What would get you kicked out of a planned community?

[hedgehog]

I'll go first; I put 32 pink flamingos on the lawn and then rearrange them on a regular basis just to keep people guessing.

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. The wood shed in the back yard.

:hi:

[hedgehog]

3. How bad is the shed?

Does it have paint? Is it a leaner?

[yellowdogintexas]

2. my compost heap most likely.

[hedgehog]

5. Dare I ask if you actually do your own gardening?

Perhaps even actually walk on your grass?

[yellowdogintexas]

19. yes and yes. Although my gardening has been severely

limited for the past 18 months by fibromyalgia and low back problems. So I do what I can.
My abundant trees provide me with tons of leaves which become the compost.

I have lots of iris and daylilies and cannas and other lilies.

The planned community would hate the inconsistency of my flowers, and the wildness of my sweet Autumn Clematis which is the kudzu of North Texas.

I call it Pinky and the Brain because I am sure it is planning to take over the world. But it blooms for the whole month of August and smells divine.

[hedgehog]

21. My gardening was kuput for two years

I worked such crazy hours on temp jobs that I never saw it. When I wasn't working I was sleeping. I hope the fibromylagia doesn't keep you pinned down too much this summer.

[yellowdogintexas]

36. it comes and goes. Today it came ...achy all day.

My schedule the past year hasn't helped either.

I do need to do some weeding, and I have some iris to replant that were removed when we had an old tree stump removed.

[miss_american_pie]

4. The faded plastic kid toys in the yard

:hi:

[hedgehog]

6. How old are the kids?

[miss_american_pie]

7. 4 and 1

[hedgehog]

16. Do you have fun finding the toys with the lawn mower?

[miss_american_pie]

17. That's hubby's job

I have fun finding the legos at night with my bare feet. ;)

[hedgehog]

18. My youngest is 15 and I'm still finding Legos!

On the other hand, my oldest has a BS in Mechanical and Chemical Engineering and his sister has her BS in Civil Engineering with a BA in Archeology!

[evlbstrd]

8. Moving in.

Or the pickup on blocks that my dad left me.

[begin_within]

9. My habit of lighting fireworks

[Briarius]

10. the 50' tower with a bunch of antennas

I can dream, can't I? :D

[AlCzervik]

11. car up on blocks.

[hedgehog]

15. You must be one of those uppity folks I hear about

My husband just parks the cars behind the barn and strips them from there. No fancy city slicker blocks for him!

[Droopy]

12. My constant M&M and Diet Coke hoarding.

[no name no slogan]

13. My constant tire burning

what can I say, it keeps the mosquitos away.

[ZombieNixon]

14. Mooning passerby.

Or sex with the windows open.

[erinlough]

20. Just about everything I love in my backyard

like my pond, my water feature, my little cabin, and of course there's this "tool shed" my husband made for me:


and this:


I could NEVER live in one.

[hedgehog]

22. I don't think anyone "lives" in a planned community.

It's just a place to sleep until it's time to turnover the real estate. People want their homes to be "different"but they're scared to death when someone's home really is! I love your yard. Thanks for the pictures!

[yellowdogintexas]

37. cool, you have a labyrinth.

[sarge43]

23. A herd of goats might do the trick

A match set of lunched out 70's muscle cars scattered around the yard

One of those little boy peeing statues

Disco playing full blast past 8pm -- on second thought, any time of day

Walking around your yard in your underwear, scratching your nether regions

Dressing up in a Napoleonic uniform and barking back at the neighbor's dog

Projecting old Godzilla movies on the side of the garage

[Blue_Tires]

24. what exactly is a 'planned community?'

is that anything like a gated community? (and WHAT is the appeal of those, anyway? I've been seeing more and more crop up around here)

[LynzM]

29. I would probably define it as a group of homes built concurrently

Where the whole community is planned and built at once, instead of growing one house at a time.

I think the appeal is the appearance of security, of not having any of 'those' people (whoever/whatever you want to define them as, in your head) in your neighborhood, for a lot of people. Planned. Stable. Pretty. Controlled. Secure. Ugh.

[Blue_Tires]

32. oh i get it

those sterile, soulless faux-high-class mcmansions that i've been seeing in nearly every city of every state?? yeah, they are pretty pukeworthy

[Canadian Socialist]

25. There was an X-Files episode about this

called "Arcadia". Rather funny in a dark way.

[skygazer]

26. The "extra" washer and dryer on the deck

The several partial sheets of 3/4 inch plywood leaning up against the dilapidated fence.
The two gun safes and the boxes of stuff that are on top of them.
My attitude.

[In_The_Wind]

27. My parrots!

You can hear them a block away.

[SofaKingLiberal]

28. The parties

:evilgrin:

[Brigid]

30. I think somebody saw "The Daily Show" Thursday

They had a segment on this. I've heard that many of these types of communities have very restricitive convenants. I think if I put a huge anti-Bush sign in my front yard that would get me kicked out.

[jukes]

31. i'd

never be accepted in the 1st place.

[Random_Australian]

33. If I were in a planned community I would start killing people.

Would that get me kicked out?

[Rabrrrrrr]

34. My democraticunderground bumper sticker

and my intelligence, and my well-dressed-ness -- all marks of a liberal, which a planned community ain't agonna want.

[name not needed]

35. Cutting a hole in the wall and murdering your neighbors might do it

[DanCa]

38. I got kicked out of the catholic church does that count?

But to answer your question I would paint my house day glow orange with lime trim.