About a week ago my next door neighbor was out mowing his lawn. He was mowing along our joint property line.
I showed up with a friend (yes, I have one), a truck and trailer and a 500 gallon diesel fuel tank. Friend and I unload the fuel tank and set in in place adjacent to the driveway that leads to my workshop, about 20 feet from the corner of my workshop and about 30 feet from my property line. My neighbor never stops mowing, but he obviously sees what is going on, he's only 30 or 40 feet away from me during this process.
Neighbor goes inside. My friend comments that the neighbor never waved, stopped to chat, etc. Comments he must be odd.
EVERY DAY THIS WEEK . . .
I am outside at the south edge of my property (our joint property line) watering the lawn. I see him drive in and out a couple times, he can't miss me.
FAST FORWARD TO YESTERDAY EVENING . . .
My wife tells me that she got a message from the neighbor that he wants me to call him about the fuel tank?
So today I am outside working. I'm putting "rust reformer" on the fuel tank so that I can paint it. The neighbor's garage door goes up. His garage door is 65' away from where I am working. He and his little dog come out of the garage, he sees me and takes the dog back inside, closes the door.
So I hear from another neighbor that this guy is pissed off that I put a fuel tank on my property.
OK, well I didn't think it would make me popular, but there are 2 large pine trees blocking part of the view from his house to my tank. I also plan to paint it a nice green color. I also have purchased a half dozen evergreen bushes (5 to 6 feet tall already) to plant around this thing to make it almost invisible from most directions (except from my workshop). And there is already a large (non-evergreen) bush blocking much of the view from the road.
My question is, if he is not man enough to simply talk to me when I'm out there, why the hell should I show him the courtesy of calling him back? This is the same neighbor who called an yelled at my wife because I was shooting on my yard and MISTAKENLY claimed my bullets were landing on his property. And this is the same neighbor who for quite a while believed that about 1 acre of my property belonged to him (I showed him otherwise in a very nice way). And this is the same neighbor whose driveway crosses about 6" onto my property at the corner of his drive and who I told "don't worry about it."
So now my wife wants me to put up a 6' privacy fence from behind my workshop back to the woods. Doing so would effectively reduce "his perceived" back yard by about 1/3 of its size. I've always let his daughter play across the property line and I've always let him use that part of my yard freely when he has parties, etc. Heck I can't even see that part of the yard from my house because of woods and terrain.
My daughter says he is so angry because my workshop is almost as large as his house and actually looks nicer!
I don't interact with my neighbors. I didn't move their to become their friends. I'm 'friendly' but not anyone's friend. I just live my life and go about my business. Does he really have any reason to bitch? There is no law being broken, no other issue, etc. My wife is pretty much of the opinion that we should build "THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA" along our property line because she thinks the guy is a creep.
I showed up with a friend (yes, I have one), a truck and trailer and a 500 gallon diesel fuel tank. Friend and I unload the fuel tank and set in in place adjacent to the driveway that leads to my workshop, about 20 feet from the corner of my workshop and about 30 feet from my property line. My neighbor never stops mowing, but he obviously sees what is going on, he's only 30 or 40 feet away from me during this process.
Neighbor goes inside. My friend comments that the neighbor never waved, stopped to chat, etc. Comments he must be odd.
EVERY DAY THIS WEEK . . .
I am outside at the south edge of my property (our joint property line) watering the lawn. I see him drive in and out a couple times, he can't miss me.
FAST FORWARD TO YESTERDAY EVENING . . .
My wife tells me that she got a message from the neighbor that he wants me to call him about the fuel tank?
So today I am outside working. I'm putting "rust reformer" on the fuel tank so that I can paint it. The neighbor's garage door goes up. His garage door is 65' away from where I am working. He and his little dog come out of the garage, he sees me and takes the dog back inside, closes the door.
So I hear from another neighbor that this guy is pissed off that I put a fuel tank on my property.
OK, well I didn't think it would make me popular, but there are 2 large pine trees blocking part of the view from his house to my tank. I also plan to paint it a nice green color. I also have purchased a half dozen evergreen bushes (5 to 6 feet tall already) to plant around this thing to make it almost invisible from most directions (except from my workshop). And there is already a large (non-evergreen) bush blocking much of the view from the road.
My question is, if he is not man enough to simply talk to me when I'm out there, why the hell should I show him the courtesy of calling him back? This is the same neighbor who called an yelled at my wife because I was shooting on my yard and MISTAKENLY claimed my bullets were landing on his property. And this is the same neighbor who for quite a while believed that about 1 acre of my property belonged to him (I showed him otherwise in a very nice way). And this is the same neighbor whose driveway crosses about 6" onto my property at the corner of his drive and who I told "don't worry about it."
So now my wife wants me to put up a 6' privacy fence from behind my workshop back to the woods. Doing so would effectively reduce "his perceived" back yard by about 1/3 of its size. I've always let his daughter play across the property line and I've always let him use that part of my yard freely when he has parties, etc. Heck I can't even see that part of the yard from my house because of woods and terrain.
My daughter says he is so angry because my workshop is almost as large as his house and actually looks nicer!
PHOTO 1 BELOW: A view from the upstairs of my workshop toward the neighbors house. You can see the torn up ground for my new septic. My property extends to the left side of that septic area past the first large tree in the yard to nearly the second large tree. My property line actually crosses the back corner of his driveway --photo is deceptive because his drive angles toward my lot and the rear and away from my property at the street.
PHOTO 2 BELOW: A view during construction/expansion of the workshop. You can see a Spruce Tree and a tall Aborviate on the far left. The fuel tank now sits in front of those so they block the view of the tank from his house. Several more evergreens will be planted to more fully obscure the view of the tank.
PHOTO 2 BELOW: A view during construction/expansion of the workshop. You can see a Spruce Tree and a tall Aborviate on the far left. The fuel tank now sits in front of those so they block the view of the tank from his house. Several more evergreens will be planted to more fully obscure the view of the tank.
I don't interact with my neighbors. I didn't move their to become their friends. I'm 'friendly' but not anyone's friend. I just live my life and go about my business. Does he really have any reason to bitch? There is no law being broken, no other issue, etc. My wife is pretty much of the opinion that we should build "THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA" along our property line because she thinks the guy is a creep.
