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Another thing that happened Saturday night: Kevin and Alaina forked our lawn.
One set of Lori's friends from high school has this tradition of sticking plastic dinner forks upright in people's lawns.
We had expected to have our lawn thus decorated ever since we bought the house and had a lawn of our own.
And Saturday night, it finally happened. We woke up on Sunday to find about 50 forks upright in our front lawn. Plus a purple dragon figurine and a laughing rabbit figurine.
Whee!
One set of Lori's friends from high school has this tradition of sticking plastic dinner forks upright in people's lawns.
We had expected to have our lawn thus decorated ever since we bought the house and had a lawn of our own.
And Saturday night, it finally happened. We woke up on Sunday to find about 50 forks upright in our front lawn. Plus a purple dragon figurine and a laughing rabbit figurine.
Whee!
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Date: 2001-08-27 08:08 am (UTC)So, how are relations with the neighbors?
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Date: 2001-08-27 11:14 am (UTC)Relations with the neighbors seem okay. We keep meaning to invite our new neighbors over for dinner, but we'd like to get the house clean, first.
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Date: 2001-08-27 11:05 am (UTC)However, I've seen pranks get way out of hand. TP, Forks.. onion rings, and other ringed objects around the forks, rice or flower in the lawn/flowerbeds. *sigh* Funny to hear about when your in the High School Cafeteria, but now as I homeowner I shudder at the damage. And thats just the calm stuff.
However, I always love hearing stories of my firend, who attempt to do things like this but always ended up doing something stupid on the way there. Like trying to 'ditch' a cop that didnt even notice them.. until they sped off around a corner. Or turning cookies in a parking lot and crashing into a curb enough to pop the seal on the tire.
Then again, these are also the guys that set their own lawn on fire, so I dont know why I would be amazed.
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Date: 2001-08-27 11:21 am (UTC)It's a reasonably good compromise between puckishness and avoiding damage.
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Date: 2001-08-27 11:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2001-08-27 12:00 pm (UTC)I filed this thought away.
I did not produce little knit hats and scarves; that would have been too obvious. (Besides, I lack any relevant skills.) However, come spring, when the stores start carrying Easter stuff, I bought some of those two-part plastic eggs and agumented her lawn. I had been searching for *small* flamingos; my plan was for the eggs to hatch and for baby flamingos to grow up over the course of the summer. Sadly, I couldn't find small plastic flamingos, and the small cardboard ones I found (in only one size) didn't hold up very well. So the eggs did hatch, but the results were underwhelming.
However, after the eggs appeared she told me about this development and I pretended to be surprised, and she was speculating about what this group of (in this case blameless) friends would do to her next. It was pretty amusing to watch, and did no actual harm.
Of course, if Sharon ever finds LiveJournal, I'm dead. :-)
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Date: 2001-08-27 12:58 pm (UTC)I'll have to go looking at lawn gnomes, I think I know someone that is going to have a sudden infestation.