Am I too pedantic?Neighbor shoving leaves into wooded area between our houses.

[Anonymous]

Even better, mow over your leaves and allow them to decompose and improve the soil your lawn is growing in. When you bag and throw away your grass cuttings and leaves, you are throwing away fantastic fertilizer.

[Anonymous]

OP, was it you that commented that the HOA owns the wooded area? If so, why aren't you talking to them about this? They should be maintaining the wooded area, as the owners of it. If the leaves should be picked up, they will do it. If the firewood is on HOA property, they will tell the owner to remove it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:3 pages of comments and no Rand Paul joke yet, come on people.

Is that why he got beat up? Putting leaves in the woods?

I wondered the same thing!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Persnickety may be the word you're looking for.

Anal retentive?

That's the word that comes to my mind when I read OP's post and responses.

[Anonymous]

I stop blowing my leaves into the woods when I started seeing snakes in the leaves. My kids kept playing in the woods. So I stopped that, and had my lawn guy haul them away. I put in a 7 foot high privacy fence to block my neighbors leaves blowing in my yard. My lawn guys have much leaves to deal with.

[Anonymous]

Don't worry about the wooded area if it's not your property. Really he shouldn't be putting stuff there but it doesn't sound horrible to me. It's not like he's putting sofas or trash out there.

[Anonymous]

It's a wooded area. It's where leaves belong.

Chill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please stop using the word pedantic.

Yeah, more interested in knowing why OP choose using this word?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would this upset you or not? Am I being too pedantic? Here is the picture. My house has a large backyard that is surrounded with a wooded area. It has very large trees around, but not so much as to be a forest, it is about 4,5 very tall trees deep. The wooded area is not mine or his property but a common area. He has no fence and I have no fence. The back of my house faces the back of his house, within seeing distance. Two other neighbors next to his house have fences. They do not shove their leaves into the common wooded area. My immediate two neighbors to sides of my house also do not push their leaves into the wooded area. My own lawn guy did the same last year and I was very unhappy that they just pushed the leaves into the wooded area. My lawn guy didn't even bother to push it deep in, just onto the edges of my property, results in many flowers and shrubs at the edges not being able to flower properly in the spring and summer. I paid him as I didn't specify exactly what is appropriate, but told him that leaves picking service is not required this year. The result is huge piles of leaves in the relatively small wooded area, I am talking mounds of leaves that easily spread onto my property with any wind. This particular neighbors also has stashed on the edge of the wooded area a tall and very long wall of firewood, that is in the common area. It looks bad and it forms a wall as tall as me (over 5 feet). The firewood is expanding each year. I don't like the mountains of leaves and firewood, I think it is not a nice thing to do with leaves or wood. Would this bother you or am I too pedantic? I am removing the pile of leaves this year that my lawn guy created last year, btw.

Yes, very rude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your neighbor saw what your lawn guy did last year and thought it was a great idea.

Maybe this year your neighbor will see you removing the leaves and get the point.

Nope, he is there right now showing more and more leaves in, while I was picking up the mess my lawn guy did. My pile was about a foot high, his is right now well over 4ft high.
Yes, I can see that my use of pedantic might be too much, sorry and yes I am maybe too bothered by this.

Over use of the word isn't the problem. It's your incorrect usage

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks for the previous pp replying. I think that is what is bothering me. It is too much. And it looks ugly. His house is not far into the wooded area, on the contrary, it is a corner house, where main road and entry to our subdivision starts. So kind of an L shaped, with the narrow wooded area ending at neighbors house and piles of leaves clearly seen from the main street. I guest I need to let go of my hang up about this, since unless I pick it up, it is only aggravates me. Yesterday during my walk with my dog, I passed by many houses that back onto the actual forest, and nobody had 4,5 feet piles of leaves at the very edge of the forest.

You need to find some real issues to twist your panties over. Seriously

[Anonymous]

The leaves in a wooded area wouldn't bother me. I assume that the trees in the wooded area are dropping their own leaves. Leaves on the ground is a given.

An ever-expanding stack of firewood that's been growing for years us another story. If it's for his personal use, then it belongs on his personal property. It sounds like the kind of thing that could become an obstacle in the shared area. It also sounds like a refuge for snakes and rodents.

[Anonymous]

I can't believe that things 'can't flower properly' after over wintering with leaves on them . I pile tons of leaves into my garden and over all of my flowers every year and the results are spectacular - I hardly ever fertilize anything but I have wonderful soil and beautiful flowers and bushes (and trees). We are talking strong, vibrant beautiful plants. The process of the leaves breaking down and fertilizing the soil and encouraging beneficial microbe growth is natural. Throwing out the leaves and then running to the hardware for fertilizer next season is not natural and it just enriches the 'Scotts' company or whoever and you are naive to buy into that whole thing,

I also mulch the leaves onto the lawn too. I would never willingly throw out a leaf, never. Do you think that people in the woods and forests show up to take away the leaves ?? Or do you think that in the forests that the leaves are left to naturally rot there every year? Dig up some of the soil in the woods sometime and you'll notice that it's amazingly rich and fertile.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The leaves in a wooded area wouldn't bother me. I assume that the trees in the wooded area are dropping their own leaves. Leaves on the ground is a given.

An ever-expanding stack of firewood that's been growing for years us another story. If it's for his personal use, then it belongs on his personal property. It sounds like the kind of thing that could become an obstacle in the shared area. It also sounds like a refuge for snakes and rodents.

Everything is a refuge for snakes and rodents - you will always have those.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Persnickety may be the word you're looking for.

[b]Anal retentive?[i]

That's the word that comes to my mind when I read OP's post and responses.

That's the phrase to describe the majority of Americans and their desire for antiseptic lawns around their homes. Lawn guy spraying poison everywhere and killing everything that is natural? Landscapers hauling away the leaves and getting out the gas blowers to rid the property of every last leaf? Che j.
Bringing your kids inside because 'natural things' like snakes were outside with them? The horrors! Check!