Sights in the Ghetto

Grant and I have always known we weren't living in the "best" neighborhood. The last month has really produced some great photo ops that we just couldn't resist. I was worried about doing this post because I thought we might offend our neighbors, but we have realized that it is no surprise to anyone that we are residents of Provo's ghetto. I am grateful for the place we live. It will always provide a good laugh in years to come, and in the mean time we have been blessed with awesome neighbors. BUT, just in case you too could use a good laugh, enjoy the sights of our ghetto-

(note: all of these pictures are at our 4-plex, imagine the pictures we could have gotten if we had ventured out a few bocks!)

I think this truck has not moved in 6 months.

One of the apartments flooded and they ended up redoing the kitchen, but they never got around to tossing the old cabinets out. They have sat on our lawn for the last 2 months, and then our neighbors got a new washer a dryer, so of course the old ones had to come outside to make room for the new ones.

Our beautiful barbecue, AKA the rust bucket. The rust bucket will not be making the move to Ohio with us. I do think it makes a great first impression for anyone who come to visit us.

Our neighbors front porch. When your apartment is too small just start moving things outside. It had a couch on it when we moved in, then a bed frame, and currently the chair- coffee table- cinder block combo.

And finally the leaf piles. Our land lord raised our rent this year and then said that there was no longer enough money to pay the lawn maintenance guy. So we still have giant piles of leafs in the middle of January, and when ever the wind blows they end up in our stair well :(

On a more positive note, our rampant stray cat population is going down. One of the neighbors got so tired of the cats thinking their stairwell was a bathroom that they called animal control. Animal control was more than happy to bring some traps over, and currently 3 have been caught. Only 20 more to go!