Neighbor's yard was missing

Well?

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Grandad, tell us a story about the olden days, when you were young and men could walk on the moon.

So...Birdie....did you find out what happened??

Inquiring minds NEED to know! I think I am going to go outside now and hug my plants in memory of those who have gone before their time.

I came home one day & found that my neighbor had mowed my front yard, but it was just a friendly gesture.He just cut the grass.He was just a nice guy that was about 30yrs younger than me & thought it would be a nice gesture.I had one of my backdoor neighbors try to kill my blackberry vines with Roundup because they were growing on her side of the chainlink fence & she didn't know what they were. We talked, & came to an understanding. She wouldn't spray my vines with herbicides & she could pick all the berries she wanted...on her side of the fence. I had another neighbor that didn't like the Honeysuckle growing along the fence. He DEMANDED that I cut it down! I told him he could cut any of it on his side of the fence but he'd better not touch anything on my side of the fence. He was a renter & he moved. I grow tomatoes close to my fence & they do have a way of growing on the other side.I do enjoy sharing. I have a peach & a pear tree that extend their branches into the neighbors' yards & they don't seem to mind too much when the fruit is on their side of the fence. I can't imagine coming home to find my plants cut down or uprooted. :no:

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I was unable to talk to my neighbor. My phone broke in the a.m. so I had to get a new one after work, and I spent 1.5 hours in the store haggling out a new pone plan. By the time I got home it was too close to LOST to risk missing any of it. When I get home, I will stop at his house and talk with him.

Now the neighbor at the end of the street...yes, he has to drive by Kevin's house...we all do, since it's the only way to our houses...it's the only outlet, I guess you couls say. The guy goes by all of our houses to get to his, and don't think I haven't gotten dirty looks for the weeds I have growing. He's even taken to cuttin the tree that overhangs the roadway, in front of the house,because it drops purple berries onthe raod, and he hates running them over,or the leaves scrapping his truck.

Anyway, I'll try to get more info later...it's so bizarre going past there now, without any green.

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WENDY

Ever wonder why your pits don't smell until your near someone cute?

So, why have a TRUCK?? I thought they were made for driving OVER and UNDER things.....???
:no:
My pet peave is folks in a truck, pussy-footin around like it was a caddy....
ITS A TRUCK! DRIVE IT LIKE ONE!!

(wonder what mine looks like now??)

Disclaimer: this post is not intended to offend any truck drivers.....

I'm just sick reading this. IF I were he and had a choice, I'd move. BTW I've never heard of a case where people share a right of way/driveway that didn't eventually end in problems.

I'd rather a neighbor had butterfly bushes (which by the way are not considered invasive weeds in other parts of the country) than one that sprayed chemicals all over the place in a zealous fit to kill all signs of live in their yard.

I did live in a densely populated neighborhood once where a renter in one of the houses went off his meds and took lopped off everyone's bushes in very wierd ways. Was more than a little scarey until he moved away. Always invited the children inside at Halloween so parents who knew never let their kids do that. Wondered about all the parents who didn't accompany their kids when trick or treating.

Being a bit of an anarchist type, I could have some real fun with your OCD nieghbor.

Some Real Fun!

I'd start by raking all the berries off the lawn into the street.

Then I'd mow the grass so all the clippings went into the street.

Then I think I'd go buy the ugliest rustiest 25yr old car I could find that ran. Then I'd park it in the end of my drive with a $25,000 for sale sign on it so he would know it wasn't going anywhere soon. Of course being 25yrs old it would qualify for insurance that only cost $40.00 a year, so it would be legally lisenced, so nobody could say a thing.

If I didn't do that, I might just build another race car.

Or maybe all my old biker friends would like to come over for the pig I would roast right out on the front lawn.

I'm the type that could be the best nieghbor you could dream of.
I'm also the type of nieghbor, that if you mess with what's mine, I'll be your worst nightmare! :haha:

Right on woodsrunner. I would make the neighbors life less comfortable. I would invite all my redneck friends over and have a turkey shoot(shoot targets for prizes like guns, country hams etc. do not really shoot turkeys it is just called that). then I would shoot off fireworks late at night or might have night target practice.Or I might start my diesel truck late in the morning 2:00 am and ride up and down the road. Who does someone think they are destroying someone's property?
tnborn

Your neighbor needs to find a nice female ginkgo tree. In the spring the female ginkgo drops these big nuts that smell like a cross between vomit and hog poop.
And the smell sticks to everything and lingers. A few of these placed in the road in front of the offending neighbors house where he could run them over with that fancy truck. That truck will stick forever. Or maybe just a few shrimp shells
hidden somewhere inside the truck where he isnt apt to find them. Down inside a door panel or tucked under the carpet. Remember that story about the wife who's lawyer husband divorced her for a younger woman. The older wife let him keep the house but she carefully filled all the fancy curtain rods with ground up shellfish before she left. The house stank to high heaven and finally the lawyer and the new wife were forced to move as they couldnt find the cause of that awful smell.Yes you guessed it, they took all the drapes and rods with them.
Or maybe you could arrange for someone to accidently dump a load of liquid manure on this guys lawn. Mighty hard to clean up. Or perhaps just a few handfuls of something really fast growing and invasive like morning glory or bind weed broadcast over his front lawn. Just a few graceful gestures of the hand as you stroll by to scatter the seeds and let nature do its work. Time to be creative guys.

