Sometimes, people amaze me.  And not always in a good way.  If you’re paid to do a job, do it right. Don’t cut corners just because you think no one is watching.

We’ve lived here since July, and we’ve never seen the neighbors on either side of us.  The ones across the street and two houses down have become really good friends of mine, and I’m so thankful for that.  They’re awesome neighbors.

Facing the house, the one to my right has a chain-link gate that keeps a cute dog in the backyard, but there’s a dip between our houses that fills with water each time it rains.  Their backyard flooded the other day when it rained.   Not the kind of flood that was coming through their door or anything, but the kind of flooding that allows you to see just how much rain has come down.  The kind of flooding where you can see the water on top of the grass, and you’d probably not want to get out there in it because it would be up past your ankles.

Unless you’re a lawn guy.

Lawn guys are relentless.  I know they have a schedule that they have to keep and rain can’t keep them from that schedule or they’d get off, miss someone’s yard, and miss getting paid for that week.  These guys come like clockwork. Come rain, shine, snow, or flooding.. they are there.

Don’t let the brightness of this photo fool you, because another band of heavy rain followed right after I took this photo (I was leaving my house).  When I got back, I noticed the lawn guys were there, and they were blowing through the backyard on their heavy duty professional lawn mowers, slinging water everywhere.  I am really surprised that they didn’t rut up the yard this time, like they did a couple of months ago. Click on the link if you need to learn more about lot clearing and how it can help enhance your property. If you have trees in your yard that need to be trimmed or even cut down, you may need to hire a tree service Lynchburg company.

When I went to get the baby out of his carseat, I noticed that the dude in the front yard was blowing the leaves that weren’t picked up by the lawnmower…… in MY yard.

I walked over and asked him why he was blowing them in my yard, and he just looked at me like I was an idiot.  So I asked him again.  The next thing I know, he gets angry with ME for saying something about it, and yells to the guy in the back, spouting off something in Spanish (cussing me, no doubt), and he motioned toward the front yard.  I went in the house, thinking the guy on the mower would just come to the front and go over all of the bright red leaves that the other guy had just blown in my yard.  Problem solved.

Only, I was wrong.  I left, later, to go pick up Kylie from school, and the guy had blown even MORE leaves into my yard, and just left.

So the question is… Do I wait until Andy’s home when they do it again and have him go out and say something to him (he doesn’t speak Spanish either), or do I go introduce myself to the neighbors I’ve never met, and just say.. “By the way, can you tell your yard guys that you don’t pay them to sweep their mess into my yard?”

What would you do?