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We try to keep the peace with our neighbors and help each other out when the need arises. All garden surplus goes to the neighbors. I walk the street (nice and quiet with no thru traffic) a few times a week to get my 5 miles/10,000 steps in and stop and chat with folks. A guy down at the end of one of the cul de sacs sells firewood and always has a stack of logs in his front yard. I spotted some nice cherry in the pile yesterday and he offered me a deal. One of the other neighbors has a beautiful Fuyu persimmon in his front yard loaded with fruit and I stopped to see if he would part with some and found out that his wife is Korean and loves the fruit. We got to compared notes on kimchi and kkakdugi since I just made a big batch of each.
The most common problem is barking or loose dogs. A retired county sheriff keeps a kennel of coon dogs on a lot adjacent to our street and for years they have raised heck at the slightest thing, day or night. The nearest neighbors have filed multiple noise complaints and the county has done nothing. Being a retired sheriff has its perks.
There are 53 houses on our street and a lot of us are retired. As the retired folks downsize or move to Florida some of the new residents bring problems. One of the new couples (both military) had an agressive dog that got loose every other day and would wander the neighborhood growling at people. The nearest neighbors have coordinated and flooded animal control with multiple complaints over a several month period with visits/warnings by animal control to no avail. He chased my daughter as she was getting into her car recently and scared the heck out of me one night when I was taking out the garbage. Last week the animal control team paid yet another visit and there was a big hubbub in the front yard with a lot of bad and insulting words said loudly by the owner, who said he had had enough and picked the dog up and put it into the animal control truck himself. Told them to keep the dog.
The most common problem is barking or loose dogs. A retired county sheriff keeps a kennel of coon dogs on a lot adjacent to our street and for years they have raised heck at the slightest thing, day or night. The nearest neighbors have filed multiple noise complaints and the county has done nothing. Being a retired sheriff has its perks.
There are 53 houses on our street and a lot of us are retired. As the retired folks downsize or move to Florida some of the new residents bring problems. One of the new couples (both military) had an agressive dog that got loose every other day and would wander the neighborhood growling at people. The nearest neighbors have coordinated and flooded animal control with multiple complaints over a several month period with visits/warnings by animal control to no avail. He chased my daughter as she was getting into her car recently and scared the heck out of me one night when I was taking out the garbage. Last week the animal control team paid yet another visit and there was a big hubbub in the front yard with a lot of bad and insulting words said loudly by the owner, who said he had had enough and picked the dog up and put it into the animal control truck himself. Told them to keep the dog.