Ok, here is the story that got deleted the other day, I now have the time to do it over.

 The Evil Neighbor Lady

Que the organ!

Ok, our neighbor (we will call her "Miss Matie") Has lived in her house for about twenty years, and she has somewhat of a "owns it all" mentality.     Her house is back-to-back with our house, our fence against her yard.    Our house is hemmed in on two sides by houses (her's included), on another by a small front yard and the road, and on the third is our fence and about a six foot wide strip of land before you get to the road.     She believes the "strip", as we will now call it, is city property (if it is than her flower-bed and mail-box are city property too).     Well since it is "city property",as she says, she believes she can dump her junk over there, right along the side of our land.    We have already had a confrontation with her over that.

Now, getting down to the reason for this story.     Mom ordered some day-lily bulbes from Gurney's seed catalog,we planted most of them along the "strip",and a few in a little flower bed out front.      They grew good and some of them had just bloomed, while some others were about to.   They were beautiful, some were a nice crimson color, others were white.   Well one day I hear all the dogs barking, so I go out on the back porch to see what all of the noise is about, and guess what I see?   Over on the other side of the fence somone is leaning over Mom's flowers, I couldn't see who it is, and I thought it was probably just somone smelling the flowers or somthing.    But I go back in and tell Mom about it, and of course she goes to check it out.     It was none other than Miss Matie, and she was digging up Mom's flowers!    Mom asked her what she thought she was doing, and she said that she thought that somone had just left them there (yeah right, in a perfect row.); and when Mom explaind that no, she had bought and paid for them, and planted them herself, Miss Matie fell back on her "Oh but it is city property" theme.    She finely just told Mom that she would re-plant them, and she did....somewhat.     All she really did was stick them far enough in the ground so that they would stand up.     But after she left,me and Mom went out, and while I re-planted the flowers correctly, Mom put up a no-trespassing sign.   I think most of the flowers will make out ok, at least I hope so.    Although I get the feeling she might be out there throwing chicken bones over the fence for our dogs.     

Anyways, that is the story I wrote (with a few gramatical changes) that got deleted the other day.   Bah,it was long.   Hope y'all enjoy reading my rantings.  Heh.

Kestrel