Forgot it was a holiday (go me).

[helen99]

Today was a government holiday but I forgot to check whether or not my company actually had a holiday or not, so I went in to work anyway. Nobody was there. The hallway was spooky and dark, and not even the fan was on. I turned on the light in my office and fired up the computer. No messages from anyone. I prepared and submitted a weekly report that would have been due sometime tomorrow to avoid having to get in early tomorrow to finish it on time. Then I left around noon. I can't believe I didn't know it was a holiday. Actually I'm glad, though, since I got the report done. After I came back home, I finally got a chance to do some basic maintenance yardwork (trimming, mowing, sweeping the driveway, walkways, and gutters, and whatever else it takes for the city to forget about harassing me for another month...)

Comments

[imieisegreti.livejournal.com]

I did that once! But I was happy to see that I was not the only one showing up to the office on a day when we were supposed to be off! *laughs* But, either way, sometimes it's easier to get work done when you are alone with nobody to bother you.

Code Enforcement on your tail? *laughs* Yuckie!

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Not so much recently.. In the past couple of years there was a citizens association president who was a stickler for well kept lawns. I don't believe in lawns, so we had a slight disagreement. He took to following up on every complaint about my yard (or maybe it was the president himself who did the complaining - whoever it was never talked to me about it). Every time, the code enforcement guy would come by, couldn't find anything illegal (there are no weeds, just a lot of trees and ivy), and would tell me to clean the gutters and leave.

It wasn't a matter of whether or not my yard violated codes - it doesn't. However, the spirit of the codes is violated all to heck... If you walk down my street, you see a row of well-kept lawns and a few shrubs, maybe a tree. Then you get to my yard, which consists of a small forest with mulched paths wending their way through it. Most people love that - but all it takes is one complainer and the association feels obligated to follow up on it.

Luckily, the person who was the citizen's association president was replaced by a woman who likes us. Nowadays, whenever one of these things comes up, instead of sending enforcement after us, she gives us a heads up and handles it herself. Rather than have whoever it is call her and bother her, I try to keep at least the outside looking halfway "normal" (it doesn't really look normal, but it's nice and neat)!

Yards of Forest

[imieisegreti.livejournal.com]

Yay for a change of hands! As people, we do tend, sometimes, to get hung up on the silliest things, don't we? And who says 'normal' is great? Personally, I like a yard that is like a forest! *laughs*

Re: Yards of Forest

[helen99.livejournal.com]

What I really wish is that I could convert all the houses adjacent to my hard into a woods (including my yard), and rebuild the house in the middle of the woods with natural materials so it flows with the land. I could give the house some room around it so it could get some sun. The clearing would be a pretty little glen with sunlight and a garden surrounded by a block of forest. I think that would work best. Unfortunately (aside from the fact that I'd have to find buried pirate treasure to finance this) I'd get taxed into the next solar system if I had that much land in the middle of the city. It would be so cool though...

Re: Yards of Forest

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Urk - that was supposed to be "yard", not "hard".

Re: Yards of Forest

[imieisegreti.livejournal.com]

I understood what you meant. *grins* And I think such a set up would be wonderful! But taxes. Yuck. And they can't even do anything good with the money they tax you on!