Too much grass

When the land lords returned from their holidays, they complained about the long grass, and gave us 5 days to clean it up or they were kicking us out. For some unknown reason he called late at night and angry, both no nos for a landlord...

They didn't want to listen to anything about the mower not working even though we had been in contact with them about the problems we were having... They insisted that people were calling them all the time and complaining about it (including our neighbours)... On top of all that he said we couldn't start the mower for 2 or 3 days coz the grass was too wet to mow. HUH??

I was so stressed that he was using this as an excuse to get us out for some reason and that we wouldn't be able to get it done that I had a migraine headache for 3 days anyway.

He had called Friday night, we didn't go to church so we had more time to get things done, and I forgot to let anyone know. Dad called to see what was wrong, so I told him. He got my brother to come out and help. He didn't have any problems with using the mower in that forbidden time. He came out 3 days in a row and mowed everything for us. He got the little mower going and Jamie and Ashlea mowed with that in the smaller gaps that the ride-on mower wouldn't fit in. And I watched the kids and cleaned house and visited with my sister-in-law.

When Monday morning came I called the advice line for tenants and landlords and got some advice, which led to a phone call back to the landlord (not my thing, I hate confrontation). All I wanted to tell him was that he couldn't call late, or angry and he couldn't evict us over the phone. This tuned out to be about an hour long phone call in which he basically called me an idiot and a liar several times, including telling me how to reduce my power bill. I put a stop to that line of convo, and reminded him why I had called.

Let me just say that I did realise the grass had to be done, I was just trying to stress to him that there was a proper way to go about it.

He said they would be out to check the grass in a week instead of a couple of days. that was ok since it was all done besides the edges anyway. I bought a whipper snipper (edger thingy) and spent the next 2 days doing the edges (there is a huge area we had to keep done). Then they didn't show up for another 2 weeks anyway. And all was up to scratch, and we are still here.