A Grave Mistake...

In about two weeks, I will be hauled kicking and screaming out of my home and moved exactly one mile up the street to a new home. When the military says "move", you move.

I went to check up on the condition of my soon-to-be new home, and noticed a strange sight in the front yard... A GIANT GRAVE!

At least it looked like a grave.

The previous tenant was a gardener and had a huge planter box in the middle of the front yard. About ten feet wide and 6 feet deep. Multi-tiered and filled with lovely plants. When she moved, she took the damn thing with her but instead of leveling the excess dirt underneath and putting down grass seed or sod, she did a shitty thing to us...

She dumped a few buckets of dirt on the bare spot and put a dead flower in the middle. The attempt: make it look like a flowerbed so she wouldn't have to clean it up. The result: GRAVE.

I was ticked! Had this been around Halloween, I might have let it go and fixed it later, but damnation! It's 110 degrees here, 100% humidity and I am NOT going to spend hours hauling out bad dirt, dead plants, and cutting/laying new sod.

You should all be proud of me, I went to the housing office and politely showed them these pictures and just as politely (and firmly) requested that they fix the GRAVE before our family moves in. They seem to be on track to fix it up, so we'll keep our fingers crossed.

If it doesn't get fixed, I'm going to put SOMEBODY into that grave to make it worth my while!