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Grrrr. So, our landscaper suddenly feels it necessary to rearrange all of our lawn Halloween decorations (and there are more than a few)!!
Ok, let me explain this a little. By "landscaper" I mean the landscaping company that we have that sends two guys over once a week to mow our lawn (and luckily rake the leaves in the fall). I think this might be a Jersey thing...or maybe just a local thing. A lot of our neighbors throughout the development have similar companies. And our lawns are not large. Those that are self-mowers don't even invest in ride-on mowers because there really isn't enough land. It's not laziness. It's just the Jersey mindset of being too busy doing other things. So, hire people to take care of the non-essentials and you have more time for the rest (like sitting in rush hour traffic and inventing new curse words when the person in front of you isn't going 5 mph over the limit). We even have companies (at least 3 different ones I can think of off the top of my head) that come around to clean up your yard if you have dogs. But, I digress.
This is the SECOND week in a row that our landscaper has suddenly decided to uproot the Halloween decorations in our yard that have been there for the past 3 & 1/2 weeks! And, of course, everything they uproot, they pile nicely for us on the middle of the gigantic blow-up decoration we keep deflated during the day. This means that I get to try to find all the holes I've already made in the ground and get it all back together after they leave. Not fun for me.
What are these decorations they keep moving on me? Well, in one part of the yard, we have a graveyard that I've lovingly expanded upon over the past few years. I'm up to 13 tombstones. I arrange them nicely, add a bail of hay, a skull, a buzzard, hands sticking out of the ground, oh, and a grim reaper that hangs from a tree and floats over the graves.
Near to this is our huge blow-up...and I do mean huge! Saw it at a warehouse club and couldn't resist! It's about 6 feet tall and 11 feet long. The scene is a zombie playing an organ. On each side, under an arch, is a zombie couple. It's rather elaborate, with blinking lights, music (which is turned off till Halloween night), and the couples spin slowly in a dance.
Halloween is my favorite holiday. I begin celebrating and decorating on October 1st. And it takes more than one weekend to get everything set up (especially since I'm constantly adding stuff whenever I hit up the Halloween stores). So, having somebody come and mess it all up (taking out the spotlights that shine on the graveyard and the blow-up and removing some of the stakes that keep the blow-up in place, moving a few of the tombstones, etc), is not a good thing.
Consequently, there was an angry phone call made, including the threat of "you're people break it, you buy it". Let's hope it helps, shall we? Otherwise, anybody got a monster I can borrow to scare the hell outta these guys? Or something along those lines...
All I know is if they start messing with the stuff I have on my porch, all bets are off!
Current Location: Looking out my window
Current Mood: 
aggravated
aggravatedCurrent Music: This Is Halloween (Nightmare Before Christmas sound track)
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