Monday we came home to find that 4 of the big, beautiful trees in the neighbor's front yard were no longer standing upright. Our neighbor had told us that he was planning on cutting down all his big trees to protect his house (an ugly house at that), so it wasn't a complete surprise to us when we came home Monday...
However, when we got home on Tuesday all the other big trees were down in the back yard too! These were not sickly or dead trees either! They were beautiful, healthy ones. I counted 100 rings on one of the medium sized trees.
So we've been mourning the loss of these beautiful trees (the only redeeming factor of their yard), as well as the drop in our property value from the whole proximity factor. *sniff, sniff*
As a memorial to the fallen trees we are going to plant a wall of trees along our property line between our yard and theirs.
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Also this week I confronted the new neighbors on the other side of us about our fence. Remember them? Well, looooooong story short: It's been 7+ weeks since they had agreed to put up a fence around the part of our yard that they intentionally bulldozed. They've done nothing except plant some very small Emerald Green Thujas, even though they had originally agreed to put up a 6ft tall fence. They gave me every excuse in the book why they didn't or couldn't put up a fence, and numerous reasons why they decided to clear out our woods in the first place... They even tried to convince me that I can't install a fence even if it's on my property... HA! :)So after a lengthy heated argument about boundaries and property rights, we started driving metal fence posts into the ground (on our side of the property line) and will eventually finish it up with a nice roll of chain-link fencing from the original dog & goat pen.
Stick around to see how this one turns out... :)
UPDATE: We put up a fence!
- Read our comments below to see why this is such a "big deal" to us.
