Tag Archives: yard

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.

Friends, Life, Local, Nature, Outdoors, Recreation

This Grass Grows Fast

We have had a lot of Spring rain, so between the rain, the grass seed I put down last month, and the warmer temps, my yard is growing grass like crazy. It needs to be cut at least once a week in normal weather, which usually burns an hour of my Saturday mornings. My grass could actually use a second, mid week cut to keep it from getting our of control.

I went ahead and cut the grass this morning around 8:00 and got it out of the way. I even bagged the clippings so that the lawn doesn’t have a problem with thatch. A quick shower, then I was off to my girl’s house to scoop her up and head over to the Lake. It was crowded as hell, and we barely got a place to park. In fact, there were so many fucking kids running around screaming and crying that we got sick of it and left earlier than planned.

Dropped her off at home to get changed and cleaned up, then we are heading downtown for some bar hopping and clubbing. That’s my weekend so far.

 

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.

Life, Nature, Outdoors, Shopping

Rabbits everywhere

Our yard has been filled up with rabbits the last few weeks and they have eaten almost everything that was growing that they could get a hold of out in the yard. We have decided to try and find a humane way to remove some of the critters and get them back to the lake where they belong. The critters have to cross a major road to get to our yard from the lake and I do not want to see them hit by cars on the road. We have looked into a rabbit trap to humanely catch and release them closer to the lake. Not harming the critters is a major point with us.

The best humane rabbit trap that we found was located on the web site for HaveaHart.com they have a lot of other different kinds of traps that will work for us in our battle to move the rabbits out of our yard. We have had several other “pets” this year including squirrels and deer in the yard but the rabbits have all of the others way out numbered this year at least. I think if we can move the rabbits the other critters will get the idea and hit the road themselves.