Category Archives: Home improvements

Home improvements, Life, Nature, Outdoors

No Trees Now – Just Sawdust and Ruts

Finally have my backyard close to normal – just in time for all the leaves that are falling to need raking. The bitch next door was stupid enough to pay that tree guy the entire amount of his bill before he was done. He must be some kind of con artist. He told her that his big chain saw broke on the job he was doing for her and that the only way he could finish was for her to give him some money for him to go buy a new one. So she gave him the cash and he stayed gone for another week or two.

Yesterday he showed up in his green pickup truck with a helper and the two of them worked in her backyard and my backyard all day. He cut up and pulled the tree out of my yard but left piles sawdust on the ground. And the truck made big ruts in the side yard. When I came outside to talk to him, he immediately apologized for the mess and explained everything. He made his helper come over with a shovel and spread dirt into the ruts, then stomped on them to pack down the dirt and mud. It still looks a little rough because of the bare patches, but I guess in the spring the grass will grow back over the tracks and no one will notice so much.

Home improvements, Legal, Life, Nature

Trees Still in My Yard

OK – this is really getting old. The bitch next door has not talked to me one time about this fucking mess in my back yard. The guy she hired to cut down her trees cut them so they fell in my yard. He cut up some of them to haul them away, but left most of it still laying in my yard. He never came back to finish cutting them up. It’s not like I want to go out there with a chain saw and cut up her fucking trees.

I don’t even know what kind of crime this is – having someone elses trees in my yard is what? Littering? What the fuck am I am supposed to do to get these trees gone?

Home improvements, Legal, Life, Nature

My Neighbor is a Bitch

That old biddy who lives next door is a real pain in my ass lately. First of all, she has a lot of big trees in her back yard like everyone in this neighborhood and they keep falling during storms. She’s had 3 fall on her house and cause a lot of damage over the years, but she can’t afford to get them cut down. So she waits until they fall on her house and then the insurance company has to pay for the tree removal and the house repairs – after a $500 deductible. So she has already spent $1,500 on insurance deductibles and risked her life with having trees fall on her house – the back part that is her bedroom and bathroom.

So, she finally gets some redneck lowlife to come last week to cut down a couple of the trees that worry her the most. I have no idea what bargain rate she thought she was getting. This asshole cut down two of them and made a huge mess in MY backyard. The trees fell into my yard and now he is back there cutting on the fallen trees with a chain saw. So there is sawdust all over the yard, and when he backed his truck down to load it up with the wood, it got stuck in the mud and made huge ruts in my grass all over the back yard and the side yard. And when he left with that first load, he left three quarters of the huge logs in my yard and never came back to finish the job.

I finally went over to knock on her door and find out what the fuck is going on with her trees in my yard. She didn’t even answer the door. I know the bitch is home – I saw her drive up and park in the garage. MAYBE she was in the bathroom and couldn’t come to the door. But I think she saw it was me through the window and just didn’t want to talk to me about the problem.

Home improvements, Legal, Life, News, Outdoors

Installed New Motion Sensor Lights

My neighbors have been all upset these past couple of weeks. Seems some kids or young adults with nothing better to do have been cruising our street at night and vandalizing cars, mailboxes and yards. So far none of them have been stupid enough to try to actually break into a house or spray paint one of the houses. But you can bet that if these fuckers are not caught and stopped at this level of of crime, that they will get bolder and start doing even more serious damage.

That’s the problem with criminals. People want to be merciful and give them – especially kids – a second chance. But that doesn’t work. You have to do something to get their attention and make them not want to do it again. Just putting the little fuckers on probation accomplishes nothing other than keeping courts busy and lawyers rich.

With all the shit going on around here, I decided to install new motion sensor lighting around my house. I put two lights at the front door, one at the back door, two over the garage and also one on each of the four corners of the house. They can come on by use of a switch in the hallway, or I can set them to only come on when something moves within 10-15 feet of the house. I went ahead and set them to be very sensitive to even small animals. I would rather have the lights come on a few times unnecessarily because of a raccoon or a fox, than to have them miss showing some ghetto thug cutting across my yard or trying to bust out a window.

Business, Home improvements, Local

Front Loader

Last time I had to use the laundromat, it seems to me that all the washers in that place were front loading machines. It didn’t used to be that way. I don’t know why they would all e front loaders unless they are bigger capacity. Or maybe they use less water? I don’t think they are any faster or better at cleaning clothes, but there must be a reason they got switched out. I’m sure it has to do with money for someone along the line.