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In My Neighborhood.......

PickyPicky3 — Fri, 13 May 2022 10:51:42 GMT

***There's a really hunky homeless guy. Well, I don't know if he's homeless. About 30, in great physical shape, shoulder-length brown curly hair. He belongs on the cover of a bodice-ripper romance novel.

Sometimes he's clean; sometimes not. He always carries a garbage bag. And sometimes, like today, I see him being detained by police.

Mental illness? Drug addict? Both? Would his life be different if he was a 30-year-old stunning woman?

***One business in my neighborhood has its open wifi set so high and wide if your phone is set on wifi you can download 30 e-mails in ten seconds. Sometimes I detour to do just that.

What's up in your neighborhood?

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SilleeMee — Thu, 12 May 2022 23:55:10 GMT

I see people living in cars and some in motor homes/camping trailers parked along some residential roads. Some people can't afford rent or are waiting for vacancies. Housing here is an issue on many levels. It's creating problems like homelessness and crime.

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Mz iMac — Thu, 12 May 2022 23:59:22 GMT

@PickyPicky3 WOW!!!! that is some statement. Not ALL homeless people are mentally ill and/or drug addicts, carry garbage bags either or get stopped by the police.

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PickyPicky3 — Fri, 13 May 2022 00:06:47 GMT

@Mz iMac I'm not stereotyping about homelessness. I am describing one unique guy who apparently has both assets and deficits in his life. Can't help noticing him.

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Mom2Dogs — Fri, 13 May 2022 00:13:18 GMT

My neighbors across the street sit in their driveway...starting at roughly 6 am..off and on all day during the warm months...yes, I know this is not a crime but they watch everything that goes on in the neighborhood..I feel like I am in a fishbowl.

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CrazyDaisy — Fri, 13 May 2022 00:15:40 GMT

Was very happy my crazy neighbor was moving. Daughter's family came and packed up a uhaul. Found out the next day the lady would be living out of her van at a campgrounds. Not sure what her daughter was doing with all her stuff, but she left her mother who is diabetic, using oxygen and a walker homeless. Her daughter must be crazier than her.

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deepwaterdotter — Fri, 13 May 2022 00:18:22 GMT

I noticed that the family across the street took the cover off of their pool today.

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CrazyKittyLvr2 — Fri, 13 May 2022 00:26:32 GMT

Nothing unusual, our neighbor's cows got out.......again and are grazing in our yard.

One was right out the LR window and has Petunia all twitterpatted.

She was sitting on the windowsill when it mooed. She has never seen a cow that close.

2 weeks ago I had about 13 come through the yard as I was going down the driveway. I stopped and waited. There were cows, several large calves and the bull.

P.S., he doesn't fix his fences.

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rockygems123 — Fri, 13 May 2022 00:41:36 GMT

@SilleeMee

We had a 2-day trip from metro Denver to Pueblo, Florence and Colorado Springs a couple days ago and was surprised at the number of homeless tents. Had no idea there were so many, it was heartbreaking.

There are plenty of homeless in downtown Denver, don't see it much in the southwest Denver suburbs where we are. Just car and catalytic converter thefts out here. All pretty shocking.

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proudlyfromNJ — Fri, 13 May 2022 00:45:10 GMT

Nothing happening in my neighborhood as usual. Only sounds of lawn companies here in the summer. That’s it.

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hckynutjohn — Fri, 13 May 2022 00:52:01 GMT

@PickyPicky3

Nothing. Our neighbors are not close, in proximity or otherwise.

hckynut

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Love my grandkids — Fri, 13 May 2022 01:06:29 GMT

@Mom2Dogs Just for the heck of it I would wave and yell hello every time I saw them.

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Desert Lily — Fri, 13 May 2022 01:09:18 GMT

Construction, construction, and construction dust. Bulldozers, pickup trucks, cement trucks, and people working very hard. I just moved into a brand new development with lots of building going on.

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KKJ — Fri, 13 May 2022 01:19:33 GMT

@CrazyKittyLvr2 wrote:
Nothing unusual, our neighbor's cows got out.......again and are grazing in our yard.

