Community Chat

[RedTop]

Neighbor boys in the trashy trailer have removed most of their bagged trash, but have added 3 more old cars on the lot.   Their mailbox has been hit again and barely meets qualifications of a mailbox now.  Their front porch is still lying on the ground right where it collapsed from rot last year.   

Neighbor up the road has for sale signs on his property, again.  I've lived my entire life here and am as familiar with that property as I am my own, and there's gross exaggeration in that realtors ad!  

I saw a groundhog family today; dad, mom, and baby!  In my 66 years here, I don't believe I've ever seen an entire family of these animals together before, away from their den.  One of teacher daughters guinea pigs is bigger than the baby groundhog I saw today!   

[Etoile308]

@PickyPicky3, wouldn't it a hoot if the hunky guy was really an undercover police officer?

[Wsmom]

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@Etoile308 wrote:

@PickyPicky3, wouldn't it a hoot if the hunky guy was really an undercover police officer?

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He could very well be. 

Having worked in the courts if we had some in the audience who were going to be witnesses you would never have known they were officers.  

[Desertdi]

I haven't actually SEEN my next-door neighbors in Y E A R S.....   Don't even know their names.     This neighborhood was built when 6-foot cement yard walls were popular.   No windows visible from the street....people come and go through the garage doors (in cars with tinted windows.)    And this is NOT some "exclusive" place....just the way it was built........

[haddon9]

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@proudlyfromNJ wrote:

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

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Same here....it's ben a very rainy season so everything is very green and growing fast!

[Imaoldhippie]

My brother and me own property in Ohio near where I am from.  Deed is registered in both our names.  My brother lived there.  He passed away 16 months go.  He was disabled and an alcoholic and on Medicaid.  When he died the state of Ohio put a claim on his half of the property.  I had to buy back his half from the State.  I am up here to sign the final papers Monday.  This legal mumbo jumbo has taken the full 16 months to complete.

My son, DIL and grandkids live near here so I wanted to keep the place for us to spend some of the summers up here.

We are in the process of cleaning the place up and painting, etc.

So we are whats happening in the neighborhood.

[AuntG]

This is such a fun thread. I'd love to see it go on all summer long. So many diverse comments; from seeing people living in their cars to high end construction projects. I'm seeing a lot of yard work being done, quite a few home improvement trucks, and many people walking with dogs and children. We've seen neighbors who sit on lawn chairs in their garage and watch everything that goes on. They even have a police scanner nearby so nothing gets missed! I'm glad all the houses in our development are well maintained, but I'm sure the lady across the street has OCD because she is constantly picking stuff off the ground. It could be a twig, corn husk from a farm field, a piece of mulch or a few peanut shells from the family that feeds squirrels. 

[goldensrbest]

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@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.

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Wow ,cows in your yard, what they leave  ,does not smell good!!!

[Spurt]

Nothing here except community mailbox break ins ---they installed extra security gates but that didnt help, its funny because its always just one side of the mailbox---I think it has do to with an ex-roomate/partner/spouse that no longer has a mailbox key keeps trying to get their mail or maybe some else is going on JMHO----Thankfully my side where my box is located everything seems in tact and in order and matches up with my Informed Delivery notice on USPS.....Those people that were impacted have to go to the Post Office until this is all repaired.....

But this is an issue all over the city and has been on the local news and subdivisions are complaining about the break ins.......

[ciao_bella]

 Sorry if this is a a bit long, but I have to give you a visual of what's going on in words. 

I have a corner house with only three streets of homes in the immediate area on my side of the highway.  There's a main highway that runs in front of my house both north and south with a large, long grassy island/knowll that separates the north and south bound lanes. Across the furthest grassy island/knowll from my house are more homes.  My 65 year old cousin lives in the first corner house on that side of the highway.  We've never been super close but always friendly.  The last few years since I've retired and the pandemic arrived, she found that I was on FB.  So, she started messaging me.  First, just hellos and talks about the weather.  Now it's messages more often but not out of control.  

I never noticed until now, how nosy she really is.  She must have binoculars to see all that distance across two highways and a large grassy island what going on at my house.  She'll say, I see you were out early today and your car wasn't back in the driveway until noon,  or don't know if you know but you have packages delivered on your front porch.   The other day she said, I saw a man (and she described what he looked like)  on your porch ringing your doorbell.  It was my son's friend looking for him to go fishing.)   I brought it up to her that she's always watching what's going on at my house.  And her comment was, I can see your house directly from my kitchen window which is right above the sink and I spend a lot of time in the kitchen.  Due to the far distance between my house and hers, the only way she can see packages on my porch or describe what a person looks like who is ringing the doorbell at my front door is if she uses binoculars!  

So, ladies, it's not just nosy neighbors across from you.  I have one very nosy 65 year old cousin with time on her hands who watches what's going on at my house.   My son sort of laughs it off and says, no need for a Ring Doorbell or ADT with cousin Debbie watching!.