Barry, Talk to him. Maybe he doesn't know he is a idiot. They often don't.
Ed "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science." - Albert Einstein ----- Original Message ----- From: Barry Caselli To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 8:59 PM Subject: [ENTS] Re: Not again!!! I'm so mad I can't see straight. You make a lot of sense. I agree. I fail to understand why my dad, who is nearly penniless, is helping out someone who has enough money to buy his own house right now. I'm quite sure living in an office trailer is illegal, or at least against code. I found out that he does pay my dad something, but how much I don't know. But I'm growing quite tired of near strangers doing things to our trees, flower beds, etc., etc. --- On Thu, 8/20/09, Paul Jost <[email protected]> wrote: From: Paul Jost <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] Re: Not again!!! I'm so mad I can't see straight. To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, August 20, 2009, 1:24 PM Barry, This is a liability nightmare. This guy is a con man mooch. He is going to homestead your property and take it out from under your feet. If you don't kick him off with the sheriff by your side, he could injure himself intentionally on your property and then sue your dad for all he's got, including the property. When your dad and you are homeless and penniless, and he is living in your house, thank him for being so nice and for being afraid to stand up to this guy. If you think that I am paranoid, you are wrong. It has happened out here and makes the news every once in a while. Regards, Paul On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Barry Caselli <[email protected]> wrote: You know, what gets me about that septic field is, in the early 1990s I stopped mowing it. In a few years I started noticing some Fall-blooming wilflowers that I was not familiar with, plus some beautiful mature grass plants and some things like Dwarf Sumac. After buying a pine barrens field guide I started to figure out what all the flowers were. In the Fall, all this stuff was beautiful. Then suddenly one year my brother came over and mowed it all down. He doesn't even live here. He mowed it down while it was all in full bloom. Then a year later my brother's wife's brother came over and did the same thing! I was floored. Then finally people stopped messing with it and it grew back. Things were great until a few months ago when Dad allowed this guy to move his office trailer back there, behind the septic field. Now the guy is actually living in the office trailer. He was supposed to be in there only till he got his house built, on a piece of land about a mile away. Dad recently told me that the guy doesn't even own the land yet that he was supposed to buy. He's using Dad's electricity and water (washing his truck and watering sod that he put down in front of his trailer). Well I wasn't going to go into all the details, but I just did. Oh well. I went out at 5 am today to go to work and found that his Mexican had butchered all the trees along both sides of the driveway, all the way to the road (over 400 feet). It's unbelievable. From: Paul Jost <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] Re: Not again!!! I'm so mad I can't see straight. To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, August 20, 2009, 8:46 AM 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
