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Sour grapes do not make a good wine
posted by
Annicita
on August 14, 2024 at 8:40 PM
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LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF. Good that are after all, good neighbors.
posted by
anib
on August 6, 2024 at 12:10 AM
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Good afternoon
Thank you for clearing that up. It makes a lot of sense why he feels he has some sort of a right of passage to your property. When we bought our house last year, our neighbor admitted that he had wanted to purchase our house before we moved in as renters ten years prior. During our first two years in the house, he would spray for weeds by the fence that divides our property, inadvertently killing the tomatoes and peppers we had planted in our raised beds. He used to have a house on the adjacent property, but not any longer. He gave us some of the old wood from his torn-down house that we used to make the raised beds. He now only has a garage on the property that he calls his man cave. He has asked us to take the fence down so that neither of us has to weed whack along the fence line and so we can walk back and forth freely through the two yards. He was here first, so he feels he has the upper hand. Not only do we not want to take the fence down, we are considering putting up a 6-foot wooden fence in place of the old chainlink fence. I can't even imagine what he would have to say about that. 
posted by
Sherri_G
on August 5, 2024 at 3:16 PM
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One of my next-door neighbors is a master gardener with a yard that looks like a magazine cover. The other is a working single mom with a full-time job and she lets her lawn get shaggy, but I believe she's got much more important stuff to deal with than keeping a perfect yard. Neither one gripes about me sitting on my porch crocheting. It's all good.
posted by
Pat_B
on August 5, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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Good Afternoon
Sea Gypsy, thanks for sharing the back story of your neighbor and your home.
posted by
Goldiec
on August 5, 2024 at 11:04 AM
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I have never had a neighbor that would have made me think about moving...What you ended your entry with has put things into perspective.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on August 5, 2024 at 10:37 AM
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Re: Sea Gypsy
I expect your neighbor would have a shock, if he lived next to some folk.
Some Indian people have moved in across the road, but they seemed friendly
giving a wave as Archie worked on the garden. I must admit folk are not as friendly
as they used to be because once we knew all by name or sight. In the villages a lot of folk
were related, they somehow had nicknames as one chap said to me once. 'You know who I
mean he was one of the Bagass Williams.🌺
posted by
C_C_T
on August 5, 2024 at 8:09 AM
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TAPS - Thank you.
Yep, you are so right. Everywhere. All we can do is our best.
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on August 4, 2024 at 9:46 PM
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Re: Kabu
I'm glad you have a good neighbor. She sounds like fun and it's nice to have the little one sometimes. Our neighbor to the other side is great as well.
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on August 4, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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Sea-Gypsy.....
.......There are "strange" people everywhere it seems. Ya just do the best you can.
posted by
TAPS.
on August 4, 2024 at 9:37 PM
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Goodness some people are lucky others not.
We live very quietly but I do love my next door neighbour on the down side...we are almost to the top of a hill. She has fascinating family. Some times she lives on her own and sometimes there is a daughter or now, a granddaughter living with her and a two years old who loves to talk to Grandma next doors...me! I love it as well.
posted by
Kabu
on August 4, 2024 at 9:36 PM
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