Another neighbor thread

[clanter]

I wished all of us had neighbor like ours, especially the one on our north side. Yesterday I got an email form them saying " We are thinking about new fence and would like your input. What would you like that would keep your livestock happy. Not sure what is best. maybe you want more privacy or wind barrier? Your input important! No rush. Just want happy neighbors! When you get a chance can you think about how you would like the fence line between our properties. We want the horses happy! Goats too! Our cost! "

We have been replacing common fences on our the perimeter of our property and had not gotten to the north fence (yet)

Their email just shows that not all neighbors are difficult

[2DogsFarm]

Those neighbors win the Not Horseowners Prize

My best neighbors are the 3rd (or more) generation horsemen that have the farmette (we’re all 5ac or less) kittycorner from me, across the road.
They’ve had Drafts, then Hackney Ponies, now back into Belgians. Putting together a 4.
Father & son (who I call my Faux Grandson ) are the Drivers, Mom does the show prep & 3 sisters (all now married w/kids) pitch in.
They’re also my hayguys & mow an L-shaped mini field on my acreage. They keep that hay, provide my supply from other fields they lease & my place stays looking civilized.
They store loaded wagons in my indoor, but arrange them so I have room to ride.
I get a daily call from FG, checking to see if I need anything. Cookies arrive from Mom when she bakes & at Thanksgiving I get a plate from their home-raised turkey.

Having good neighbors is a blessing

[lenapesadie]

Gotta love good neighbors!

[candyappy]

We have been blessed with some exceptional neighbors too over the years. Makes life a lot easier.

Lucky you @clanter if they are footing the bill on fencing??

[clanter]

@candyappy

if they are footing the bill on fencing

100%, their family has owned the place since it was first sub divided in the late 1940s, when the father was getting older we helped keeping an eye on him to remain, He had been an airline pilot like many of our neighbors , during WW2 he taught navigation to pilots then during the war was chief pilot for President Truman. Afterwards he flew for American he was " Grey Eagle #399". He often came over to photograph the horses as a hobby

His son who now owns the place was a captain for Northwest retiring then moved here after his dad’s passing,

[Foxglove]

I have good and great neighbors who are almost all Amish folks. The good Amish neighbor has 8 kids and has asked if I have work in the spring for them, to let him know (oh, YES!) He offered to come down and help my husband with stacking hay (rotator cuff surgery kept me from doing so). He has asked if we need him to spread gravel with his skid-loader as mud has been a problem (oh, again, BIG YES!). We help him out now and then when he has an emergency and need a ride (needed to pick up a heater for his duck barn when his failed --DH drove him about four miles down the road; when he broke his phone, I drove him to Wal-mart to get a new one: being on a remote farm with 8 kids and no phone isn’t safe, in my view). So he’s the GOOD neighbor —

The GREAT Amish neighbor does cool stuff for us --he put a new window in my horse trailer (I picked it up at the factory and he installed it in about 5 min --said he puts in 90+ a day at his job). Came over to see if he could help when DD had a reaction to some medication and we had to call the ambulance --offered to feed for us if we wanted to go with her. Kid just needed to be hydrated and given massive something to back off the reaction to what she took --so we stayed home). Brings over warm bread and cookies every time I take him someplace —and he doesn’t ask unless it is an emergency --most recent was when his wife went into labor and their planned ride couldn’t get there --and I did resist screaming, “But I don’t know ‘nothing’ 'bout birthing no babies!” as we drove her to the birthing center in the next town.

Both neighbors keep their fences up, their farms tidy, and their livestock well cared for. My GREAT Amish neighbor does sell breed and sell puppies --mini-Golden-Doodles. He has a beautiful kennel -heated floors and a/c. He cleans it twice a day (I can see his kennels from my barn) --he and his two boys go out almost every afternoon and play with the puppies. He only has a litter when the previous litter has sold. He brought over his certificate from the USDA that showed he had his kennel inspected. It totally frosts me when someone says “The Amish run puppy mills.” I am certain some do --BUT I am also certain that the number of ENGLISH who have puppy mills far exceed the Amish. His KENNEL is far nicer than any ENGLISH Kennel I’ve ever seen (well, maybe the one at the hunt club is nicer but we have 60 hounds --he only has three Golden females. Sweet dogs. Yes, if they were mine they’d be in my house, but then our hunt club never allows hounds in the club house.

Anyway --my English neighbors allow me to ride in their woods and on their land --that’s nice too. Good neighbors are wonderful!

[Grey623]

A couple of months ago my neighbors across the street installed lights over their garage. Bright, white, harsh lights pointed up and out, so the front of my house was lit up like daylight from twilight to morning. I had to move my furniture so I could sit without being blinded.

