[Corin Stormhands]

Ya know, if'n yer gonna have breakfast with the Saddle Club, yer gonna miss a lot of mini-dramas. Here's the short version.

1) Naybers complained about trees. We had trees taken out.

2) Naybers complained about water run-off (see trees, above)

3) Naybers built a berm to deal with the run-off. I didn't want to have a ditch on my side of the property. So I started planting stuff that would ~also~ deal with the run-off. It wasn't good enough.

4) They were about to build a ~bigger~ berm when I said I'd do the dry stream bed. I'm willing to go that far and they actually look kind of cool.

But, this is only a mutual project in ~their~ minds. His message the other day thru Jr. that he wanted to help was code for "why haven't you done this already?"

Thing is, previous nayber lady (Hyacinth) spent thousands of dollars having the yard landscaped to deal with the run-off. They've let it all grow up.

They mean well. But a large portion of their "problems" with run-off and other issues, are imagined.

I had other things to do this fall.

[HairOfTheDog]

Thanks for the recap of the nayber situation ;~D So many mini-dramas, so little time. Now I'm off to sit on my cell phone .

[Overtaxed]

Any chance you can get their property declared a wetland?

[SuziQ]

Looks like it'll be a cool dry-bed. Are you expecting there will be times when it won't be so 'dry'?