[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] uh-huh I have a home not really we have a a small back yard and small front yard but um
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] oh okay
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] uh-huh um-hum
[speaker002:] that kind of stuff the seasonal things
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah uh-huh
[speaker002:] but um and well I think we have one of the nicest yards in the in the neighborhood
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] yeah yeah oh yeah
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] that's true
[speaker001:] uh hum what else I get to put out all the Christmas lights out there and all that sort of thing
[speaker002:] I don't no he does that
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] uh-huh yes oh oh God
[speaker001:] I decided I was afraid
[speaker002:] yeah I don't blame
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] yeah huh
[speaker001:] but
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] oh wow oh no uh-huh
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] yeah oh
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] so 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
[speaker001:] hum oh but you still have to pay for it though even though they're not gonna do it
[speaker002:] yeah because it's an association fee
[speaker001:] oh is it real expensive
[speaker002:] yes it's like seventy a month
[speaker001:] oh okay oh my goodness
[speaker002:] yeah and it I don't like I I just get really upset every time I make that check out but um
[speaker001:] yeah well do do they do other things for y'all
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] uh-huh um-hum
[speaker002:] and so that way if someone moves out the entire neighborhood is mowed and watered and that kind of thing you know so
[speaker001:] hm but you knew when you moved in you'd have to pay that didn't you
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] oh yeah I don't know either that's interesting
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] um-hum now do they do things like plant bushes and trees
[speaker002:] they only only in like in the common areas and then the island but they don't do it in your yard
[speaker001:] oh okay so there's like no restriction on what types of bushes you can have or anything like that
[speaker002:] right uh-huh yeah so we've added bushes and and shrubbery too
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] I know yeah yeah that's what we did when we first moved in too just rearranged some things
[speaker001:] um-hum 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
[speaker002:] oh oh really oh
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] oh yeah
[speaker001:] and I guess that costs you an absolute fortune
[speaker002:] oh that's true so gosh you did it manually huh oh yeah oh God
[speaker001:] by hand yeah yeah but it works great now that we've got it yeah it's nice
[speaker002:] I bet yeah that's a good investment there
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] oh oh
[speaker001:] to do that