Barry, A row or even better, a scattering of lots of medium sized rocks will stop a lawn mower on a septic field. If you can't put up a fence, then a scattering of rocks along a property line might remind them of the lot line. Warn them, and then call the cops if they don't stop.
PJ On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Lee Frelich <[email protected]> wrote: > > Barry: > > Sounds familiar. I have had neighbors get rid of the 'weeds' in > wildflower gardens, and they were so proud of the favor they had done by > neatening up the place. Whether to kill, sue, or use the situation as a > teachable moment depends on the type of neighbor. > > Lee > > Barry Caselli wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
