“Doh…You’re doin’ it wrong!”

I had one of those moments today.  I was walking in my gorgeous neighborhood.  Have I told you about how much I love my neighborhood?  Let’s take a birdwalk for a moment..shall we?

My neighborhood is the absolute perfect place to live.  My house isn’t grand on any level.  It is a very modest 1800 square foot tri-level.  There really isn’t anything distinguishing about it, except maybe our yard.  We have a great backyard for living in the city, complete with a creek, room for a massive garden, and  a great gate.  If something happened to my home, I think that I would insist on just rebuilding right on this same plot.  In fact, if all we could afford was a 1000 square foot home, I think I would settle b/c I just don’t think I could move away from this section of town!  We live on the first street of an older subdivision.  Most of the homes were probably built in the 80s and 90s.  The houses on our street were from the 70s and then they seem to have kept expanding up a hill to the Country Club golf course.  If you go up the street to the golf course, there are about 3 sub streets in between our street and the golf course street.  As you go up the hill, the houses get more extravegant and taxes get higher.  But the thing I love about these houses is that each one is so unique!  They all have a certain style of architecture and they are sooooo beautiful to look at.  They yards are all beautifully kept because they have groundskeepers.  In fact, the houses on the actual golf course road are required to pay some fee to someone and their yards are mowed for them so that they get done on the same day.  And it is so eerily quiet…you feel like you are walking on some resort!  No one drives through at 5:30 in the morning.  Everyone is either out walking exchanging pleasentries, or on vacation I suppose.  I mean, if you can afford a house like that, surely you spend a few weeks of the summer “countryside!”   I feel as though I am regular “townsfolk” who can only afford to live on the outskirts of the kingdom.  But that’s okay…my kids have a safe place to ride their bikes and I have a quiet and beautiful place to walk.  (See fitness journal)

 

Okay back on track.  So I am walking on the golf course road and it is raining.  It is starting to come down pretty heavily.  All of a sudden about 5 of these beautiful houses have sprinklers that kick on to water their yards!  Are they all on the same system or something?  I don’t know.  What a waste of water (green side of me says).  What a waste of money (cheap side of me says).  Well, maybe they are on vacation and don’t know it is raining (the less judgmental side of me says). So I started thinking…if these people are this rich, surely they can afford sprinklers with some sort of sensor that knows when it is raining. Do they make those? If not, someone is going to get rich doing it, because these people can more than afford it.  Hmmm…I wish I were more “crafty.”

Anyway, this was a random thought….by Cinturon!

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