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[wickedflea]

It occurs to me that I have not seen any houses in Connecticut with painted tires decorating the yard. Ya'll ever seen that? At some homes in the south, people have painted tires standing upright and buried about halfway to line the yard. That's class. I don't know why people up here don't do that. It's senseless.

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[skid-rose.livejournal.com]

Yup, I'm familiar with that style of landscaping.

Perhaps rubber is more expensive in CT and they just can't afford to waste it like that.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

That would make sense, considering EVERYTHING is more expensive here. Just another case of The Man trying to keep us down.

[skid-rose.livejournal.com]

I can see this being a key point in the next Presidential election: "I promise affordable rubber, so we can have more painted tires in yards!"

*cheers*

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Heck yeah! With such a ploy, Kerry could have gotten a good number of "common guy" types and swayed the election. *sigh*

[wretchmuffin.livejournal.com]

Trashy-ass Connecticutters, anyway. Tire planters rule.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Right on! And their mamas don't wear no drawers.

[lastcallforcorn.livejournal.com]

i prefer raised beds made from tractor tires.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Those are excellent, too! That's great design--aesthetically pleasing AND functional.

[lulu-girl.livejournal.com]

Why do people plant tires? I grew up around that nonsense...but until you mentioned, it never struck me as odd.

I must have some redneck in me.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Hehe, I dunno! It's very strange. Just think--someone had to have the idea and then actually go through with painting the tires, digging the holes, etc.--and then OTHER people had to say, "Goddamn, that looks GOOD! Hey Thelma, let's do that at OUR place too!"

[lulu-girl.livejournal.com]

I used to think they were weird forms of stools.
I used to sit on people's planted tires.

and now I'm wondering if I didn't horrify these people by sitting on their object d'art! hahahahha!

planted tires. fucking hilarious. i so want to plant one now.

[lemmons.livejournal.com]

That must be a dying trend, cuz I haven't seen anything like that in a looong time. My Nana used to plant flowers in old tires and I remember my Poppa painting them red white and blue for the fourth of July.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was thinking about that--when I thought about it, I realized that I don't see it much when I go back home. I'm gonna be specifically looking for them on my next trip. =)

[lemmons.livejournal.com]

This is kind of funny now, because I was looking through old pictures today and found one of me when I was about two or three and behind me and the other kids is a huge tractor tire that was being used as either a planter or a sand box. I should scan it and post it.

[carocrow.livejournal.com]

I like the ones that are cut and turned inside out so they look like a big flower, painted white and used as a planter in the yard.

Hey, you gotta do something with all those old tires. Dang Yankees.

I saw a program the other day that will be the end of it; they are putting in a recycling plant in AL that will take all carbon based forms of waste (which is practically anything) and apply heat and pressure to make coal and gas. It's like taking a shortcut past all the millenea it took to make the original petroleum products.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Howdy, scranger. =)

[carocrow.livejournal.com]

You're the first person to notice I haven't been posting.

they been tainted by the white devil

[bellastrega.livejournal.com]

they ain't down with Kongo here. Everything is a wheel. just ask Robert Ferris Thompson

[hauntedskipper.livejournal.com]

Now that you mention it, our area is pretty much free of any yard ornaments, as far as I've seen.
No Yard Butts.
No Peein' Yard Yunguns.
No pieces of plywood painted and cut into the shapes of cows.
No 4X4 planks covered in white whool to look like sheep.
I haven't even seen any gnomes up here, now that I think of it.

Lakeland, my hometown in FL, was rampant with yard ornaments.
It pissed off my friends so much, when we were kids, that they started a gang that's sole purpose was to rid the world of Yard Butts and they're kind.
They named themselves CASYO.
Which stood for: Coalition Against Stupid Yard Ornaments.

One summer they collected over 300 yard butts (and even more of the less offensive stuff) in the Polk / Hillsboro County areas.
We had a bonfire the weekend of the first cold snap that fall and the butts burned for hours and hours.
Good times.