Long Grass

 

As a person who once lived in a house with a garden, I always struggled with keeping the garden tidy. Even after every three of four months of getting a gardener to put the garden back in shape. After two weeks the garden would have lost its shape and sometimes overgrown with weeds. I soon realized maintaining a proper garden was almost a full time job...My old now dead neighbor, literally slept in her garden. And boy it was worth the effort she use to put into it. I once dreamt I slept in it.

I wanted my garden to be like hers back then.

The problem was that I could not to get a gardener in every two weeks. And try as I might I failed at maintaining it myself.

So I devised an idea based on a joke...

The joke goes like this

One afternoon a wealthy lawyer was sitting in the back of his ,
limousine being driven to work, when he saw two men eating grass
by the side of the road. 

He ordered his driver to stop, and then he got out to investigate. 

"Why are you eating grass?" he asked the men. 

"Sir, we don't have any money for food," one of the men replied. 

"Come along with me," instructed the lawyer. 

The first man said, "But sir, I have a wife and two children. They
are also hungry." 

"Bring them along too," replied the lawyer. 

The second man said, "Sir, I have a wife and six children. Can they
come as well, please?" 

"No problem, bring them as well," answered the lawyer as he climbed
back into his limo. 

Finally, they were all in the limo - the lawyer, the two men, their
two wives and eight children. 

One of the men said, "Sir, you are too kind. Thank you for taking all
of us with you." 

The lawyer replied, "No problem, there will be plenty to eat at my home.
The grass is almost half a metre tall."