Neighborhood Drama & Growing Goslings

 The Saga of the Neighborhood Drama

We live a pretty quiet life but occasionally there pops up

a little drama.  Now in this day and age with all that's going

on with the virus, unemployment, and the issue of I'm not

going to wear a mask because it infringes on my rights,

and the idiot we have as president ... we have 

a property line issue in our community - specifically

those of us who live on the 'pond side' of the 'hood.  

I'll get this off my chest right now - you can not survey one

side of the community and not the other side.  It's not fair!

 Moving on... from what I understand this issue of

property lines started about 2+ years ago [give or take] between

the head of the association and a neighbor who made a few

flower beds on the 'common ground' [meaning the area

that should have been left natural with tall grasses/weeds].

 So let me back up for a second ... when we moved into this

house we assumed the property line was where our lawn 

stopped and the natural area because in our mind that

was our property line.  We had [here again] assumed that

the Board of the Association was monitoring property lines

from the get-go thus when they noticed the new beds in

another neighbors yard they tried to correct it.  Wrong!

 Our new survey lines takes away about 1/2 of our yard.

This includes two planting beds - one you see above

 and the one you see in the below photo.

 This is a re-landscaping expense we didn't see coming

[for one] and two if we had known our line wasn't at the

 end of the natural area of weeds we would have

never put our beds there.  We also felt having beds in the

back of the property added to the beauty of natural

when folks walked along the paths.

 We are hoping most plants will transplant okay but the 

thunderhead pine which is worth some $'s and 

another large plant in the other bed will not.

 We have a bumper crop of goslings this year.

 Back to the property issue.  The blackbird to the left in the

photo is our line so we are okay there but the angle of the 

line from our neighbor to neighbor is not.

 This entire issue makes me feel sad and mad.  The Board

of the association had a meeting a few days ago to discuss

this issue because just about every lot surveyed on

the 'pond side' had an issue.  One person's property ended in

the middle of a walking path, another neighbors property

ended in the pond.  So while we need to wait for the 

annual meeting in June to hear the outcome of if we have

to move our beds or not - we don't want to have anything

to do with having our beds on [god forbid] property

that doesn't belong to us.

 For our neighbors on our left they don't have anything to do

expect leave the cut grass grow to an area of weeds.

 We also have a bumper crop of bunnies this year as well.

 Overall the percentage of encroached area is [in my mind] is

insignificant compared to the entire natural areas within

the community boundaries.  But, the current president is a

former attorney, got a degree in horticulture [which he was giving

us a month to move our beds knowing darn well you do NOT move

or plant anything in the summer.  Fall is a time for that.]

So [all in all] you and I know where this will lead.

In the scheme of things with all the world issues this

isn't a big deal - just a costly one for us.  So now you

have the drama of the neighborhood in a tiny nut shell.