Flower gardens and activism

Many of you know that my sweet wife, Joyce, takes care of a few city flower gardens as a volunteer. I got her permission to tell this tale, which I think illustrates the importance of taking a stand for what you believe in.
She takes her flower gardening very seriously, and does not take kindly to anyone interfering with her handiwork. (you may remember me talking about her garden at the library and skateboarders.)
She takes care of the flower garden at Kansas Avenue, and was riled up earlier this week when someone - the city maybe - put up a Renaissance Fair sign in front of her flowers.
The stakes were pushed into the ground in the dirt she had worked, and were in a spot where it made it difficult for her to move around in the flower garden. What was worse, it blocked the view of her flowers from the street.
The sign was awfully close to her flowers.
She was furious and called the city and let them know about it. The city provides the plants and material, and she does the work. She called whoever she deals with at the city, and maybe someone else asking (putting it mildly) that the sign be removed.
She would have been happy if they would have just moved it over a few feet, so as to not obstruct the view of the flowers. The sign also blocked needed sunlight from the plants.
Nothing happened.
She stewed.
This morning she went over there to do some watering, and whatever else she does to keep the flowers looking good, and when she got back she had this smile of satisfaction on her face.
She told me she had taken the sign down herself because the city had not done so.
Being the meticulous and polite person she is, she took the sign down and carefully placed the poles and wire beside it. She also wrote a note saying what she had done and why, and asked that if it were put back up, to not block out her flowers. She attached the note to the poles so that there would be no doubt as to what had happened.
She wasn't finished.
While I was still soaking in all this information, she called the city office she deals with about the flowers. She left a message telling him that she had taken the sign down because the city had not taken it down nearly a week after being asked.
I asked her why she did that.
She said.
"I didn't want them to think some vandal had taken the sign down."