BOULDER, CO — What could be better on a sunny day than to work amongst the green and growing things while wearing as little clothing as possible? That’s certainly the philosophy of two clothing very optional gardeners whose neighbors say they’ve pretty much seen it all – and would like it to stop.Robert and Catharine Pierce are fifty-something renters who love to tend their front yard garden, thus theoretically beautifying the neighborhood and helping increase its property values.
Alas for the duo, their preferred mode of dress during their gardening exertions has been distressing their neighbors.
The Pierces prefer to putter in the nearly all-together.
Thongs and pasties are plenty for the flower lovers – and the law is technically on their side since they keep their dangly and cleft bits covered at all times.
That doesn’t mean that their landlord, who has apparently heard more than enough about how the Pierces look in their almost buff, is happy about the situation. Indeed, Boulder’s Daily Camera reports that the couple may well be facing eviction for becoming a neighborhood nuisance.
Said lord of the land is Boulder Housing Partners, which is charge of the city’s affordable housing program, which the Pierces have taken advantage of in order to geo-locate in their rental housing.
Although Boulder Housing Partners is struggling to figure out whether the Pierces technically quality as “nuisances,” something the organization’s director admits is difficult, the couple insist that all they want is their “freedom.”
“We want our freedom,” the dangly bit bearing Pierce informed the Daily Camera. We want exactly what the law gives us and we don’t want to be harassed about it.”
Unfortunately, executive director of Boulder Housing Partners, Betsy Martens, doesn’t think it’s quite that simple.
“It’s not a legal issue,” Martens insists. “It’s a community issue. We try and balance the needs of the whole community.”
Whatever one thinks of scantily clad gardening in general, one has to wonder why “the whole community” has so much time to watch two half-century gardeners putter in their front yard, pasties and thongs or more.
