I HATE cutting grass.

I used to enjoy taking care of my lawn. Now I enjoy relaxing with a cigar while someone else does it.

The latter is SO much better.

As I continue to read this thread, I again must say:

This is exactly why I live in an area with a homeowners association.

Nice lawns, nice houses.

Keep your weed and insect filled lawns, your junk cars, your inflated aboveground wal-mart pools, in your own neighborhoods where the option to use or not use skirting, still exists.

google maps my neighborhood, and check out 11210 Moonvalley Way, Tampa, FL, 33635. This is my neighborhood. Use the street view function and look around. You can just use this too.

http://tinyurl.com/rcvplg 

No it is not my exact address, but it is my subdivision and is 1 minute by foot from my house.

My HOA fees are about $350.00 a year. Well worth the street lights, relatively low mosquito population, nice quiet neighbors, sidewalks, etc...

I take pride in my house, got only one notice to replace or paint my mailbox. They were right, it looked like crap.

Nice grass is called personal pride. Won't find any piss stained carpet in my house either.

Gringo

and the car with the big dent in the side sure adds class too

^I would never join a Homeowner's Association that would have me as a member.

Seriously.......I like to pee outside, neglect my lawn, light things on fire, walk around in my underpants, etc.

Right now I have a TV in my lawn.

I kinda like cutting the grass and working around in the yard.

My a** is stuck in a seat for 8 hours a day. Getting out, moving around, and making the homestead look nice (even though I suck at it) is a nice change of pace.

That is, however, until it interferes with golf.

gringo, you continue to crack me up.

So, are you inferring that those of us who find living under the thumb of some little dicator-like "homeowners association" unappetizing we must, therefore live in white trash trailer park squallor? Really? Because we choose a neighborhood that does not remind us of Edward Scissorhands neighborhood in it's unimaginative sameness?

Seriously?

Very funny stuff, right there. Kinda sad, but funny.

I like inflatable pools...

if Gringo was my neighbor, I'd blow dandelion seeds in his yard!!!!!

I have an HOA. They're terrible at getting barking dogs to STFU.

do what you did to guys on the ship.... stuff something in their mouth

I pee in my yard all the time and I like some inflatable objects.

Andy,

Those dandylion seeds would never survive the chemical blasting. On another note, I swear I saw you on an episode of Operation Repo, you ran outside in a ninja suit and yellow nun-chucks when they came to get your car. Seriously, I don't even know you and I instantly thought of you when I saw that. I was freaking dying and my family just didn't find the ninja thing as funny as me.

Hoyodude,

"Homeowners associations encourage, or rather, demand homogeneity". Now that cracked me up.

I am implying that you are:

1. Either too poor to live in such a neighborhoor, or

2. Like to live in a trashy neighborhood, because it's your RIGHT!!!!

I enjoy overbidding also. I do it to taunt all the poor people on this board. My yard makes superior to you in every way. You could not grow cannibus or shrooms in my neighborhood, because of the mandantory spraying of pesticides. Please post a link to your neighborhood... prove me wrong.

I also took the time to re-read my homeowners assosiation rules to see if the word "homogeneity" or "dictatorship" was used. Didn't really see that there. But you can read it for yourself if you'd like.

http://www.countryway.net/Home.html 

Truthfully, homeowners associations only really "price out" a large percentage of riff-raff. Most of the violations are not enforceable (without costing the association more than the fines/penalties themselves) and not persued. There is one up the road that costs something like $300.00 a month. It is a beautiful community, but you still have houses (only a few) with 5 cars parked in front of them on the street (which is a homeowners violation but not enforcable by city/county parking codes).

Now I am going to go light a cigar with a spare $100.00 bill and thumb my nose to all the peons out there.

Gringo

only hundreds? *scoff*

You use the $100 to light the cedar spill, you tasteless savage.

Andy...is there a goat roped to the tv? May I also suggest chickens..they class up the place AND make you feel like a Gentleman Farmer

^Not to mention their crap will fertilize the grass!!

the last goat andy had has a restraining order on him. now the rest the herd knows.

I have a friend who lives in an association thing.... he had a van parked in his drive way he was trying to sell, didn't drive it much and let the tag expire.... (or didn't put the sticker on the tag, he had purchased it)...... his neighbor called the police reported the van had been abandoned and had a tow truck there and everything..... same neighbor took pics of the kids bicycles laying in the driveway and reported him for something over that.... I'd have a hard time living there myself....

Andy,

I found it.

http://www.break.com/trutv-crazy-stupid-vids/ninja-nobody.html 

Farking awesome!!

Gringo

P.S. Work on that lawn. I see weeds, and pee spots.

gringo,

There ya go again...you are killin' me.

In the first place, I look at it in the opposite way you do -- HOA neighborhoods attract all the boorish, high falutin' snobs who think their poop don't stink.

In the second place I wouldn't show you a picture of my neighborhood on the grounds I'm pretty sure you're unstable and I'm mighty fond of wearing my own skin as a suit, thank you very much.

I'm sure you didn't see the words "dictatorship" or "homogeneity" in the rules because homogenizing dictators are never that direct with their evil plot. They're much sneakier than that.

Also, I actually don't choose to live in a "trashy neighborhood" but it is a working class neighborhood, something you apparently look down your long elitist nose at.

So there! I hope you burn your mutton chops with that freakin' hundred dollar bill as you light your grape flavored White Owl!!