We are not a close neighborhood, and I think I know the kids’ names, but have only a waving acquaintance with the adults. I grumbled and muttered and ranted to my husband, who just shrugged, and though I anticipated an argument, resolved to knock on neighbor’s door if they didn’t see the problem on their own, and speak to them about it. As it happened, a few weeks ago we were at our mailboxes at the same time, while those lights were on, so I went over and talked to them and, lo and behold, last night I came home and … my house was dark again. They repointed them, and all is well.

It is nice to know we can still have calm, adult conversations sometimes in today’s world.

Grey

[Rnichols]

Y’all are lucky!!! My neighbor left me a voodoo doll that was so aggressive the bomb squad came out to investigate. This was in 2021 and I’m still pissed off about it lol

MEANWHILE the property I’d love to purchase one day (where my horses live) has lovely neighbors, so there is hope for me to have nice neighbors after all

[skydy]

[Sleipnir]

We NEED to hear the full story about the voodoo doll!

[Rnichols]

Oh boy, here it goes. Wish I still had the pictures but they’re on one of my dead (as in no longer functional) phones.

One day (December 23rd, 2017) my boyfriend walks out of the house to go to work. He comes back in with a shiny, silver antique looking cauldron that was half heartedly wrapped in loose paper with a card on it. “Someone gave us soup”, he says. Me, being the extremely suspicious and paranoid person that I am immediately is getting agitated he brought this random a$$ package into the house. The card said “to nick and Sofia” (neither of our names) and all it said inside was “Happy Holidays.” He takes the lid off the cauldron (honestly idk what else to call it that’s what it looked like!) and there is a black box inside as well as red liquid. The red liquid has a fragrant scent and had dried up flowers suspended in it — think like pouperi (I’m spelling this wrong but I hope you can sound it out LOL) in liquid. Outside of the black box are a bunch of extremely large SCREWS / NAILS WIRED TOGETHER and wired to the box. At this point I’m yelling at him to get this out of the house, but apparently when he’s curious he becomes hard of hearing. He then proceeds to OPEN THE LID of this wired together black box. Inside is another black box shaped like a coffin and surrounding the box is more nails / screws. Additionally there are black “cylinder like” objects surrounding the coffin. The cylinders have a photo taped to them and have wires all snared around the cylinder. Then, Inside the coffin is a pink plush doll (looks kinda like a pin cushion) that had a photo taped to the top of the doll. There were “X” through the eyes and pins shoved all throughout the doll. Needless to say at this point I’m horrified and he puts the lid on the cauldron takes the whole thing out and puts it in the garbage (lucky garbage man?). The whole thing is still in one piece though at this point.

So SO leaves to go to work and I’m just like WTF so of course I took pictures and post on FB. Nearly every comment was people telling me “that’s a !!!”. I’m like oh this is just freaking fantastic. So I call the police department and they come out to investigate. Tell the cop the story blah blah, he’s basically just rolling his eyes at me not taking me seriously. But then he goes to look at it In the garbage can and he takes the lid off and (I will NEVER forget this) goes “oh $h!t” and then proceeds to evacuate me and my daughter (3 at the time) out of the house, blocks off half the street and calls the sherif department to have the bomb squad out.

They took forever analyzing it. Come to find out, the cylinder looking items were candles. But because of the shape of them and the shrapnel surrounding the entire thing they thought it might be a pipe . Oh, and I got a better look at the photo she used (initially it was hard to see bc everything was kinda wet and she had printed it out from a computer to a piece of printer paper) it has been a profile photo on my FB. A FAMILY photo with me, my SO, daughter, horse and 2 dogs and she cut me out of the photo and that’s what she chose to use.

I have no “proof” it was her so the police couldn’t do anything, but I KNOW it was her. Those neighbors have not liked my family since my parents bought the house in 2001, as did the people next door (the house were new in 2001). She has an issue with my dogs (no idea WHY, she says they bark all day which they don’t bc I work from home and I’m literally here listening to them NOT barking), she even went as far to go around the neighborhoood trying to get the neighbors to sign a petition about them saying they were a nuisance. When that didn’t work she went to animal control and got 3 separate neighbors to file a complaint about me - however when AC investigated further they found the “complainers” were NOWHERE near my house , just in the general neighborhood (it’s a huge neighborhood), so they couldn’t possibly hear dogs barking. In any event, needless to say, I hate her LOL.

How is that for some Thursday night entertainment? PS I had a panic attack that landed me a spot in the ER just days later and I know it was triggered by this. Once I calmed down I showed the ER doc the photos and they were both horrified. I think it probably takes a lot to shock an ER doctor LOL.

eta - think it was actually 2017, not 2019 (or 2021). Wow, time flies lol. Feels like yesterday sometimes.

[Sleipnir]

Wow, that is all kinds of crazy! Sorry you had to go through that! Did the situation with this particular neighbour resolved in any positive way, or did you eventually move?

[Rnichols]

Oh no, she’s still right next door!

[Fiesta01]

My sympathy. So sorry you have to deal with this.