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June 1st, we received an anonymous hand written letter from a concerned neighbor stating our yard was out of control and they would appreciate it if we could mow our yard.  They also suggested we pay for yard maintenance, since it doesn't cost much. 
We have a new neighbor living across the street from us.  She moved in this last Spring.  She, like most of the other neighbors on our street, pay to have their yards maintained.
It just so happened my husband was putting gas in the lawn mower when I showed him the letter we had received in our mail box that same day.  He proceeded to mow the yard as he had planned, but was very irritated. 
July 3rd, we received an anonymous envelope containing a Sac Bee newspaper clipping of an article highlighted in green indicating a fellow homeowner in East Sac was fined for not maintaining their yard.  Stapled to the newspaper clipping was the yellow pages listing lawn maintenance companies. 
As I opened the mail, the new neighbor drove into her garage across the street.  I decided to walk over to introduce myself and ask her if she was the person who wrote the concerned neighbor letter, and did she put the newspaper clipping and yellow pages in our mail box. 
We were both polite, friendly, yet to the point.  She admitted she was the one who had given us the anonymous mail.  She also advised that we hadn't maintained our yard since June 1st.  I couldn't believe it had already been over a month.  I told her I must be in a time warp.  She said she moved into our neighborhood after living in Gold River, where everything was perfect all of the time.  She said if she had known we weren't going to maintain our yard, she would not have bought the house across the street from us.
I apologized to her for having our initial meeting under these circumstances.  I told her the past year has been crazy at our house.  I use to do all of the yard work, but then I got pregnant with twins, was put on bed rest, and now I'm a twin mom.  Life hasn't slowed down a bit.  My husband took over responsibility for the yard, but he hardly does any yard work.  I told her we would work on getting our yard under control and try to keep it under control. 
Paying for yard maintenance is not in our monthly budget.  But honestly, my husband will probably only do yard work once a month.  So my husband and I discussed the issue.  Our solution: hire a yard maintenance company.  We'll have to readjust our budge to make it work.  We called one of our long time neighbors to get the phone # for the yard maintenance company they use.  We shared the current new neighbor drama with them.  Their solution:  Put a big sign on our garage announcing the day of the week our yard will be mowed next.