One was right out the LR window and has Petunia all twitterpatted.
She was sitting on the windowsill when it mooed. She has never seen a cow that close.

2 weeks ago I had about 13 come through the yard as I was going down the driveway. I stopped and waited. There were cows, several large calves and the bull.

P.S., he doesn't fix his fences.

We've had this happen too with neighbors' cows getting out, and then having all the "cow pies" all over our yard!

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homedecor1 — Fri, 13 May 2022 01:25:38 GMT

@Mom2Dogs wrote:
My neighbors across the street sit in their driveway...starting at roughly 6 am..off and on all day during the warm months...yes, I know this is not a crime but they watch everything that goes on in the neighborhood..I feel like I am in a fishbowl.

@Mom2Dogs

you must live near me!!! I never knew that my one neighbor "watches" all day long. Recently, we were at a function & I said "I go crazy being home" she stated "you're never home I see your car in & out a lot".

Then, of course, there's another group who sits outside from 8am til dinner time..they watch & gossip all day...

like you I feel like I can't even go outside (front yard) even to get mail when "all eyes on me!"...yup a fishbowl for sure. (Somedays I do wave😉).

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occasionalrain — Fri, 13 May 2022 01:26:05 GMT

I have neighbors who keep building onto their house. They've added an addition, another garage, a patio out back, and landscaping. Now there's framing beside the added garage. What they've spent has cost more than the value of the original house and they haven't much, if any,

yard area left.

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FlyersGirl — Fri, 13 May 2022 01:29:29 GMT

Spring/warm weather brings just about everyone out in my neighborhood. Neighbors are cleaning up/mowing lawns/planting. The kids are out on their bikes and skateboards. Young Moms and Dads out walking with their children in strollers and wagons. The ice cream man drives down my street around 3:30pm every day. Neighbors across the street getting a new front porch. And I enjoy taking it all in as I sit in one of my rockers on my porch. I love my neighborhood. ❤

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Sage04 — Fri, 13 May 2022 02:43:43 GMT

@CrazyKittyLvr2 wrote:
Nothing unusual, our neighbor's cows got out.......again and are grazing in our yard.

One was right out the LR window and has Petunia all twitterpatted.
She was sitting on the windowsill when it mooed. She has never seen a cow that close.

2 weeks ago I had about 13 come through the yard as I was going down the driveway. I stopped and waited. There were cows, several large calves and the bull.

P.S., he doesn't fix his fences.

@CrazyKittyLvr2 That is still going on? I thought I heard that story before but didn't recognize your name until you mentioned Petunia. Hope she doesn't start mooing too.

Isn't there anything that could be done?

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Sage04 — Fri, 13 May 2022 02:47:51 GMT

@homedecor1 wrote:
@Mom2Dogs wrote:
My neighbors across the street sit in their driveway...starting at roughly 6 am..off and on all day during the warm months...yes, I know this is not a crime but they watch everything that goes on in the neighborhood..I feel like I am in a fishbowl.
@Mom2Dogs

you must live near me!!! I never knew that my one neighbor "watches" all day long. Recently, we were at a function & I said "I go crazy being home" she stated "you're never home I see your car in & out a lot".

Then, of course, there's another group who sits outside from 8am til dinner time..they watch & gossip all day...

like you I feel like I can't even go outside (front yard) even to get mail when "all eyes on me!"...yup a fishbowl for sure. (Somedays I do wave😉).

@Mom2Dogs and @homedecor1 you might not need your security system. They are just guarding the neighborhood.

I know I wouldn't like it.

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cindyNC — Fri, 13 May 2022 02:50:01 GMT

@homedecor1 Neighbors in my BF's neighborhood are like that. They all gossip about one another. One weekend, a few years prior to my moving in, I pulled in with a bunch of boxes in my SUV. The one across the street told everyone I was moving in since she saw boxes...................our office was relocating and I had boxes of office supplies to donate to the battered women's shelter in the area.

I rarely go out of the house for the same reason that you do. Fishbowl.