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[quote=Anonymous]I have great neighbors that we get along well with and see often. We back up to the W&OD trail. My neighbor's yard has several mature trees (that are now encroaching on our side yard) and because of these, they can't access the trail without going onto our grass. Which is sort of okay in dry weather. But it's been raining for a month now and we have a 100% clay mudslick in our backyard from them walking on our grass. We have zero grass left. It's about 3 ft wide x 8 ftand goes down to the trail. They have large dogs that need walked 4x a day which means they're trudging through our grass with huge boots on 8x a day. It sounds petty, but we've reseeded constantly, laid new sod there this spring and it's all gone. We can't get new grass to grow because of them. The yard is also not smooth anymore, they've worn a pretty deep path. And because of the steep slope of our backyard, they often fall while trying to get up the clay mudslick to get back to their house (meaning they dig their boots in to get up, making gashes in the clay).

We're big gardeners and have a pristine yard other than this awful mud. We debated putting up a fence but because their trees are now on our lawn, we really couldn't put a fence at the property line. We are going to terrace the back yard in a few years, eliminating all access to the W&OD on that side of our yard (stairs would be on the other side which isn't as steep). But we worry when we terrace that they'll walk across our entire backyard to get to the stairs.

Is there anything we can do and still be friendly with neighbors? We've debated putting a sign up saying not to walk on the grass when it's wet. [/quote]

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