Post #127109 by stuff-o-rama on Tue, Nov 23, 2004 4:47 PM

I spent the entire summer re-building my patio off of my bedroom and re-landscaping my backyard. ("Not bad for a girl", my Dad would say.)

My neighbor's lot is lower than mine, about 3 - 4 feet down. They built a retaining wall against our lot as we live close to the beach and our houses are built on a very sandy soil.

One day they decided to remove the "offensive" retaining wall as they claim it "Was just plain too ugly to look at."

Here's your irony:

...is that the sound of banjos I hear?

In this back yard is one broken down, rusted up swing set, a mattress that is tore up leaning against the back garage, 3 months worth of garbage tossed into the back yard, an gargantuan sattellite dish (non-operating), seven broken chicken coops, various rusted piles of metal, etc. Then they had the nerve to tell me I have to fix their fence! My actual plan is to move my fence line closer to my house so I can put a 6' fence up the side to block off the view.

Here's the other kicker. My neighbor directly across from me is a "Mrs. Kravitz" type who tells me wayyyyy more than I ever wanted to know about my neighbors. I avoid her like the plague. One day while snooping around she saw that the white trash neighbors next door had a pit bull on a 2 foot leash tied up in the pile of trash and called the authorities. I give her "props" for that. "Mrs. Kravitz" honestly believes that the people that live there are incestuous, the father son and daughter all live together, father in his 80's, kids in their 40's but the daughter has 2 kids and she swears she's never seen her leave the house or seen a man enter. I hate to think of what she tells people about me.

I saved you from showing you pictures of the front yard. Inevitable broken down vehicles, more rusty junk and trash, 4 feet of weeds, hanging trim, etc. They seem to park a new broken down vehicle in front of my house every month until the city finally tows it away.

Good times!