I wanna be a hoe

About 3 years ago, my friend Cricket and I volunteered to tend a community Adopt A Spot. We started out strong but kinda lost steam around August. The next year we thought we'd try again, only to fail miserably by June. So when my friend Tamara suggested that a group of 6 gals sign up for a spot this year, I had my reservations. However, it's been a rainy summer and with the number of people involved, it's turned out quite well except for one thing: our name.

In 2003, Cricket and I had originally requested that our placard read, "this Adopt A Spot maintained by 2 Hoes". Now we don't live in a conservative community by any means but we knew the AAS committee was mostly, well...biddies. We hoped that we could pull one over on them but biddies ain't dumb so....no sign.

Fast forward to 2006 and the AAS committee has changed leadership. Since we are a big group, the committee decides to give us a large, prominent spot in a busy part of town. What better place for hoes to get dirty? We submit our name for the placard and while told the city counsel got quite a chuckle, they didn't feel "this Adopt A Spot maintained by 6 Hoes" represented our fair city correctly. So we water down the request to "6 Garden Gnomes" because their suggestion of "6 Garden Friends" sounded too boringly white bread. That was over a month ago and STILL NO SIGN. Garden nazis.

So we're planning our revenge: come fall, we're throwing a "Hoe Down" in our spot. Hope you can be there!