Shake Down

The weather is beautiful today. I sat on the porch for a while listening to music and drinking protein. There’s a man in the neighborhood with a riding lawnmower. He drove it from the block on the opposite corner of the streets and onto my neighbor’s lot. He proceeded to mow about half of the grassy area between the two houses and then stop. He walked to the door and collected a fee for the mowing and then finished. It almost seemed like he did it without asking and made my neighbor pay to clean up the uneven lawn. So a Shake Down! I mean it probably wasn’t but it sort of looked that way.

After he was done I cleaned the garden, hedges, and my side of the lot by hand. I certainly don’t want someone knocking on my door demanding money for yardwork and certainly not yardwork they started but will only finish for a fee. I love this neighborhood. It’s got character. Or maybe I should say it’s got characters. And like I said the weather is beautiful today.