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When water is plentiful and their lawn is an oasis of brown in a sea of green, then they can complain.  And when they drop their &#8220;you must have X% of your yard as lawn, and no buffalo grass allowed,&#8221; then they can have the moral justification to suggest xeriscaping for any imagined slights on the local property values.<\/p>\n<p>Until then, they can stifle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doyce gets The Dreaded Knock On the Door in the Middle of the Night &#8212; or, more properly, The Dreaded Letter from the Homeowner&#8217;s Association in the Middle of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-improvement"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132469,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/30\/snow-white-a-tale-of-the-fourth-age.html","url_meta":{"origin":4588,"position":0},"title":"Snow White: A Tale of the Fourth Age","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 30-Dec-16 4:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"There are a few patches and seams in this theory that \"Snow White\" takes place in Middle-Earth, well into the Age of Humans -- but, to be honest, no more than in Tolkien's own oft-revised histories. 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