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April 02, 2007
Good Fences
We spent a fairly uneventful weekend working on the yard.....uneventful except for watching a couple of our neighbors fuss over a property line. The son of our behind neighbor had spent most of last week busting his butt clearing out the brush & removing an old fence. Which wasn't surprising, as they work hard keeping their property neat & tidy. However the cat lady, whose property adjoins theirs (and is catty-corner, no pun intended, to us) apparently took offense, and planted a bunch of stuff along the old fence line. She told our neighbor something like she didn't want it looking like Oklahoma....which is pretty funny considering you could plop her property down in any rural ghetto & it'd fit right in. It is, hands down, the junkiest place in the neighborhood.
The problem with her landscaping? That wasn't her property to plant. See, the custom is, unless there's a mutual agreement otherwise, is to set one's fence back from the actual property line about 1 foot. Which is what our back neighbor had done. The cat lady, not being from around here, is insisting that the fence was on the property line. Our back neighbors, who've owned their place since back in the day when this was all a dairy farm, know better. And judging from the rather heated discussion we saw them having yesterday, things are getting interesting.
They're fixing to get even more interesting because our back neighbor has decided they're putting up a privacy fence between them & her. Good for them I say, maybe it'll keep some of her kajillion cats in her own yard instead of roaming the neighborhood spreading fleas.
Not to mention what all her cats do to our neighbor's garden spot. In case you didn't know it, cat crap is the anti-fertilizer....kills every plant it touches. And all that nice loose dirt in their garden is a kitty magnet. There's a reason good neighbors don't let their animals roam the neighborhood, even if one is foolish enough to think cats ought to be free, free like the wind.
Yeah, right. Born free, die young.
Posted by Rita at April 2, 2007 05:24 AM