There hasn't been an appropriate time to mention this: my neighbor (aka The Cow Next Door) sold her house and is moving to an apartment today. From what I've been told by another neighbor, the hassle of getting someone to take care of her yard was too much (they probably wanted more than a dollar an hour, lol!) and her son was becoming increasingly tired of constantly being called to fix stuff around her house or find someone to do it. This woman has been a mean old bugger ever since we moved in--I'll spare you most of the Clyde Edgertonesque details.

The new neighbors are said to be a couple from "up North" (which can mean anywhere from the Virginia border on up). They are moving here to be close to their daughter who is a nurse at Duke. I know this sounds like Famous Last Words, but they cannot possibly be as bad as TCND has been. (This is the one who said she would like to hold my face in the rainwater which collected at the bottom of my driveway when it rains heavily, thanks to her blocking my drainage. And, no, I coudn't get the city to do anything because her son knows the right people.)

I asked Sweetie if he thought it would be appropriate for me to sit on a garden bench and watch the moving, setting off a bottle rocket as she drove off. He didn't think I should. Damn. Maybe I can play the Valkyries thing at full blast. British national anthem? (She hates foreigners, especially Yankees.) He thought if I just did a "superiority dance" in the driveway, it would suffice. Maybe I'll take a photo!

-- Anonymous, October 22, 2001

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Congratulations, Git! Hope it was worth the wait.

Apparently Sweetie has no sense of humor after your anthrax bottle. (Has he settled that score yet??)

-- Anonymous, October 22, 2001

congratulations, Git!

Maybe you could sit on the porcelian throne in your front yard to watch? LOL

Do you have a recording of Ding Dong, The Witch is Dead?

LOL

Enjoy the day, and mark it on your calendar so you can celebrate it each year!

-- Anonymous, October 22, 2001

Actully, Sweetie has a GREAT sense of humor. For instance, he actually demonstrated the superiority dance. (You should have been here.) As for payback, he doesn't bother. He knows I can best him every time and is smart enough to blow it off.

-- Anonymous, October 22, 2001

do a little dance...make a little love...GET DOWN TONIGHT!!!!

Now, IF ONLY WE could be so lucky!!!!!!

I'd do like BF says, sit on the porcilin throne and THEN do the "Happy dance!!!"

-- Anonymous, October 22, 2001

Congrats! I recommend "accidently" spilling some sugarwater (or other solution that attracts wasps/bees) on the tailgate of the moving van, then sit on your throne and watch the fun!

-- Anonymous, October 22, 2001

I'd forgotten about the throne. Unfortunately, it's not in her line of sight, otherwise I'd open up a big newspaper and sit there (after removing the begonias), reading it. It would be fun to take down that part of the fence bordering the carport and retaining wall so that when she drives by to check on things (which she will), she can see it's gone and know for certain we put it up just to block her view of us and our view of her. (We put it up because every time we sat on the patio, she would come to that part of her yard and start trimming shrubs already terrorized into shape, snuffling away like a pig after truffles, and trying to listen to what we said.)

She has been thoroughly unpleasant and doesn't just dislike cats, she despises them!

-- Anonymous, October 22, 2001

Hooray for you and your DH (as well as your kitties)! There is just "something wrong" with people who don't like cats. And if ya do take a picture, you HAVE TO post it!!!

-- Anonymous, October 22, 2001

Dammit, I missed the moving truck's second trip! But I shall be working outside tomorrow and will keep an eye on things--she may come back to clean or something, although I doubt it--that's not the norm around here. (Don't get me started on the fridge and toilets when we moved in here. . .) But she may come back, just to make sure she hasn't left anything, like the toilet paper. LOL! When we looked at this house, I KNOW there was toilet paper in at least one bathroom cos I used it. The day we moved in, not only were the toilet paper holders empty but the mailbox had been taken too!!! Y'all HAVE to read Clyde Edgerton's Walking Across Egypt and one or two of his other books.

-- Anonymous, October 22, 2001

people down south ways take the mailbox with them so their relatives can find them in the new place.

[it has the address on it.]

-- Anonymous, October 23, 2001

OG,

Congrats!!! Might I suggest a *serious* outdoor fumigation once the "queen rat" has left the vicinity? :D

-- Anonymous, October 23, 2001