I’ve never understood the whole HOA thing. Good neighbors are good neighbors even if they have big dogs and rusty pickups and bad neighbors are bad neighbors even if they have clean yards and BMWs.
Yeah, I don’t really want a steer bleeding out in my neighbor’s driveway, but a good neighbor will grill a couple porterhouses and open a couple good beers in exchange for the inconvenience.
- Yeah, I don’t really want a steer bleeding out in my neighbor’s driveway, but a good neighbor will grill a couple porterhouses and open a couple good beers in exchange for the inconvenience.
Just out of curiosity, how would a cow bleeding out in your neighbor’s driveway inconvinience you?
Well whenever we used to see someone butchering up a cow or deer, we would stop by to see if they needed any help. Usually a cookout would follow the completion of the task.
I agree. A good neighbor will let you use his Bobcat to remove brush, even help you burn it. But a HOA won’t let you keep a tractor, or even some brush, let alone burn it.
Yes, I certainly understand, for some their home is a status symbol, kind of like their automobile(s). And I can understand that, they paid good hard earned money for it. But butchering a steer is a one time thing for quite awhile, and again, if you don’t want to see it, don’t look.
The best neighbor I ever had, for some reason felt the need to display their prior wealth out in their yard. Old appliances and fixtures everywhere...but if he saw me out mending fence by myself, he would always come lend a hand. And his wife, who knew I commuted 110 miles RT to work and had to leave home at the buttcrack of dawn, would meet my kids at the school bus stop every morning with a breakfast burrito made with fresh tortillas and goodies.
On the weekend, I would deliver them a basket of fresh bread, and some of my mother’s best recipe baked goods and a big container of bebidas de frutas. And each spring I would deliver them containers of new bloomers out of my greenhouse that we would set around on the old appliances and in the fixtures and make the yard a thing beauty, lol.
You are right, good neighborship is more to me than the surface perfection.