okay do you do you have a home or are you in apartment okay so do you have to do a lot of garden work
uh-huh i have a home
not really we have a a small back yard and small front yard but um
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um i do basically like the shrubbery and the planting and the weeding and he mows the lawn because the lawn mower's too heavy
oh okay
that's another story and um
and uh i do the edging and stuff like that but um it doesn't take us that long because our our yard's so small but um i try and do as much you know flowering as i can and
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that kind of stuff the seasonal things
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yeah uh-huh
but um
and well i think we have one of the nicest yards in the in the neighborhood
well that's nice i wish i could say that
ours is pretty small too but it it takes about an hour with the two of us working to you know do the bushes and and all of that sort of thing um the worst part is controlling the weeds
yeah
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oh yeah
which i hate because we don't like to use a lot of the chemicals and because like we have a dog and and you know he's gonna be out in the yard and who knows what he eats out there but we try not to use them but we end up using some anyway
that's true
uh hum what else
i get to put out all the Christmas lights out there and all that sort of thing
i don't no he does that
no
oh okay well if if they go up like one year we did the edge of the house all the way up on the roof and i i went up on the roof once and i'll never do it again
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yes
oh
oh God
i decided i was afraid
yeah i don't blame
so this year he got lazy so i said fine i'll put some on the bushes and that's about it that's all it it gets
yeah huh
but
okay we don't have that many bushes to put them on um our our yards are very uh narrow and so we have some bushes but we don't have too many but we have a nice tree in the front and
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uh we have people that an association that comes and mows everybody's front yard and um they keep hitting hitting it the tree with the lawn mower you know every time you do that you
oh wow
oh no
uh-huh
it it um kind of
kills the tree for a while and so that's kind of stunt its growth for just a while until we get it back going again
yeah
oh
and we started mowing our own lawn because they were doing that and so anyways we have a nice full tree now and and we put our we usually fill it with lights and that kind of thing
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and they would um they also edged and they would edge into into the shrubbery and oh gosh it was getting really bad so we
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but you still have to pay for it though even though they're not gonna do it
yeah because it's an association fee
oh is it real expensive
yes it's like seventy a month
oh okay
oh my goodness
yeah and it i don't like i i just get really upset every time i make that check out but um
yeah well do do they do other things for y'all
they take care of the um landscape because we live in a cul-de-sac and there's a island in the middle and so they care of that and there's a pool and they take care of the pool and and there's a pond they take care of the pond and the park area and that kind of thing and so you're
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basically paying oh and the sprinkler system that that our yard doesn't have a sprinkler system but the island does and um certain sharing areas have sprinkler systems and
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and so that way if someone moves out the entire neighborhood is mowed and watered and that kind of thing you know so
hm but you knew when you moved in you'd have to pay that didn't you
well it it it went up since we pay and that's the bad thing i just hope it doesn't go up any more because we just can't afford it anymore i don't know what to do if you can't afford it
oh
yeah
i don't know either that's interesting
so um but they're that's what they do they take care of basically the front yards and unless you don't want them to do it and
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now do they do things like plant bushes and trees
they only only in like in the common areas and then the island but they don't do it in your yard
oh okay so there's like no restriction on what types of bushes you can have or anything like that
right uh-huh yeah so we've added bushes and and shrubbery too
um-hum yeah when we moved into our house i just hated the bushes they had and i i ripped most of them out and put them somewhere in the back and put new ones out front but that was a lot of work took me a long time
i know
yeah
yeah that's what we did when we first moved in too just rearranged some things
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yeah and then then we put in a sprinkler system and we won't go through that again i will pay someone to do it oh it took so long
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oh really
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because my husband was you know digging the trenches because he didn't want to get a trencher you know there the machine that'll do it because he knew so many people that broke it through their water main or their gas main doing it
oh yeah
and i guess that costs you an absolute fortune
oh
that's true so gosh you did it manually huh oh yeah oh God
by hand yeah yeah
but it works great now that we've got it yeah it's nice
i bet yeah that's a good investment there
yeah well we needed to because we're having some foundation trouble and you know you have to keep the the area moist around the house or it makes it worse so we had an incentive there
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