…having to dump the clippings…come one…crazy. Ok, well got that of my chest - LOL.

Thanks again for reading, Latino Man signing off till next time.