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flamingos, gnomes, and bloomer ladies.. lawn art or trash?
Posted by Floormodel • 9/24/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: flamingos, gnomes, santas, wacky wild inflatable armflailing tube men
what say you?
is there beauty in lawn flamingos or is it just too tacky for words?
what's the oddest/weirdest/strangest lawn display you've seen?
for me it's this one yard we pass on the way out to play cards with the notmy-in-laws. This one house has a big tree and around it they have these life sized child dolls and they're sitting on bikes and in tire swings and the lady changes their outfits and tackies them up from time to time. They all had umbrellas the last time we went out that way. In the winter all you can see are their little heads. poor little dolls, she even gives them Buffalo Bills outfits from time to time.
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There is a house that is decorated with hideous plastic flowers, pigeons and gnomes, it looks awful.
I have a love/hate thing for gnomes.
My uncle absolutely hates gnomes, so for the past 5 years I have been hiding gnomes all about his house and garden. Just when he thinks he has found them all, there is always more. Also he feels bad about throwing them away, so has kept them all!
So for that reason I love the ugly things.-
too funny!!!
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I actually need to up the stakes, not gnomed him for ages.
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I had a neighbor that had those hideous flamingos in her yard and did something similar. She had them posing in a wedding scene and then a few weeks later, there were little baby flamingos in her yard.
It was tacky, but kind of cute too. -
I am not ashamed to admit that my oddest lawn display lasted less than eight hours. I made halloween ghosts out of old volleyballs with sticks in them and shorter sticks going crosswise for arms. Then I covered them with sheets and tied strips around their "necks to make ghosts. I used a magic marker to make eyes. I put them, five in all, around a large rock in the yard, attaching their "hands" to form a circle. I was so proud ...until my youngest arrived home from school and asked me why there was a kkk circle in the front yard. I took them down withnin minutes of crossing the street and seeing them from the other side of the road. My sons haven't let me live it down yet.
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Holy moly!
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Haha! That's funny.
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lol ... even scarier than you intended, no?
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I get up set when I see the little black boys statue. My friends mom had one by her pool and it was really black and had glowing white eyes and the person down the road has one that fishes by the pond. I thing that is rude and disrespectful. -
The oddest yard I've ever been in was crawling with garden gnomes -- even the obscene ones. The yard is half-wooded, so the little statues are peeking out from *everywhere*. The garden owner must have at least 200 gnomes. She has even tacked little windows to some of her trees so they look like gnome apartment houses.
I've been in that garden *once* and I left thinking she was certifiable.-
although I bet Agit8r would feel right at home there. I should give him the address.
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I love what writer Jean Shepherd (writer of the film A Christmas Story) says about this sort of lawn ornamentation in his "Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss."
You guys might get a chuckle from this excerpt on Youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQLg3rcV-Is
The character Ralphie's mother is drawn toward a painted yard windmill as the family heads toward their favorite vacation spot...
And, Shepherd says, "No one has as of yet explained the urge that large numbers of people have to dot their lawn with plastic flamingos... or elves..."
He calls it as a collective, "Slob Art." -
one of the newest weird lawn trends around here is bowling balls on sticks. sometimes they spray paint them but usually it's just bowling balls on sticks. not sure why, somethings defy explanation.
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In southern NJ, we used to pass a house on the way to the beach. This house had hundred (maybe thousands) of gallon milk jugs on the front lawn. They were each filled with colored water and made into some decorative pattern. For example, they were arranged like an American Flag one Fourth of July, complete with red white and blue colored jugs appropriately placed.-
I have to applaud that. A bit odd yet creative.
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