(get over yourself) maybe they’re watching squirells eat your shingles.
The house next door to us was a rental when we bought ours; it had nice big trees in both front and back yard. We benefited from the shade from their trees as well as the ones at the next two houses down the block. (We’ve got our own trees, but not on that side of our property.)
So then the owner’s sister decided to move into that house, and what does she do before she even moves in? Cuts down every tree on the property! I asked the lady who was still renting if she knew why, and she said owner’s sister said they were “trash trees.” Strangely, they left the crappy little palmettos at the back fence.
Since then, EVERY SINGLE TREE on our side of the block between hour house and the corner, five houses down, has been taken down. In Louisiana, where every tree knocks $25 a month (at least) off your electric bill. Go figure.
They aren’t touching OUR trees. We have a huge, huge oak (although I hear you have to have a special permit to cut down an oak, thank heaven at least SOMETHING is safe!), a nice big willow, and even a crepe myrtle that someone persuaded to become a tree that’s about 30 feet tall that shades the whole center of our back yard. And we have two pines and a magnolia growing rapidly in the front. Our back yard gets about 20% sun for about two hours a day, and that’s ALL. The front gets sun in the morning, and that’s ALL. (The huge oaks across the street do help that.)
Why, oh why, do people cut down all the trees??? One reason we loved this house was because the street was so lovely and shady! Now from the south edge of our house on down, it’s just merciless sun beating down all day long!
I DO NOT UNDERSTAND PEOPLE WHO CUT DOWN ALL THE TREES.
Could be worse. But then, you’ve heard that already.
My neighbor WANTS me to cut down trees. I don’t wanna. But she’s a little old lady who’s terrified that one or more of my big old trees is going to fall on her house.
Precisely why she should think this is unclear. It’s never happened before.
During an ice storm a couple years ago, a large branch DID ice up, snap off the tree, and plummet down on top of MY house. On my deck, actually. Spent HOURS chainsawing the thing up into bite size pieces for my barbecue pit… but not a thing happened to HER house.
…but it terrified her, and I began getting calls from her grown children, asking me to do something about the damn trees. I said I’d be happy to have them pruned back, as soon as I had about five hundred bucks with nothing better to spend it on.
I got more unpleasant phone calls from that woman’s kids. I got threats. I got lawyers. I told them all that I would deal with it when I could afford to do so, and not before (having looked up the local laws, first – if it falls on her property, it’s her problem).
A year later, I had five hundred bucks and nothing better to do, so I had a professional outfit come over and remove all the tree that overhung her property.
You’d have thought it was Christmas, the way she reacted…
…but ALL the trees? On a two acre lot? These folks sound like folks what shooda stayed in the city…
Just today I realised that a neighbor four houses down put up a solid vinyl fence at least six feet tall. And when I say solid, I mean looks like a WALL. It looks like a maximum security prison.
This thing really has no bearing on me because it’s far enough away that it can be ignored easily by ME. It’s just that mostly old people live on my street, no one really sits outside and the houses are far apart. Also, for a long stretch nobody has a fence at all which makes (made) it look really pretty.
So I guess what I’m saying is that a fence can be just as intrusive than no fence at all if it doesn’t fit the location. The only thing I can think is that the want to prance around nude behind there.