I have lived in a few different houses and neighborhoods, and up until now, have been blessed with really great, easy-going, nice people. Not so in this new place we are living. I got a knock on my front door from the guy who lives catty-corner and behind me. He wanted to know why there was heavy equipment on his property. I didn't actually know what he was talking about since I don't own any heavy equipment. I went out with him to see what it was. It turns out the guys who came earlier this morning to bury my telephone cable left their trench digger on a patch of grass just at the end of my driveway. That patch is apparently my neighbor's land. He doesn't bother to mow it or take care of it, but nevertheless, doesn't want a piece of equipment on it that isn't his. I told him the guys were coming back in the morning to bury the cable and the digger would be gone by then. He proceeded to tell me that the builders of our house bent the drainage pipe in the ditch at the end of the common drive and that he wanted it replaced. He wants to have a meeting with my husband and I to resolve the issue. I'm not sure it's our issue to resolve. The builder of our house said his guys didn't bend it and he wasn't going to replace it. . . The neighbor also made it quite clear that he does not want anyone inching over on his property with their lawn mowers.

I don't know, maybe I'm dumb or a push-over or something, but that kind of thing just doesn't bother me. If someone mows over into my yard, it's less for me to mow. If someone needs to leave something on my unmown, unkempt patch of grass at the end of the common drive over night, far be it from me to complain. I have way more important things to be upset by than inches over a property line. I sure hope this fellow isn't going to be a pain in the butt all the time. I guess time will tell.