John-the neighbor
It's so funny because the people that Wes hangs with or talks to outside of work are all named "John".
Our neighbor John is just a hoot. He and Annie found their house next door on the internet. It was built by the same guy who built our place. We had almost no problems with getting this place built. John has a lot of issues with the builder and we can't talk about that with him. They moved in about a year ago and he's still been working on the movie lots in Hollywood. He tells many stories about different celebrities that would curl your hair! So every few weeks he'd come here on the weekends until his retirement a few weeks ago. Sometime next year he will need to work for 6 more weeks down there.
John is a workaholic and he's outside from sun up to sun down working around their place. They have a dog named Lola, sometimes called Lole or Lola-Manola. She is cute. John talks and argues with her like she is their teenaged child. Before John came hom I'd take Lola for walks to give Annie a small break. They have 2 large tropical birds. One of them talks and she calls, "Alo--ha!" when you walk in the house. John talks and argues with the birds too! Our neibor Joyce has a pool. When the frogs started making noise John went over and explained how tropical birds can die from disease born by frogs. That weekend Joyce's sons pumped out the pool.
They have spent many years vacationing in Hawai'i--when Annie was a child her family would spend summers in Hawai'i--Poipu to be exact. So, there house is filled and decorated with Hawaiian artwork that is to die for. I knew we would be okay as neighbors because the day the movers came John was blasting an IZ cd! When Annie decorates she gets rid of stuff she doesn't like. So, Kanoe has a couch from them, I have a small leather barrel chair that swivels, with a footstool/hassock and some bathroom rugs.
The thing about John the neighbor, he's been in most of our homes. He has a booming voice that is heard down the street and I've heard him criticize the way I do my yard. Easy for him, he has a sprinkler system and "the Mexicans" as he puts it, come and do his yard. Just this morning I heard him say to Lola, "look, she's watering the road. Why is she watering the road?" They have offered to pay for us to build an enclosure for our garbage cans and propane tanks because they don't like looking at them from the upstairs windows.
Bruce, the neighbor across the street has a huge motorhome. He doesn't like Bruce's wood fence, but John's fence is black chainlink. John doesn't like looking at the fence, or the motorhome and would like to have it parked in John's yard so John's view would be unobstructed. Well, John had us change our property line--an advantage for us because we gain space to build a workshop, advantage for him so he can SEE what the line is. Our problem now is that MY large landscape boulders are on John's side. He wants to build a road to get to the side of his property. In order to do that he will need to move MY rocks to where I want them.
Well, enough about John, tomorrow you can meet the master gardener neighbors.
Our neighbor John is just a hoot. He and Annie found their house next door on the internet. It was built by the same guy who built our place. We had almost no problems with getting this place built. John has a lot of issues with the builder and we can't talk about that with him. They moved in about a year ago and he's still been working on the movie lots in Hollywood. He tells many stories about different celebrities that would curl your hair! So every few weeks he'd come here on the weekends until his retirement a few weeks ago. Sometime next year he will need to work for 6 more weeks down there.
John is a workaholic and he's outside from sun up to sun down working around their place. They have a dog named Lola, sometimes called Lole or Lola-Manola. She is cute. John talks and argues with her like she is their teenaged child. Before John came hom I'd take Lola for walks to give Annie a small break. They have 2 large tropical birds. One of them talks and she calls, "Alo--ha!" when you walk in the house. John talks and argues with the birds too! Our neibor Joyce has a pool. When the frogs started making noise John went over and explained how tropical birds can die from disease born by frogs. That weekend Joyce's sons pumped out the pool.
They have spent many years vacationing in Hawai'i--when Annie was a child her family would spend summers in Hawai'i--Poipu to be exact. So, there house is filled and decorated with Hawaiian artwork that is to die for. I knew we would be okay as neighbors because the day the movers came John was blasting an IZ cd! When Annie decorates she gets rid of stuff she doesn't like. So, Kanoe has a couch from them, I have a small leather barrel chair that swivels, with a footstool/hassock and some bathroom rugs.
The thing about John the neighbor, he's been in most of our homes. He has a booming voice that is heard down the street and I've heard him criticize the way I do my yard. Easy for him, he has a sprinkler system and "the Mexicans" as he puts it, come and do his yard. Just this morning I heard him say to Lola, "look, she's watering the road. Why is she watering the road?" They have offered to pay for us to build an enclosure for our garbage cans and propane tanks because they don't like looking at them from the upstairs windows.
Bruce, the neighbor across the street has a huge motorhome. He doesn't like Bruce's wood fence, but John's fence is black chainlink. John doesn't like looking at the fence, or the motorhome and would like to have it parked in John's yard so John's view would be unobstructed. Well, John had us change our property line--an advantage for us because we gain space to build a workshop, advantage for him so he can SEE what the line is. Our problem now is that MY large landscape boulders are on John's side. He wants to build a road to get to the side of his property. In order to do that he will need to move MY rocks to where I want them.
Well, enough about John, tomorrow you can meet the master gardener neighbors.
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