In true Gladys K. fashion, I peek digitally at my neighbors once again surreptitiously, but now from behind my Iron Curtain of Solitude, the Quarantine of the COVID Infected.
Well, I'm a week out from first symptoms so would I still actually need to quarantine? Let me check... CDC says no, but you know what, Imma give it another, er, um, few weeks, just to be sure. No skin off my back.
As we can see above in the live shot taken just now, it's a beautiful day here on ol' Skyview Street at the Lakeview Mobile Village. Shouldn't it be Lakeview Mobile Home Village? I mean, the houses are ostensibly "mobile," not the park itself. And, what's more, it's a mobile home park, not a "village." Well, that's not right either, it's not a "park" in that no one camps here since the community doesn't rent lots to RVs anymore (I heard tell they used to years ago). But, then again, some of these homes are park models and maybe considered even smaller trailer units so they may classify as static RV trailer homes. Shit, even our twelve-foot-wide single wide trailers would be considered by many to be camper-style homes, and, if you factor-in the fact that many are snowbird owned and occupied only seasonally well then... Man, have I got off on a tangent!
Lady May-May's front lawn is being transformed more and more into the Sanford & Sons Junk Yard 2.0 of her dreams with every lawn ornament Lowe's can sell her. And we can see NoFu has either forgotten about or decided to go in another direction this year with his hurricane straps since they've not been reinstalled. Instead, a new project has arisen... the same color and style of pea stone that blankets his front yard is now beginning to spread to hers. Maybe he'll cover it all, right up to my driveway? I really don't know how I feel about that. Would that affect my resale value? More shit to be concerned about with this busybody little fucker and his yard projects on the house next door that isn't even his. He just has a way of convincing her of his hairbrained schemes. Pea stone covered lawns. I mean, we don't live in Arizona. Grass can easily grow nice and green with very little effort as it is in the above photo. Why cover it? Too much to mow? I have fucking Covid and I'll be mowing my shit this week, I'm not that lazy since our lawns are so small! Fucking dipshit. If he does place those stones right up to my drive, some of them'll blow out on it or get moved by those fucking cats or their fucking dogs and I'll have to constantly be plucking out stones from my driveway. Grrrr.
Here's a shot of some of the fireworks over the lake last night. Some of the houses on the lake spend a few bucks each year and put on quite a show, but even beyond this display, a bit out of the range of this camera, I'd be able to see, if I went outside on the street, the city sponsored fireworks show they put on from the Sebring Lake Jackson pier across the lake with much bigger rockets. Notice too, the solar-powered patriotic display of ornaments in May-May's yard. Red, white and blue LEDs, but here looking just violet.
Oh this is my new WYZE reality since I got pissed at their shenanigans and decided to not pay their monthly fee for these cameras, I only get these grainy potato still snapshot event photos, no more 1080p 12 second video captures. Ah well.
Oh another new reality. No, not the rebirth of that big ol' breadfruit-like plant on the side of May-May's screened-in, they replanted that earlier this year and it grew right back as soon as the droughts passed. No, I mean the beaming light from the back. It's the transformer pole. The power company installed a big sodium vapor streetlight up there. And to a couple other transformer poles on the street, so the hood is a little brighter now. It brightens my screened-in as well quite a bit (though not as much as this) which I'm not too thrilled about. At least no more fumbling in pitch dark for my keys when I come home at night or when I'm trying to open my car door in the dark. Knowing this park though, they'll call this a "community amenity" and try to use it to justify a big increase in lot rent this coming January.
I don't think either of them gals are Mary but here's a couple Old Girls o' the Park celebratin' the 4th in their decked out golf cart parked in Mary's drive, maybe making a quick visit? No, our place ain't that together enough to organize shit like up in The Villages, I'm sure they had yesterday, with whole super-festooned multi-cart parades, but you get the one offs like this quite often.
Ah well, enough watching my neighbors enjoying their freedom. I have to stay festered away in my little cocoon of sanitary protection. Or is it my sanitarium of my own creation? Eh, no difference.