Well, today we got a notice that our yard is a "public nuisance" and that we have to have it cleaned up in nine days or they'll shut off our services and condemn the house. x.=.x I got the junk picked up that the estate sale people so nicely left all over our yard - nearly 200 pounds of miscellaneous metal, broken stuff, and soggy boxes they left out in the rain. We don't have anywhere to throw it all away, so I just tossed it in the shed for now. -.=.-; They also complained about our hedge being overgrown (have no electric tools - I've been trimming it back a little every day with hand shears), the tall weeds (which I've been chopping down as fast as I can with the same shears), and the yard not being mowed. We got a mower last Saturday, but it's rained every other day since. We also hadn't been able to mow because the yard was too tall when we got here for the mower. I borrowed a friend's weed whacker and chopped the yard down to a reasonable height for the mower just a few days ago. If they had been paying any attention they would know we have done a TON of work on this place, but all they saw was that there were still tall plants and stuff sitting around.

SO... I did WAY more than I should have today and nearly collapsed in a heat stroke, and I'll probably be doing it again tomorrow if I can borrow a neighbor's hedge trimmer or get the mower going (btw, I have asthma and allergies to grass and the pollen from said hedge). Before we got the notice, I had already done more work than I should have in a day clearing out the garage because we need to get everything inside so I can set up the garage as a room for Anu before Melissa moves in. x.=.x

I'm pretty certain the only reason they even came by is because the really old people who live behind us hate Fenris and look for ways to call the city on us. They've tried to file noise complaints because he barks at them during the daytime and threatened to have our dogs taken away because we had five at one point (and Del City only allows four). We told them they couldn't because the law also says you can keep a dog's puppies until they are six months, so we got rid of the fifth (Freya, Fenris' daughter) when she turned six months. They're scared of Fenris, who is a total goof and sweetheart, because they think he looks dangerous and are scared of shepherds. But they're okay with our chihuahua who actually sent the guy to the hospital for stitches when he idiotically put his hand over the fence to pet Spike while he was jumping and barking at him.

I'm very tempted to get a pit bull and foster it from the shelter I work with just so we can really piss them off and they can't do anything about it. I also briefly contemplated chaining up their house and setting it on fire. >.=.<

If anyone wants to come over and help me do yard work, I'd appreciate it. x.=.x