Today, as we pulled out of the driveway to head to the library, the girls commented on our neighbor's immaculate lawn grooming habits."Look, Mr. Neighbor is mowing his lawn again, and it was already shorter than ours!"
"Yes," I sighed, "he likes to keep his lawn short and tidy."
"And it's always so green," said Sleeping Beauty.
"That's because he gets it painted green sometimes, every week or something," Snow White tried to explain.
"What? No, he doesn't paint his lawn!" He is immaculate, but he's not crazy.
"Yes he does, Mom. Haven't you ever seen that white truck with "GreenLawn" or something on the side that has a long hose with it. The guy uses it to paint the lawn where there's yellow parts like all over our our lawn."
"Oh," I said, understanding dawning, "that is the company he pays to spray fertilizer and bug killer and things on his lawn. It keeps his lawn healthy so then it gets greener. It's not green paint."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes. I'm sure."
Come to think of it, though, I'm not really sure. His lawn is awfully nice and green. Next time they come spray his lawn, I am totally checking to see if the fertilizer is tinted with green paint. I bet it is.
So funny!
ReplyDeleteGrandpa says that golf courses DO have green tint put in with their fertilizer. How many cans of spray paint will it take for your big lawn? ;)
ReplyDeletelol. i wonder if that's the secret to our green lawn? i know the bug killer people spray our lawn every month. hmmmm. i never thought of that.
ReplyDeleteOmigosh that is hilarious! And I love your royal decree. :)
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