What's happening in your neighborhood?

[Centerpiece]

Rain.
One neighbor walks their German Shepherd without a leash. Good dog seems well-trained. We and other neighbors keep our distance.
Next door neighbor had her back yard cleared of shrubs and poison Ivy. 4 Guatemalans came over in galoshes and rain gear yesterday and made short work of it with machetes, hoes and shovels. Hard workers doing hard work.
City comes tomorrow to fetch the trash and recyclables. The mail ran today. No mail yesterday. Cookouts rained out.
That’s the news from Lake Woebegone.

 

[Patb78]

You can drag and drop the pictures into a post. Or click the "Insert Image" button above, between GIF and the smile face, and choose the location where the picture is stored one your computer.

It's even easier from a phone.

Thanks Tech I’ll try. There was a CSI truck at the scene. I told my wife I expected to Mark Harmon come walking up the street. She said if I did to call her. Evidently women think he’s hot.

 

[SnoopRob]

Nothing like this happens in my area other than the occasional accident at the intersection not too far from my house.

I'm not sure whether to be jealous or relieved.

 

[UNCatTech]

Did he have to still pay the tree company?

Yes, it was his fault. Who marks both the trees to keep and those to cut.

 

[LosPollosHermanos]

Yes you do, why else would you mow the lawn?

We don't have an HOA, but one time we went to Disney World for ten days in spring and when we got back I had a warning from the city that my grass was over 7 inches tall and the next tme it happened I would be fined $50. Then a couple weeks later I got a warning for not bringing my trash cans in from the curb a day after pickup. I think I know who the snitch is but I'm not positive. ETA: Point being, there is a reason to cut your grass other than caring what your house looks like. Fines.

 

[Zoo_View]

I’ve seen 5-6 black snakes or similar in the last week…..3 coyotes……one fox…….a bobcat……..30-40 deer (or the same 6-8 deer multiple times)……a male pileated woodpecker…..an Oriole…….red tailed hawk……red tailed hawk with a squirrel in its talons…..no police….no meth labs.

 

[UNCatTech]

We don't have an HOA, but one time we went to Disney World for ten days in spring and when we got back I had a warning from the city that my grass was over 7 inches tall and the next tme it happened I would be fined $50. Then a couple weeks later I got a warning for not bringing my trash cans in from the curb a day after pickup. I think I know who the snitch is but I'm not positive.

It's CF, he narked you out.

 

[UNCatTech]

I’ve seen 5-6 black snakes or similar in the last week…..3 coyotes……one fox…….a bobcat……..30-40 deer (or the same 6-8 deer multiple times)……a male pileated woodpecker…..an Oriole…….red tailed hawk……red tailed hawk with a squirrel in its talons…..no police….no meth labs.

Man, where do you live? In a zoo?

 

[mpaer]

I’ve seen 5-6 black snakes or similar in the last week…..3 coyotes……one fox…….a bobcat……..30-40 deer (or the same 6-8 deer multiple times)……a male pileated woodpecker…..an Oriole…….red tailed hawk……red tailed hawk with a squirrel in its talons…..no police….no meth labs.

Actually seeing a Bobcat-not on an animal camera-is something I have not seen. Pretty cool

 

[Patb78]

You can drag and drop the pictures into a post. Or click the "Insert Image" button above, between GIF and the smile face, and choose the location where the picture is stored one your computer.

It's even easier from a phone.

Tech, I’m just not very savvy when it comes to stuff like this. I would love to share the picture because it’s truly something out of a TV show.

 

[Zoo_View]

Man, where do you live? In a zoo?

SW Orange County real close to Cane Creek…….12+ acres that are part of hundreds of undeveloped acres of forested land, pastures, maybe 1/5 is active planted farm land……so, yes….a zoo.

 

[Patb78]

The neighborhood I lived in up until 2015 was pretty quite and peaceful.

There was this one house. Always well maintained, but you never saw anyone there. And a weird thing, they had a fence with no gate around the entire back yard.

So, one day we were walking by and notice the front door was open. We walked up to check and found that the front door had the markings of being broken into by a battering ram, like the police use. We went home and googled it and found out it was owned by a drug group and that the police had raided 15 homes in the area a few days earlier. They had the full hydroponics going on, even bypassed the electrical meter for power.

That house stayed vacant for over 2 years while the trial went on, then when the trial was over it was auctioned off.

Oh shit!

 

[gregh1]

tl;dr - on or about 630a today I watched SWAT entering a neighbor's house that rents to random people. The current group are - apparently - violent drug dealers. Will update when more is known.

You and Patb78 are neighbors!




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[NOVAHEEL13]

2330Q: Neighborhood is quiet...a little too quiet.

 

[farce©]

Tech, I’m just not very savvy when it comes to stuff like this. I would love to share the picture because it’s truly something out of a TV show.

Is the photo on your phone?

 

[doctor_octopus]

Actually seeing a Bobcat-not on an animal camera-is something I have not seen. Pretty cool

Not my neighborhood, but in alligator river national wildife refuge two weeks ago.

 

[aGDevil2k]

I don't live in a neighborhood anymore.. But the last one we lived in had some hilarious drama.. Cops were everywhere around this one house, and the two homeowners were outside screaming (two guys). Then one literally started throwing sex toys at the other... Right in the driveway


They broke up

 

[OldWHEEL]

Last February my sister in Houston ‘burbs got a letter from herHOA telling her to take the Christmas decorations from her front door…the decoration was a snowman (yes it had already reached 80 degrees there but seasonal does not equal Christmas). Meanwhile the He Is Risen signs in her neighbors’ yards are allowed to remain all year.

 

[tallheel95]

There's lots to like about my neighborhood -- many trees, near the greenway, generally kind neighbors. No pressure of trying to keep up with the Joneses because none of the Joneses are very fancy. However, I do live fairly close to public housing. Unfortunately what that has meant that there can be some issues with gun activity. We frequently play the neighborhood listserv game of "was it fireworks or gunshots?" Last year we came home from a vacation and found a bullet laying in the driveway. A dogsitter once had a very nice bike stolen off of her car that was sitting in the driveway for a total of 30 minutes.

The only other complaint with my neighborhood is snakes. My neighbor up the street got bitten by a copperhead last week and had to go in twice for anti-venom treatment. I have found several in my yard over the years. I don't want to forbid my kids from playing in the back yard, but it does make me kind of nervous...

 

[farce©]

We frequently play the neighborhood listserv game of "was it fireworks or gunshots?"

We always did the same, until the Door Dasher shot the kid trying to steal his car maybe 150 ft from our house. My wife came running downstairs and asked "did you hear that?" There was no question it was gunfire, not fireworks. No doubt.