beautification

More than a month ago, D. and I went outside to take a walk around the neighborhood. We found a middle aged couple wearing Home Depot shirts (at least it wasn't Lowes) peering throughtfully at the bushes in front of our porch. They introduced themselves and said our landlady had hired them to remove weeds, trim the bushes, put in some flowers, etc., sounding as if this was all going to happen soon. We said oh, that's nice, and went on our way, expecting to come home one afternoon and find that poof! flowers had appeared. This never happened, and just this morning I was thinking that I must have misunderstood something, because clearly they weren't coming. But I was wrong, they showed up half an hour ago and seem to be doing things to the driveway with a weed whacker. (I don't think this will keep the driveway weeds away for long, if the project were left to me I would use roundup, but still.) Now I'm just waiting to see if flowers will have magically appeared next time I go outside.