Am I too pedantic?Neighbor shoving leaves into wooded area between our houses.
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Anonymous
| 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. |
Anonymous
| Please stop using the word pedantic. |
Anonymous
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It would bother me.
It's also the kind of thing my husband would do, particularly the wood pile. Some people just don't consider how their actions affect others. I need to tell him every year. I think you can complain to your neighbor about the leaves, since they can blow over onto your property. The wood pile, not so much, unless you can call the county and they can refer to a common usage law that makes it illegal? |
Anonymous
| Even the description of your problem is too much, OP. Relax a little. They're leaves on the edge of your property. |
Anonymous
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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. |
Anonymous
| Who owns the wooded area? Can you talk to your neighbor? Nicely? Tell him the leaves he puts there are spreading into your property |
Anonymous
| Why would your neighbor think you have a problem with this, since you did the same thing last year!? And don't say it was your lawn guy and not you -- it was your property and you didn't have him remove the leaves. |
Anonymous
Yeah, that word doesn't mean what OP thinks it means. But, you are being to something. |
Anonymous
| There's absolutely nothing wrong with doing that. You are SUPPOSED to do that - recycle leaves back to nature. You sound like a very painful person to have as a neighbor. |
Anonymous
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I don't think pedantic means what you think it means...
Also, in a couple of years, there is going to be a ton of ridiculously rich black soil underneath the layer of leaves in the wooded area. Go with your wheelbarrow and take some for your flower garden. That'll show your neighbor! |
Anonymous
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. |
Anonymous
This exactly. "I did something last year, and although I now claim it bothered me, I never remedied it then. Now that my neighbor is doing the same thing, I believe it is "not a nice thing" to do, even though I did the same thing and left it that way for the past year. Oh, and firewood - that's bad too." |
Anonymous
Ok, what does pedantic means? I am not a native English speaker, so I will correct my use. |
Anonymous
OMG, it isn't "too much," it's flat out incorrect. Buy a dictionary. |
Anonymous
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I live in the woods. OP does not she just has a 'wooded area'.
I would hire someone to pick up the leaves that my guy shoved back in there and pick up the neighbors as well. I understand the OP's concern. If leaves are snowed on before they are raked up, it kills all the grass. The wood pile issue I would save for another time. Get the leaf issue resolved first. Maybe your neighbor can put his leaves in a pile right before whomever you hire comes to pick them all up. Or maybe alternative hiring removal? |