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FolioMark

Mus uni non fidit antro. ~ A mouse does not rely on just one hole.----Plautus

There isn't even an icon that can get close to the look on my face.

OK...we can stop planning horrible things for Mr. Snotty Neighbor. He was not the culprit.

I stopped at Kevin's house, he was sitting on the lawn. I asked if he found out who it was that killed his yard...he sat there, scratched his arm a little then cocked his head and said, "Do I kow who did this?", long pause, "yeah, I know." He kind of looked down a little, so I asked if it was his mom, and he looked up and said, "and some migrant worker."

This morning as I drove out to take the girls to school, there was a migrant worker clipping back the 15' hedge that is on the other side of the drive from Kevin's house....that's not Kevins hedge, but another neighbors.

In regards to the private drive, and all us sharing, yeah, it could become a problem, especially for Mr. Snotty...legally, his drive would connect with a guy who lives below him (We are all on hill with house below us). Kevin's mom who is at the corner, legally owned the private drive, but when the neighbor to the east of me moved in, his real estate agent told him to get a quilt claim from her so he could use that to get to and fromthe house...Steve's drive (my neighbor) would be below the house, right up against that apartment that is below me.

The only time it's a real hassel is when the road needs repaired from the damage of the garbage trucks. Since we are count and this is a private road, they can tear it up without fixing it. Right now, there are divits like you wouldn't believe. If we were on a flat surface, those divets would hold gallons of water.

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WENDY

Ever wonder why your pits don't smell until your near someone cute?

So what is the REST of the story????? Why did his mother have it done? Who was it bothering? Where does the migrant worker fit in....did she hire him?

I need to buy a vowel because I'm missing some pieces yet!

Who knows? He didn't seem like he wanted to elaborate, but I am still willing to pin this on the other neighbor. Maybe he complained to her that her yard was encroaching on the drive causing him to drive through her bushes or the hedge.

I know, as years have gone by, that hedge sticks further and further into the road, and you have no choice but to drive closer and closer to Kevin's yard. I'd rather have flowers scuff the side opf my caor or trick, then the sticks and branches of the hedge.

Kevin just looked sooo bummed, I couldn't ask him any more questions. I guess to him, it's like losing your dog, or something. Gotta give him a little time to heal.

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WENDY

Ever wonder why your pits don't smell until your near someone cute?

Is it possible that maybe Momma was asking her son to cut back his lawn for a while and he never did it so she took action? There seem to be some odd family dynamics going on there. Mother's Day at that house should be interesting.

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I had a chance to ask him, yesterday. Nope. She never said a word. He was more shocked than I was the yard was gone. She's never complained, never talked to him about it, nothing. He is still visibly angry. Years of hard work is sitting on the side of his yard drying up. I don't know what kind of rift this has caused, but there is something there, now.

When I asked him, he was in the drive. I said why did she do it, he hessitated, looked up to the window that overlooks where he was in the drive, (I think to make sure she wasn't there, or something) and said, I have no idea. She never talked to me. I just came home from work and found it like that.

This will remain an enigma, I suppose. I went out and looked at all my trees, bushes and plants, yesterday.

Have you hugged you apple tree today?

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WENDY

Ever wonder why your pits don't smell until your near someone cute?

So sad. I think momma's gone over the edge. One of them needs to move out, maybe to the funny farm. Sounds like a cry for help after a long, long psychological decline. Suppressed rage erupting. I feel sorry for both of them.

I don't know if it will help, but, my husbands uncle once hired a bulldozing crew to flatten the bottom of a creek that ran through his place.

He was no longer 100%, you see, and he really thought that it would stay the way the crew made it. Most people who were "with it" would not have done this even if it WOULD stay the way the crew left it.

I am hoping that you posted that tongue in cheek and not as a something everyone should do to a foul nieghbor..... because in most baliwicks it is kinda almost a felony to do that. Ok not that i havent thought of things like that for idiots who give me grief.... but planting a noxiious weed can get you a hefty fine and doing it on someone elses property will get you jail time....

But if a person reads a book like"Get even" or "Get Even II" which were big sellers a few years back for Paladin Press and Loompanics [both online of course] they can get quite a few ideas for "Revenge" which was a thrid in the series....

Anyway, thinking and doing are completely different.... and personally i doubt anyone would want a female ginko tree anywhere the wind might blow in their direction.

William

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That is beyond strange!