Claire, however, seemed to find them irritating.
“They’re too loud,” she told me one afternoon.
I looked up at the chimes. There was barely any wind, and they had hardly made a sound.
I explained that they belonged to my grandmother and that I enjoyed having them on the porch.
Claire didn’t seem interested in my explanation.
After that, she began commenting on almost everything around my property.
She questioned the condition of my hedges, watched me whenever I worked in the yard, and made remarks about how I maintained my front garden.
Eventually, she turned her attention to my fence.
“Don’t you think that fence is too tall?” she asked.
I explained that the fence had already been there when I purchased the house nearly five years earlier. I had never received a complaint about it, and as far as I knew, everything was perfectly legal.Plan Gardens
