The Neighborhood Is Coming Around

It was dark when I got in last night from Charlotte NC . An absolutely brutal 4 1/2 hour drive home, rain for 10 miles, dry for 10 miles, rain for 10 mile, repeat, repeat........... When I bounded out of bed this morning (a gross exaggeration) I noticed the house next store had gone through a complete landscaping make over. Now this is the house that had recently changed ownership and was being remodeled. They completely removed all of the scrub growth in the front yard and created an island that takes up 3/4 of the front yard. These people are smart, less grass to cut and it really looks nice.
On a side note. Our subdivision has been built out for the last few years, there are of course those few vacant undesirable lots left, you know, those lots where you secretly wish you were a billy goat as you walk across the backyard. A local builder constructed a "spec" house on one of these lots. A "spec" house that is a good 1000 sq. feet bigger than anything else in the neighborhood, a "spec" house with an asking price double of anything that has ever been sold in the neighborhood. Well someone has bought it, I can hardly wait to meet the genius that purchased this jewel. While he's thinking that he's the "Richie Rich" of the neighborhood that rest of us will be thinking he's the "Dumbass" of the neighborhood.