Daily Check-in

[starwatcher]

 
This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Wednesday, August 27, to midnight on Thursday, August 28. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #33542 Daily Check-in

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 32

How are you doing?

I am OK.
19 (59.4%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
12 (37.5%)

I could use some help.
1 (3.1%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
13 (40.6%)

One other person.
13 (40.6%)

More than one other person.
6 (18.8%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
 

Comments

[hitokage]

I am absolutely livid

I've been struggling with my vegetable garden all summer, but I finally had fruit on my cucumbers-actually-they're-cantaloups and finally had some zucchini flowering and the (heirloom!) tomato was giving flowering another shot after all the rains and SOME FUCKER MOWED EVERYTHING DOWN TODAY. INCLUDING MULTIPLE GARDENING STAKES and STACKED QUARTZ CHUNKS. Also all my very vibrant, very thriving, very much needed for my religious practice marigolds and the shallow dish of water I kept for the bees.

Oh, but they moved aside the garbage bins. And the hand tiller that was sitting IN THE MIDDLE of my garden. And did NOT do anything about the huge branch that came off the tree that no one wants to take responsibility for.

I'm feeling extra enraged because this was someone sent by a local church group who were helping out of a sense of Christian neighborliness and I don't know if it was a different crew or what, cuz up to now they had been respecting my garden rather well. I don't know WTF they were thinking, but now there are sad chunks of green melon strewn across my lawn and marigold seeds everywhere and I'm not impressed.

[starwatcher]

How infuriating!!! I don't know how anyone could mistake a garden for "something that needs to be mowed." (The stakes weren't a clue? Ridiculous!!) I'd call up that church, tell them exactly what their "helpful" folks did, and demand that they teach ALL crews the difference between grass and weeds to be mowed, and vegetation -- flowers, food plants -- that should be left alone.

I'd also submit a bill for the cost of seed, fertilizer, plant food, and the time you put in. Not that I think they'll pay it -- but it might make them realize that "helpfulness" is not an excuse to ride roughshod over other people's lives.

I'm so sorry you have to live with the actions of thoughtless idiots.

[hitokage]

It's extra frustrating because we live in a poor rural community, so they really OUGHT to know better than to be messing with a vegetable garden. Especially when the grass wasn't even that tall in the yard yet, so I really wasn't expecting them until maybe next week. I'm not Karen enough to send them a bill, tempting as that is, but I'm sure petty enough to hope they fucked up their equipment at least a little bit running it over rock piles like they did.

[starwatcher]

Yeah, it's easy enough for me to say 'send a bill' from my couch in New Mexico -- but the utter incompetence is mind-boggling. If not a bill, I'd definitely file an official complaint. If nothing else, present it to the bosses as a request for idiots to learn what they're supposed to do.