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Looks kinda creepy, are you sure it's not a camera? :)
Gazing balls and orbs haven't been "in style" since before I was born.
"Your opinions are sought."
Well, since you asked, 2 things:
1) Your neighbors are crazy. Not that there's anything wrong with that; in fact they may well be quite nice. But they are crazy, and you should keep that in the back of your mind over the years ahead...
2) Something like that in the front yard is a cry for affirmation: they want you to mention it. You have 2 choices. If you don't mention/affirm/compliment it, they'll be very mildly slighted, which could come back to bite you years from now when you need their support/ approval on some neighborhood issue and they react with long-simmering passive-aggression. On the plus side, you don't have to listen to some long-winded mumbo-jumbo about it's significance/meaning/etc.
If, on the other hand, you acknowledge/compliment it, while you may be subject to a painful hour or so of self-congratulatory mumbo-jumbo, you'll leave with a small credit of long-to-be- remembered good will, which may some day pay you back in spades.
OK, Watcher, now you are scaring the Phactor.
It could indeed be much worse.
Seen up the street: brightly colored TOILET (painted yellow and purple, with pink flowers). Paired with sign: "FLUSH OUT HUNGER". I can only assume this is for a charity, similar to the folks who stick pink flamingos in your yard while you aren't looking, and you "pay" to have them removed... :P
.............and who says you can't have a gazing ball in your front yard? So they have the "garden" out front, maybe they're going to plant flowers around it, you never know.
I'd rather have a gazing ball than a garishly painted toilet, charity or no..... ;)
Putting aside the fact that "Flush out hunger" really doesn't make any sense (what, they want to scare it out of the underbrush?) things could be worse. It could be a gazing toilet.
get over it. it's a free country.
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