"It hasn't happened for a year or so, but the gnomes used to disappear and end up in someone else's garden and I'd have to go ...

The garden gnomes stared at me from our cluttered carport, dirty and bored, no blooming flowers to observe or tomato vines to tickle their bellies. I was holding on to them well past their desire.  ...

She also has a “gnome village” in her garden, those tacky garden gnomes you see in lawn and garden stores that you can paint ...