Annoying Neighbors...

[penguinz]

People behind us put up a new privacy fence and faced the unfinished side to all the neighbors.

They had a fence company install it. You would think the fence company would be aware that it is a code violation to face the unfinished side to neighbors.

If they had installed correctly there would not not be a 5" gap that I now have to fill between the new fence and our adjoining fence so our dog can't get out.

[penguinz]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

Yep. And a real strong wind carries the bigger maple limbs farther because most of them are hollow.

Thanks for reminding me of that. Now I have to go catch a beaver and train it to chew the trunk so it falls away from us.

[penguinz]

Originally Posted by Rainbarrel

Mulberry and blue Jays are a combo from hell

Originally Posted by htismaqe

Raccoons love them too.

Have both of them as well. One of the osage orange trees has a hollowed out section that a racoon lives in. Seen that bastard on the deck eating food the dog left behind.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by penguinz

Maples just spread the seeds like mad and they go everywhere. Silve Maples also get huge and then start breaking off large branches.

I thought our two trees were silver maples and we have no problems like that at all. Maybe ours are some different variant or something. They just grow leaves and are generally pleasant.

I'm really bummed that they're getting old. The tree maintainers said that we'll have to consider taking them down in the next 5-10 years. Per htismaqe's comment, they're starting to get a little internal rot.

When we were new to our house we had to take down a pretty large catalpa tree because it was right next to our foundation. That hurt. The sweet gum article that I linked earlier also made a negative statement about catalpas, but I think they're gorgeous trees.

[Eureka]

Originally Posted by kcpasco

Slam your door shut next time. Hopefully her cats scratch the hell out of her.

Originally Posted by Rain Man

You should type up a fake research paper that discusses how surprise loud noises are healthy for cats since it stimulates their sensory system. Put a bunch of citations in it of other fake cat-noise studies, and include quotes from famous cat scientists.

Originally Posted by htismaqe

Haha you guys are great! She leaves us alone for the most part.

I was mistakenly calling her Wyoming for quite awhile. HELLO WYOMING as I waved. Then my wife reminded me that her name is Cheyenne.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by penguinz

Have both of them as well. One of the osage orange trees has a hollowed out section that a racoon lives in. Seen that bastard on the deck eating food the dog left behind.

Fortunately, we have so many opossums that come up to eat the cat food outside that we don't have much left for the raccoons.

[ptlyon]

These trees lived close to you?

[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by ptlyon

These trees lived close to you?

'bout tree miles away.

[LoneWolf]

Originally Posted by penguinz

My neighborhood was established in the 70s. We have so many mature, undesirable types of trees.

We have 4 osage orange stumps, those ****ers will be here long after WWIII, two living ones and a mulberry tree in our yard. Neighbors have silver maple, sycamore (all the leaves end up in my yard), sweet gum, cottonwood, bradford pears.

I need to just sell this place and move out to the country on property that has mature pine and oak trees.

Sycamore trees suck. The first house my wife and I bought together had about a 50 foot Sycamore tree in the backyard. I spent every summer weekend picking up bark, twigs and branches from that piece of shit and then in the fall the amount of leaves it dropped were ridiculous.

[penguinz]

Originally Posted by LoneWolf

Sycamore trees suck. The first house my wife and I bought together had about a 50 foot Sycamore tree in the backyard. I spent every summer weekend picking up bark, twigs and branches from that piece of shit and then in the fall the amount of leaves it dropped were ridiculous.

The way my street is all the leaves from that sycamore end up in my yard and is a total pia to clean them up. The amount and the size of leaves is insane.

[eDave]

Is it an HOA violation? If so, narc them out.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by LoneWolf

Sycamore trees suck. The first house my wife and I bought together had about a 50 foot Sycamore tree in the backyard. I spent every summer weekend picking up bark, twigs and branches from that piece of shit and then in the fall the amount of leaves it dropped were ridiculous.

Yep. It's really really soft wood and sheds in a light breeze.

[eDave]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

Yep. It's really really soft wood and sheds in a light breeze.

You should get yourself a bunch of Palo Verde trees. Yellow snow. I hate them and always have them removed from a new place.

[Peter Gibbons]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

Yep. It's really really soft wood and sheds in a light breeze.

That’s what she said.

[penguinz]

Originally Posted by eDave

Is it an HOA violation? If so, narc them out.

No HOA. Have to report to city.

I am probably just going to plant some bushes so I don't have to look at it.

[displacedinMN]

Originally Posted by penguinz

No HOA. Have to report to city.

I am probably just going to plant some bushes so I don't have to look at it.

I hate neighbors.

Call the city on them and have the city inspector come out on a code violation. I know our city inspector by name. I also work part time for the city golf course, so we see each other once in a while.