The other day while I was upstairs, Bella started barking downstairs. She has taken to barking when she sees people walking through our yard or even out front through a window. Of course the second you let her near the people, she wants to play and lick them, but she sure sounds intimidating. :-)
Anyway, Bella was barking, and I just assumed someone was walking by the water or using our backyard as a walk-through, the usual. However, when I went downstairs to look, it was two guys from the lawn crew that keep the little patch of land along the water looking nice. They had taken a weed whackers and hacked down the bush that sat along our property line. At first I was a bit confused--why were they there? How would this look? Shawn and I had talked about hiring someone to remove it awhile ago. Apparently there had been brush like that all along the property lines but some residents had previously gotten together and paid to have most of it removed. Only the portion by our house had remained.
I had to head out to a dentist appointment, so I didn't have time to wait and see the finished result, but here it is:
At first I was a bit upset, feeling that it now just looked like we had a big hole in the back yard. But as Shawn pointed out, once it starts to green over, it will look like the rest of the area by the water. And we now have a water view from the kitchen sink and a few places we previously couldn't see the water from!
I don't know why the homeowners association decided to remove it, but I am sure glad we didn't have to make the decision, and even more glad we didn't have to hire and pay someone to remove it.
