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Bay, I tend to blame the behavior not the people. These are people whose behaviors show they choose to be stupid.
At first I thought they were good people who had made an innocent and understandable mistake, but any attempts to discuss the matter were wasted on my part. Then I thought perhaps they were merely ignorant. A long conversation -- and some of my paperwork -- between the neighbors and ourselves would clarify their misconceptions and all would be well. However, I found conversations impossible. Their vocabulary was limited to crass words at decibels that my ears found hurtful.
Finally, I wrongly presumed that a court decision would impress in their minds that the breadth of their property did not include what was outside the designations in their deed. That was not to be. The sheriff was called twice after the judge "settled" the dispute. I've known where the property line was for 40 years -- being one of the original two families that purchased a half of the 60 acre farm -- and they refused to alter their minds to align with the orders of the court. I knew I was working on my own land while they were sure enough I was trespassing to call the authorities. Of course, they couldn't prove I was on their land because I wasn't.
Now I know my neighbors to be terminally bull-headed and intentionally stupid by default. I don't wish them ill, but I may do my part to make their lives on their property as miserable for a few years as they have made mine since 2012 by selective and careful use of that part of my land bordering their yard. That includes the pigs, roosters, Larisa's fertilizer mixture, a solid addition to the bottom of the fencing (so pigs don't get out) that will also hold back drainage from their property to my gully, and possibly a small family of Guinea fowl if I can keep them close and safe.
No, Bay, I don't begrudge them air, water, and the other necessities. I actually have no animus toward them. I suspect the guy next door is living in his own h*ll with the woman he married and feel rather sorry for him. No animus. I just want them out of our lives for the next 20 years as they were for the first 16 years they were neighbors.
At first I thought they were good people who had made an innocent and understandable mistake, but any attempts to discuss the matter were wasted on my part. Then I thought perhaps they were merely ignorant. A long conversation -- and some of my paperwork -- between the neighbors and ourselves would clarify their misconceptions and all would be well. However, I found conversations impossible. Their vocabulary was limited to crass words at decibels that my ears found hurtful.
Finally, I wrongly presumed that a court decision would impress in their minds that the breadth of their property did not include what was outside the designations in their deed. That was not to be. The sheriff was called twice after the judge "settled" the dispute. I've known where the property line was for 40 years -- being one of the original two families that purchased a half of the 60 acre farm -- and they refused to alter their minds to align with the orders of the court. I knew I was working on my own land while they were sure enough I was trespassing to call the authorities. Of course, they couldn't prove I was on their land because I wasn't.
Now I know my neighbors to be terminally bull-headed and intentionally stupid by default. I don't wish them ill, but I may do my part to make their lives on their property as miserable for a few years as they have made mine since 2012 by selective and careful use of that part of my land bordering their yard. That includes the pigs, roosters, Larisa's fertilizer mixture, a solid addition to the bottom of the fencing (so pigs don't get out) that will also hold back drainage from their property to my gully, and possibly a small family of Guinea fowl if I can keep them close and safe.
No, Bay, I don't begrudge them air, water, and the other necessities. I actually have no animus toward them. I suspect the guy next door is living in his own h*ll with the woman he married and feel rather sorry for him. No animus. I just want them out of our lives for the next 20 years as they were for the first 16 years they were neighbors.
