Thursday, April 21, 2011
My two Angels
No, this is not a post about any two of my children. It is about the conflicting feelings that I have for my backyard neighbor. You know how when you feel like Kronk in Emperor's New Groove, and you have the good angel and the bad angel on either shoulder telling you what to do? Well right now instead of tying my neighbor in a bag and throwing him in a river I am waffling between planting the most gorgeous bed of flowers in my back yard for him to enjoy OR (and this is a BIG "OR") leaving a burning pile of dog crap on his doorstep and ringing the doorbell and running.
This is a lot to think about.
See we have this crazy yard that backs up to a large neighborhood road. I do not have a house adjoining my backyard, but a road and then across the road is the front of more houses that have been here forever. Therefore there is a 20-30 foot easement from the center of the road into our back yard property. My yard is only .17 acres and has a 50 foot drop off from the house to the bottom of the yard where this easement is. We thought it would be a perfect place to park our snow machines for the summer.
Less than 12 hours after they were put there, the police were at our door answering a complaint about our easement violation.
Seriously?
So we measured, moved the machines back a foot, called the city to make sure our property plans matched their's and thought we were set.
Oh no....the city people showed up today! The complaint had been issued again! I was so mad. My choices in neighbors, who are actually across the backstreet in my back yard, who could have issued the complaint are the Old Man Who has Lived Here for Thirty Years and the sort of Frat House Renters of Army boys.
I bet it wasn't the Frat House Army boys.
So JaDee was out measuring and moving snow machines to the very inch of our property (and trying to locate an elusive corner stake that will solve this problem) when Old Man Who has Lived Here for Thirty Years walked across the street to talk to him.
He was glad the snow machines were ours, since he was worried it was the Frat House parking more vehicles all over the neighborhood. But not only did he talk to JaDee about our property, he invited JaDee over to take a look at the property plot that he has saved since the neighborhood went in back in 1994.
Yeah, psycho guy was so annoyed at the new development going in back then, and fought it's development from the start (he has been here since it was all dirt roads apparently), that he not only made the complaint, he has property maps of every single back yard that he faces. And it seems he has vowed to hold a personal vendetta against every person who ever buys one of these "new" houses.
I am kind of leaning towards burning bag of crap.
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Lawsie, we have had several neighbors like this! I wonder what happened to them when they were children to make them hoard land like they do. I say, kill him with kindness. Invite him to the Primary Program, bake him cookies, take little Olivia over there with you. How could you not LOVE that little doll? Good luck.
I'd leave the crap first... than kill him with kindness. The crap will make you feel better and he'll probably assume it was the frat boys! Lol- love the post by the way!
Oh yeah, those types love a kissin up to. Definitely go for the cookies cause hes the guy you want on your side.
Yeah, that was me not Steve! :)
Wow! The poo were surely make you feel better; but sending over the kids with cookies would make him feel worse..(maybe) which would then make you feel best!! (Ya think?)
I hate to be the downer, but I am one of those annoying neighbors who complains about stuff like that. OKay, maybe not that bad but you better believe we called a complaint when our neighbor across the street parked his semi-truck on the street and then idled it for 30 minutes at 5:30 am to get it warmed up! And it just so happens we have a lot of connections with the police department.
But on the otherside, if you are not breaking any codes and it's YOUR property, then old man across the street can just sit in his own stew.
OH, and i totally thought this post was going to be about your kids :)
In our community, we have an HOA. We have a love/hate relationship with the said HOA. It keeps our neighborhood looking nice and enforces the bylaws (like bringing your garbages into the garage in a timely manner, no crazy landscaping ideas, etc.) to maintain the look and feel of the neighborhood. However, it is a pain in the butt when you have to "ask permission" to put in a fence or paint your front door. But we knew upon choosing the area, what we were getting ourselves into. Plus we like having a community lake, pool, fitness center, splash pool, etc. Parking snowmobiles in the back yard would cerainly merit a warning letter from the HOA. (Don't worry, we've had a few since living there) But we certainly don't bake cookies for our HOA enforcers.
Wish it was about your kids and not the grumpy old man across the street. You are kind of out of luck, you'll always be one of 'the new neighbors'. I would go for the cookies though. But thinking of more poop ideas would probably help you feel better.
I hope you didn't think I was unempathetic to your crazy neighbor.......In fact I'm the exact opposite. I know exactly what it feels like to have my yard/house monitored by the HOA nazis. They will even take photos and mail them to you to "prove" you were in violation. Unfortunately you didn't know what you were in for upon moving in.....
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