My neighbor would like a plate of "mind your own damn business" with a side of "shut your piehole", please.

[thehstrybean]

Pics of house?

There's a lady down the street from me, and if you LOOK at her yard the wrong way, she gets pissed. One time, I was walking with my friend from down the street, and he had his dog. His dog stepped foot in her yard (it was walking on the curb and took 1-2 steps...it's a weird dog)...didn't take a sh!t or anything, just STEPPED, and she called animal control and the cops.

 

[doze]

When grass gets high then snakes, mice, and other pests are more likely to gather there and if your yard is right next to bob's then I can possibly see his concern. Also if one lawn looks bad then it makes the whole neighborhood look bad so unelss your back yard is fenced in and cannot be seen then cut your grass or pay some kid $20 to do it for you.

 

[NuclearNed]

Several people apparently didn't read this paragraph:

Last weekend I was out of town on a short vacation, and when I returned it rained for a couple of days. In short, I didn't get to start mowing my yard until yesterday (which I completed today). Granted, it looked pretty horrendous and the grass was knee deep. While I don't pour money and time into my yard like a lot of my rich neighbors, I usually keep it neat and trim. It is the rare exception when I don't mow once a week.

If anything, I mow my yard more frequently than Bob. Generally the way it works is that I mow my yard, then the next day Bob mows his. He almost always waits on me to mow mine before he mows his. It is extremely rare for my yard to be untidy.

Also, I live in a subdivision that is outside city limits, out in the country. There is no HOA and there never will be one. In spite of that, I do my best to keep my property looking good - I don't want to be that neighbor that everyone hates.

 

[NuclearNed]

Originally posted by: CarpeDeo
Oh the irony . . .

Bob has an issue with you, but isn't man enough to confront you, so he goes to your wife.

Now you have an issue with Bob, but instead of confronting him, you go to ATOT.

Rest assured that I'm trying to give Bob the benefit of the doubt and believe that this is just a misunderstanding. If it turns out that Bob keeps having an issue, I'll have a chat with him.

 

[NuclearNed]

Originally posted by: everman
I want to hear about the "Bob's son's dog killed my giant sequoia" incident.

Ok - the short version:

A few years ago I bought 3 giant sequoia saplings and put them in my yard, where they were thriving. Bob has an adult son who has a large golden retriever. Every time Bob's son comes to visit (usually several times a week) he brings his dog, and lets the dog roam anywhere he likes. As soon as the dog was released from the truck, he always made a beeline to the nearest sequoia and whizzed on it. I saw it happen too many times to count. It wasn't too long before the tree started turning brown, and despite my best efforts it eventually died.

 

[alkemyst]

unless you own like major acres why plant giant sequoias? It's going to be a future problem in that neighborhood.

How much room do you have between properties there? HOA or not if you are even on 1 acre plots...that is a lot of bad curb appeal if one let's there homestead go to hell.

edit: I want to add...if you know your grass is going to be knee deep when you get back (here in florida during the peak months you almost should cut twice a week), paid a service or even a neighbor's kid to do it. They probably will not do as great a job as you would but you won't be the kid with a cold sore on his lip either.

 

[NuclearNed]

Originally posted by: alkemyst
unless you own like major acres why plant giant sequoias? It's going to be a future problem in that neighborhood.

How much room do you have between properties there? HOA or not if you are even on 1 acre plots...that is a lot of bad curb appeal if one let's there homestead go to hell.

edit: I want to add...if you know your grass is going to be knee deep when you get back (here in florida during the peak months you almost should cut twice a week), paid a service or even a neighbor's kid to do it. They probably will not do as great a job as you would but you won't be the kid with a cold sore on his lip either.

I own about 1/2 an acre, which isn't a huge amount of land. However, while giant sequoias eventually get huge, they are a very common ornamental tree. They don't get to be problem huge for many many years.

 

[LordMaul]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: bunker
To the matter at hand, yes, Bob should have said something to you instead of talking to your wife.

Unless I read the first post wrong, Bob did say something to him. He told Bob he was taking care of it. Then he didn't finish the job. You have to understand something - if you put time and money into your lawn, you get a little sensitive about adjoining lawns. Tall grass = snakes, rodents, insects, grass seed, weed seed, higher water usage from ground. You can spend hundreds getting rid of dandelions from your yard, and the shmuck next door can kill your lawn in just a few weeks.

Wow. Way to be a stuck-up obnoxious neighbor. You sound like you could be a stereotypical next-door asshat on some sitcom show.

In other news:

But if you don't have the rocks to say something to my face [...] then you fail at manhood and should be forced to have a gender reassignment with one of those little tools people use to trim dog toenails.

Awesome. :thumbsup:

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
I own about 1/2 an acre, which isn't a huge amount of land. However, while giant sequoias eventually get huge, they are a very common ornamental tree. They don't get to be problem huge for many many years.

still a huge problem.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: LordMaul

Originally posted by: SagaLore
Unless I read the first post wrong, Bob did say something to him. He told Bob he was taking care of it. Then he didn't finish the job. You have to understand something - if you put time and money into your lawn, you get a little sensitive about adjoining lawns. Tall grass = snakes, rodents, insects, grass seed, weed seed, higher water usage from ground. You can spend hundreds getting rid of dandelions from your yard, and the shmuck next door can kill your lawn in just a few weeks.

Wow. Way to be a stuck-up obnoxious neighbor. You sound like you could be a stereotypical next-door asshat on some sitcom show.

Uh, no, its called trying to understand what other people of thinking. I don't give a crap what the lawns next to me look like.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
I own about 1/2 an acre, which isn't a huge amount of land. However, while giant sequoias eventually get huge, they are a very common ornamental tree. They don't get to be problem huge for many many years.

still a huge problem.

Probably not in our lifetimes...The sequioas in Yosemite and Sequoia/Kings Canyon national parks are hundreds, if not thousands of years old...

 

[altonb1]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: bunker

Originally posted by: ncircle
i have a similar neighbor.
if you dont live in a HOA then they just have to deal.
i cut my lawn every week and half..sometimes two weeks.
some are twice a weekers here.

I have yet to find a city or township that doesn't have regulations in regards to the length of your lawn.

To the matter at hand, yes, Bob should have said something to you instead of talking to your wife.

My parents live in one - because they don't live in any sort of city or township. The "local government" is the COUNTY government. And they have bigger issues to worry about than lawns. I live in one - York, PA.

Well, that settles it--no more lawn mowing until next spring. I'm done. (Except I think my township probably DOES have some sortof regulation whther York County itself cares or not.)

 

[1sikbITCH]

Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
Is it too much to ask that you mow your lawn?

Absolutely. It's my property, and none of your business. If you don't like it, put up a fence or a For Sale sign.

My neighbor raises pigeons, and by pigeons I mean about 200 of them. They've got their own house in the back yard. Some days there is an unpleasant odor (to put it nicely) in my back yard. I could be an ass about the smell, but he's a nice guy, he loves his birds, and otherwise he's a very good neighbor. If I start harrassing him about his pigeons, our otherwise great relationship will sour and I'll have to hate my neighbors.

Crying over unimportant stuff like that is stupid.

 

[BUTCH1]

My city will put a notice on your door if the lawn gets really bad, mow it or we will mow it
for you @$150...Also no unregisterd cars are allowed in driveway. Sounds controlling
but what if you lived next to me and wanted to sell your place and the prospects see
a lawn 10" high and a "66 falcon on blocks that I'm going to rebuild someday! The rules
are to protect everyone's property values....

 

[probzy]

Haha.