srb08
Doesn't play well with others
Last Monday I was bucking some logs I'd been wanting to get cut up. I started at 9am and planned on cutting until it started getting hot. At 9:30, I noticed a Lexus SUV coming down the slightly improved logging road I call a driveway. The occupant, a middle aged woman pulled up, got out and started blasting me for disrupting her solitude.
Over the summer, she and her husband had built a weekend getaway on a piece of property adjoining my 150 acres. She has 20 acres but built her house about 50' off of my property line. My wood processing area is about 300yds from her house.
She explained that she had built this weekend place to escape civilization and the incessant noise from my sawing wood would not be tolerated.
I didn't know what to say, my initial reaction was to tell her to go f' herself but I decided to try and reason with her instead, Not one of my better decisions. I tried to explain that I heated with wood and cutting was necessary to keep my house warm. She suggested I get a better job so I could afford electric heat, like the rest of the civilized world. She also suggested that I build a new access to my house because the dust from me driving on my road was creating dust problems for her. At that point I realized that trying to reason with this woman was a lost cause.
I packed up my saws and headed home.
Yesterday, I was talking to one of the other neighbors who told me that this coming weekend, this woman and her husband are having a few other couples out for the weekend to "decompress."
Sounds like a good time for a night shoot. I recently put up lights on my range.
I think I'll even invite my buddy, the Sheriff, he likes shooting at night.
Early Sat and Sun morning will be the perfect time to finish bucking those logs, if it's nice out, I might cut all day.
My wife wants to drop in the next time this couple is out and invite them over for a drink.
Good idea dear, let me know how that works out.
Too bad, I'm fresh out of Hemlock.
Over the summer, she and her husband had built a weekend getaway on a piece of property adjoining my 150 acres. She has 20 acres but built her house about 50' off of my property line. My wood processing area is about 300yds from her house.
She explained that she had built this weekend place to escape civilization and the incessant noise from my sawing wood would not be tolerated.
I didn't know what to say, my initial reaction was to tell her to go f' herself but I decided to try and reason with her instead, Not one of my better decisions. I tried to explain that I heated with wood and cutting was necessary to keep my house warm. She suggested I get a better job so I could afford electric heat, like the rest of the civilized world. She also suggested that I build a new access to my house because the dust from me driving on my road was creating dust problems for her. At that point I realized that trying to reason with this woman was a lost cause.
I packed up my saws and headed home.
Yesterday, I was talking to one of the other neighbors who told me that this coming weekend, this woman and her husband are having a few other couples out for the weekend to "decompress."
Sounds like a good time for a night shoot. I recently put up lights on my range.
I think I'll even invite my buddy, the Sheriff, he likes shooting at night.
Early Sat and Sun morning will be the perfect time to finish bucking those logs, if it's nice out, I might cut all day.
My wife wants to drop in the next time this couple is out and invite them over for a drink.
Good idea dear, let me know how that works out.
Too bad, I'm fresh out of Hemlock.