A few days ago I dragged my lazy homeowner self outside and swept our front walkway. Covered with large, elephant ear-esque leaves, no one could find a patch of clear sidewalk to walk on… until I swept, that is. I jokingly asked my next door neighbors is they wanted to borrow my rake, insinuating that they weren’t keeping up with their yard well enough.
Wednesday I awoke to the very odd effects of what I like to call The South Eighth Street Wind Tunnel. Nary a leaf to be found in anyone’s yards, on anyone’s sidewalks, but mine. In our yard? The most enormous pile of elephant ears, purposely put there by some divine nature.
Coincidence? I think not.
5 Comments
sarah Nov 15, 2003 10:02 AM
hehe…i can see it now: all of your neighbors getting up in the middle of the night, sneaking over to your yard, and dumping all of their leaves onto your lawn. it was a secret conspiracy that they’ve been cooking up ever since the first leaf fell, and they’ve just now carried out their evil plot. and the plan worked brilliantly, brilliantly, i say! bwahaha!
bethany Nov 15, 2003 11:04 AM
to sarah:
*homestar runner voice*
yeah….you’we weiwd.
rebecca Nov 15, 2003 4:19 PM
sarah, that’s EXACTLY what i thought as i swept (again!) this afternoon! i thought, ‘they’re all probably laughing at me right now because i’m a doofus who believes this enormously huge pile was created by natural causes!’
lindsay Nov 15, 2003 10:14 PM
ah…the ironies of life. (:
charity Nov 17, 2003 9:47 AM
That would be funny if we were actually clever enough to think of something like that to do to you!