There's this open house up the hill from where I live. Its chimney is right in front of the house and there's no front yard, so it looks as if the house is staring down the hill at us.. it's not very spectacular but it stands out from all the rest because of that.

No one wants to buy the house, not because of it's chimney or the lack of a front yard--most people can live with those--but because of its backyard. There's just this huge stack of vines in the backyard(you'll notice I have no idea how to describe this.) It covers up the whole yard, and stretches even outside of its fence, slowly it even crossed to other neighbour's yards, which is like, 5 feet from the end of the fence. Luckily, I don't live in one of those houses, because the owners there have to constantly cut the vines themselves, and because no one owns the junkyard--a name that came to our minds naturally whenever we passed--they cannot blame anyone.

But now that's changed. A family came to that tiny neighbourhood. Whenever I greet them, they show me a smile and greet back, but I can easily imagine them scratching their soon-to-be-bald heads deciding what to do with their obviously-out-of-control backyard whenever I turn my head. To their dismay, there are also tiny bumps on the ground that gets filled with water whenever it rains, and do believe me when I say Vancouver has a lot of rain. So there are puddles of water everywhere, and what's worse is that mosquitos grow and inhibit those small ponds. Over time, those mosquitos will bunch up and invade the house.

The family has yet to do anything about their yard, but I have a tingling feeling that that tiny neighbourhood up the hill will become quite noisy over the next week.

There are so much more I can talk about that backyard, but I don't think anyone'll want to read a long blog like this...

wow... troublesome vineyards. pain in the neck to do something with the vines. i prefer to live in an apartment. >.<
» renaye on 2007-11-26 10:58:54

I wish them luck with the backyard for it sounds really bad.
» Nuttz on 2007-11-26 11:11:24

They might end up just redoing the whole backyard. My dad did that with ours... I think. We had like, a pile of dirt or something on one side of the yard and he moved it to the other side with a little bulldozer he rented. :P Or they might just pave it.
» randomjunk on 2007-11-26 11:31:42

now that the house is no longer vacant, maybe they will take care of their yard so they don't have all those nasty problems.

if not, the surrounding neighbors will probably bother them about it until they do. lol
» iTest on 2007-11-27 09:20:03

Hey bullet!
Whats going on? I like your little anime page. A little disturbing but nice nonetheless. Thanks for missing me. :)

So basically, the backyard is a crapyard. lol! Why dont they just hire some people to clean it up so that they can sell it? That makes sense to me.
» KKama67 on 2007-11-28 03:45:12

that sounds like a scary house >.<
» crz4manga on 2008-01-08 09:17:45

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