Hello Pariemoon2, It was good that a happy solution for all involved was found for the neighbor that was upsetting the neighborhood with his bucket planting. And I believe communities and neighbors are wise to be respectful and supportive of each other as we live our daily and often very different lives, with different goals, different resources and different challenges. I did not come across that story. Thank you for telling me about it. Unfortunately, I am aware of too many stories and situation like the ones I posted that did not have such a happy ending. But I always love hearing about a situation that supports people instead of tearing them down personally, or tearing down their personal resources and work. Too often "labels" are used to manipulate facts and viewpoints. Sometimes people feel the only solution is to stay silent about a situation, and let the bullying deed go unnoticed. Some people do not want to acknowledge or even "know" for whatever personal reason that things like this are actually happening to people. Some people feel better about denying that events like this are happening to some Americans. Sometimes some people try to quiet another's experience by calling another names, minimizing their experience, or labeling them. Some people have a challenging time widening their lens of the world outside of their personal everyday world. Some people, some of the time feel the need to attack those who think and view differently than themselves. It sounds like you are a very compassionate, and considerate neighbor, and a talented gardener for being able to disguise vegetables in the front lawn so well so your neighbor will have a pleasing sight to look at. The fact is not everyone, at every stage of their life are in a position to do that. We all have personal experiences and views on issues. My thought is being aware of various issues that actual people are going through is important in protecting all of us in remaining free to choose the life styles that best match our needs, while using the resources at hand to support our life. Eating and providing food is basic to life itself. Control a person's access to food or water and what is actually being done? Such a shame that some people are bullies, telling other people what they can and cannot do, what they should or should not read. One thing we gardeners understand is diversity of plants are important to garden health. There was a movie, I think it was called: "The Gardener". I saw it many many years ago so I do not remember any details at all. What I do remember about the movie was somehow a gardener got in a position of some power. And when ever anyone asked him what needs to be done about a situation he answered it from a gardening viewpoint. And it was amazing how much wisdom the basic gardening experience had for the world of commerce. Some of us garden to get always from the politics, stress and harshness of everyday life. Some of us garden to express our creativity. Some of us garden out of necessity to feed ourselves with the growing prices at the grocery store and the farmer's market, or because of the uncertainly of what may be in the food that we purchase such as the growing rate of GMO foods being in food that is not even being labeled. As gardeners we all are at different stages in our lives, with different needs and challenges. Isn't it wonderful that we have this forum to make connections to share our experiences, our concerns, our wisdom , our differences, our practical knowledge and how the world looks through our person lens. I wish you all good healthy soil, and clean water to grow your gardens. I understand that not all gardens are made for the cover of Home and Gardens; but all gardens to me are beautiful because some one cared enough to plant one, or was in need of one for psychological pleasure, physical beauty, or practical needs. There are so many reasons to plant a garden, especially in New England, and I always try to lend a helping hand to those who want, for whatever reason to grow a garden o f their own. But that is all just my humble opinion, and values.

My 19 year old DD saw it last night, in her words it was "really good". I always read reviews at Rottentomatoes.com. They have critic reviews as well as consumer ones. "Bride Wars" is getting about 45% positive reviews there from the public. I guess if you want to go see a good movie.. chose "Gran Torino'" with Clint Eastwood. Looks like it is getting the best reviews.. along with "Benjamin Button" (which I saw and loved!). Here is a link that might be useful: Reviews for Bride Wars

Thanks for the input. I couldn't be subjective knowing the circumstances, and I was curious if others thought it sounded as dumb as I did. To make it even worse, the things they complained about were things she couldn't possibly have known. One was a lint build-up in the dryer vent which was attached to a dryer at the time. Another was that they felt the A/C was too slow to cool the house. Once the house is cooled it maintains the temperature fine, but they thought it took too long to get there. When my agent called me last week to tell me about the negative review, she was pretty upset. The particular site only had one positive review of her, and then this negative review came along. She depends on military buyers for a lot of her business, and they would likely use the internet in their search for an agent and see the review. I told her I would write a positive review and suggested that she ask other previous clients to do the same. She asked the site to remove the review because they weren't her clients (it is the site's policy to only allow reviews from clients) and I flagged it as inaccurate and asked that it be removed. I just checked to see if it has been removed, and it's still there, but it's the last review of 19 reviews now. The other 18 are positively glowing and full of facts and anecdotes about how stellar she is. And really, she is probably the hardest-working and most conscientious agent I've ever run across, so I'm glad that it looks like the situation will have a happy ending for her.

My favorites not in order...The color purple, Fried green tomatoes, Ordinary people, Terms of endearment, Chicago , most Jason Statham movies, most Bruce Willis movies. I also really like movies with Kathy Bateman, Tommy Lee Jones, and Melissa McCathy. Love quirky comedies like The invention of lying. There are more but that's off the top of my head. Thought of more. ..When Harry meet Sally, Catty shack, Something about Mary. Oh you have to have A Few Good Men on your list!!! Jack Nicholson is one of the stars. Favorite quote..."You can't Handle the Truth"!