ENTS,
I'm am so angry that I can't stand it. Do you remember a few months ago I
posted about what various people have done to the property here over the years?
I had explained it all in detail in a Word document, as an attachment to my
post.
If you read that post and the document, then you will know some of what I'm
talking about now. Let me refresh your memory a little. There's a guy and his
wife living in an office trailer way back behind our house. I came home from
work today at 2:30 to find his Mexican power-washing the concrete next to the
garage where my mother parks her car every day. I didn't think too much of it.
But later I went outside again (maybe an hour ago) and found that he had ripped
out all the plants in one of my semi-wild perennial beds and put down mulch. He
also ripped out my soaker hose. The bed goes around a corner, but he only
messed with one side (for now). The soaker hose was in the part he didn't touch.
I looked down the driveway a bit and found that he had cut (improperly)
branches off a Pitch Pine and my Fringe Tree. In fact from the looks of things,
it appears that he's fixing to cut down my Fringe Tree completely. He cut
branches off the pine tree way too high up for the size and height of the tree,
besides cutting them improperly.
Now I'm afraid to go to work every day, for fear of what I might find when I
get home.
This has really got me pissed off.
My beds aren't exactly what you would call manicured, but they do contain
perennials that have spread naturally, and it has taken several years for them
to do it. I've been trying to get stuff to grow in these beds that doesn't
really need my help to survive (since we have naturally poor soil). The stuff
is doing quite well. I'm afraid I'll come home tomorrow or the next day and
find all my beds destroyed, similar to what has been done to the one he messed
with so far. It's really got me pissed off, especially considering that I dealt
with similar problems years ago, and it took a couple years for the beds to
recover.
If you follow an imaginary line beyond the end of our driveway, another couple
hundred feet further back, there's a small barn. To the right of it is the edge
of the woods. If you walk along there, you end up walking past the guy's office
trailer. You'll find that he has used some kind of heavy equipment, maybe a
backhoe, and literally ripped all the branches off the trees at the edge of the
woods, up to 7 or 8 feet up, so that he can pile his junk in there, for a
couple hundred feet. (I discovered this a couple months ago when I made my yard
video.)
As I said in my old post with the Word document attachment, he continues to mow
down our septic system leach field, as if it were his lawn. I never mowed it. I
kept it natural so that native wildflowers would grow, and they were beautiful.
It's now nothing but crab grass, which he scalps down every few weeks. It looks
like a horrible mess after he mows it. But the worst is what's being done to my
stuff. Apparently he's out at prayer meeting at his church right now, or
something. I hope he comes home so I can say something to him. I've been saying
for months on end (not outloud though) that he needs to go away, and get off
our property. My dad is too generous in letting near strangers come and use the
property. Then they get ideas in their heads and mess with things of which they
have no knowledge.
All right. End of rant. Sorry. But I had to tell someone.
Barry
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