This evening we made a quick trip to Lowes and bought some small "one-by's" (to cut into wooden stakes) and 250 feet of fluorescent pink string. We also bought 4 Variegated Chinese Privet plants that were on sale - 50% off. Woohoo! We plan to plant those in front of the fence after it gets put up.
We then came home and Er!c cut the boards into a bundle of wooden stakes. Armed with hammers, stakes, string and spraypaint, we walked down to OUR 15' x 25' corner of the yard and started running the plumb line from one surveyor's marker to the next, keeping it as straight as possible through the bushes. Then we pounded the stakes into the ground about every 5 feet and spraypainted them hot pink!
We were hoping the neighbors would show up again so that we could tell them about our plans for the fence, but they never showed up... I hope they don't go ahead and buy all the plants & trees before we tell them that we are putting in a fence... At least we now have our boundaries well-defined, so hopefully if they do plant trees they will plant them on their side of the line.Anyway, here are some more photos of the destruction...
Looking down at the yard, standing on the dumpster
Looking straight into OUR yard from the cul de sac
With the shovel as reference you can see how far into our yard they went
This is the view from their livingroom window
Behind their house looking into our yard
He came right up to our chain link fence (15 ft inside our yard)
More like what it use to look like --- What it looks like now...............
I suppose it could be worse. This family had their home completely demolished and cleared away without any notice.
