Oct 23, 2009
Yet Another Little Known Fact
Yesterday, Bossy’s mom said the front of Bossy’s house had what Bossy’s mom likes to call the freshly divorced look. Guess Bossy better clean out the garden beds before the real estate agents start sniffing around.
In other news, who doesn’t need a mom like Bossy’s?
That is like my mother saying back when I was pregnant, and I told her we were having a boy but she really wanted a girl, “OH! Maybe it will be both!” Seriously? What did she wish on my kid? At best she was hoping he would be a gay boy. Moms.
I have nerve considering that the rear of my property looks like “Grey Gardens”….
In the Summer we often have what I call “foreclosure lawn”
I’m with BossysMom! My backyard looks like Grey Gardens that has been attacked by a very rambunctious Irish Wolfhound mix.
All the pots on my rear balcony look like that too. I think about taking care of it every day when I come home from work, but it just seems like so much… work.
–>Bossy can deadhead those black eyed susan and purple coneflower seeds for the Spring and replant. The Poverty Party would celebrate.
My flower boxes look the same here.
Does this mean Bossy will be leaving her bed?!
That’s the great thing about moms–they tell it like it is.
If Bossy’s lawn is “freshly divorced”, mine is “recent nuclear holocaust survivor.”
Are you hinting at something Bossy? Is that why you’ve taken to your bed – are you getting divorced?
Have some Mother/Daughter time….have your Mom over for coffee and brunch and present her with a new pair of gardening gloves and you guys and knock out the front yard together! I just wish I had a Mom to nag me!
What Dee said. I had that thought too when I read this.
I think it looks like all the love is being expressed on the inside of the house.
This by a girl who only gardens when she is -um- “maritally” frustrated.
Go ahead and just leave it like this until after the 31st. Some folks pay big bucks to achieve this look for Halloween.
I’m just going to blurt it out — are you getting divorced? If so, I am so very, very sorry.
That’s why I like apartment life. Too much work to upkeep a yard.
I am hoping that wasn’t some foreshadowing…..
My back yard looks like the moon..craters and all. Just one word… Dogs.
Love em!
I have 100 feet of garden between street and house that looks like that, and me with back issues now so I think my physical therapist would be on my case if I were to deal with it.
Drape some spider webs around, pumpkins, a witch peeking out of a windowbox, and say “I meant it to look like this.” That’ll work for the next week at least.
Just looked up Grey Gardens. hadn’t heard of that before. Has anyone seen the documentary? Worth Net-flix-ing, do you think?
The house we’re in now was previously occupied by a divorcing family; everything outside was dead or dying, as I’m sure they felt inside. We had to breathe lots of life back into the place. It’s an astute metaphor. Your mom rocks.
Re: Grey Gardens. Get the original Maysls’ documentary first, then see the HBO movie with Drew and Jessica. Both wonderful if a little horrifying.
I can identify with you like never before…
THat last shot is gorgeous!!!
Love it…
BB
This completely depressed me. Is it May yet?
Bossy’s house looks like the front of my house. But it’s 45 degrees out there with 30 mph gusts. I’m staying in.
THAT is the “It’s Time to Put Grandma in the Nursing Home of My Choice” look.
I am with everyone else divorce sucks, moms are great, and hang in there if that is the case. Even when it is for the best it is still awful.