Our HOA… grrrrr! Stupid lawn maintenance people chopped up the brand new soaker hose (along with killing every one of the bushes along the walkway to our front porch) last summer. So we had the HOA president out here a month or so ago to ask what we wanted to do… yank up the old dead bushes, their roots, and toss in some new dirt (dirt is 20 years old, I can’t imagine there’s much nutrients for plants in it).

At any rate, the agreement we made was that we were going to plant our own stuff there. I go out there today and the bastages have planted the entire thing up with some bushes… I don’t even know what they are. No new soil either… just overturned old dirt with tons of rocks and huge bits of the old bushes (GRRR). We were going to clean it up and just toss in our own dirt, and I wanted to plant some Carol Mackie Daphne, Hostas and a few other things and now I can’t.

I am not a happy camper at the moment. Really really really not happy.