good fences, good neighbors,,, Kinda,,,

Every time, EVERY TIME, we put up a privacy fence, its due to some psycho next door neighbor,,,  EVERY TIME.     

Today’s was no different.  The owner of the property warned us of the situation, walked us through the property lines and where he wants the fence, gave a little backstory as well.    Honestly, dood is being GENEROUS to his rotten neighbor, giving them several thousand square feet of HIS property.   I say that because, even though the county surveyor marked the corners, the fence is going to be considered the new Demarcation lines later down the road.   It is what it is, and later, will need resolved in a court of law in some property dispute.   Right now, its to appease NUTZOZ,,,,

so we are popping holes in the ground, setting posts for the boards we will put in after the concrete cures up (Muhnday? maybe,,,) and here comes psycho neighbor (after she spent 15 minutes taking pictures from her porch)

AND THE DUMB BUNNY TRIES TO PULL A 4X4 POST OUT OF THE GROUND WHILE HOLLERIN’ AT US,,,,  

I tried the ‘be nice’ approach, Ma’am’s and pointing out the surveyor marks, one of which is a federal benchmark point. (you know ’em: big brass ‘coin’ with long/lat/elevation coordinates and date)  NOPES,,, krazee started cussing at me and resorting to names I won’t publish here, and

DIO FIRED UP,,,,   “Call the police, NOW! and get your fat ass back on that porch.  WE WILL STOP HERE AND WAIT FOR THE COP TO TELL YOU TO TAKE A FUCKIN’ HIKE.”    in my best impression of a polite Drill Instructor.

And she Paled,,, ran back to her house, and came out 5 minutes later with some paperwork in hand, jumped in her car and took off.   I assumed she was headed to the courthouse to argue her point there.  

and about 10 minutes later, the Sheriff shows up, but not because she called, but the homeowner we are working for HAD.   The sheriff walked around with us, asked me about the confrontation, watched the vid the homeowner had of it (he has dozens of cameras placed around the house, all recording on motion detection) and said ‘Carry on”,,,,,

Later, Burnout asked me “why are people like her, like that?”

I could only answer “Envy.  Sometimes someone is so jealous of what someone else has, the only outlet is unbridled anger,,,”   See, the problem child in this picture DOES NOT EVEN OWN THE HOUSE,,, She is living there waiting for her father to die so she can inherit it,,,  Said father has been sent to the Nursing Home, instead of her taking care of him.   Some people have no love of the parents that brought them up, no love of themselves, so how can one expect them to love anything else,  let alone respect other peoples things; they can only covet, and when thier longing is twarted, they break in sharp ways, usually in anger,,,   but it can go full violent sometimes too.  This problem child is on that edge and needs corrected or someone is going to get hurt.  And I did say as much to the client and he agreed with me.

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kayak race tomorrow, my bracket is slotted for 10:15am start.   Depending on river current, its about a 2 hour race, give or take,,, (take, paddle faster, dammit!!!)   I’ll update more after the fact, and maybe have some before after pics for y’all.   Not during since I need to paddlepaddlepaddle the whole thing.  I love this river we are racing on,,, one of the prettier ones I have been on, and CLEAN, oh lord, so clean.   usually rivers around here tend to be murky; even after a week of clear weather.    But this one is clear enough, I could identify fish 5′ down.   Beautiful river.

wish me luck,  even though I have stated it many times, I am not in it for the win, just having some fun.   Not that I won’t give it my all, just that I know I am not in the shape of the serious racers; far from it,,,,

Keep on livin’