The text is about the neighbors of the owner of this story. He is a gardener. He plants bulbs and look forward to beautiful display of flowers but it doesn't grow up because the next-door neighbor's dog digs the bulbs up. He give it the benefit of the doubt. But sometimes the same dogs chases bird away from his vegetable patch and it is the reason why sometimes he love it and hate it at other times. There is his neighbor across the street. She has children and they often sit on his garden, leave the rubbish and make a lot of noise but he need to keep on good terms because their mom is so good to him.