Nativity Disaster

Christmas is over.  The decor should be too.  First off, we have the strangest neighbors ever.  I have heard they are hoarders.  They are just bizarre people no matter which way you look at it.  They have two teenagers who never smile or act like they even might have a bit of personality.  It's because they have the weirdest parents in San Marcos.  They also have one of those little poodles from hell.  His name is Cowboy.  And he is a mean little dickens.  He and Rox got into a fight one day and let me tell you who won that one...yep, my girl!  Speaking of - I post a lot of pics of Zoe lately but none of my favorite girl dog.  Here she is on Christmas Day...

That stuffed orange and yellow toy in front of her was her favorite present of the day.  It's a lion's head.  It squeaks and it's "d bomb" or so I'm told.  She got so much stuff.  There is a box of cookies right there.  Of course, she was offended because they were Nutro Lite (Diet) cookies.  I told her it's true.  We both need to trim down a bit.  She also got another toy and a brand new pink harness.  She had a wonderful Christmas.

Back to the neighbors...they went all out with the Christmas decorating this year.  Nothing attractive of course but decor nonetheless.   They even strung lights on all of our lovely wrought iron.  They hung lights on their upstairs balcony and also hung a star.  They hung a wreath in our courtyard.  And the most special thing of all...they put up a lovely nativity scene in our shared front grass area.  I think it's made out of that hologram plastic stuff.  It's the most awful looking thing ever.  I think the purpose was to light it up so that we could see Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus every night during the holiday season.  ONE night it was half lit.  We could see Joseph and some other thing but that was it.  The rest of it...nothing.  The other lights?  Nothing.  And it was like this the whole season.  Why in the heck do people go to this trouble to purchase this stuff at a garage sale and then not light it up?  They certainly didn't buy it at a store so it had to come from someone's 1970's collection.  And guess what?  Yep, it's STILL up - unlit of course.  Here's what it looks like during the day...

Actually as of today it looks worse than this because poor baby Jesus has fallen over into the dirt and one of the 3 Kings took a really bad spill too.  Please notice the pretty disco like material.  Please don't come over to visit until I say it's ok.  I'm much too embarassed!  But if you do come, they have a lovely lazy boy chair in a blue felt sitting on their front porch in case you want to stay a while... I know, I can always call the homeowner's association.  No wait!  They are on the association. Of course they are. 

Signing off...♥