nah Mz, they all same to be put. Even on nice sunny days, always indoors. I would not be suprised if they are doing illegal things in there.

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How ironic that you posted this. Several minutes after I read it, there was a knock from inside my garage door. My lady neighbor was knocking- the one who had not EVER spoke to me in one and half years- the one who will not even acknowledge Emily. They are moving and rumor has it that they are getting a divorce cause she is a drunk. Well everybody has been talking about her going to random houses and asking for alcohol or a ride somewhere. Monday I saw her walking back in the morning with some wine from Walmart- it was already 90 and she was walking and sweating bad. Anyway- now I have my own story- she told me that she got in a fight with her hubby and would I take her to the store to get some wine cause her husband got rid of her car. I told her no that E had been in an accident and she had the friggen nerve to say- well I do not know what to do I really don't know anyone around here. Well it is not my fault you have snubbed the neighbors for five years Plus if my hubby answered the door and she asked him- I might have had to kick her butt

 

 

Oh yeah and at the party today my other neighbors lost their daughter for a bit- she is E's age and they both thought the other had her! Scary at a water park!

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man that's bad! the nerve!

when we were kids we had a neighborhood drunk couple too. Never saw the guy. They had a dog named "Tip" who would always run away and she'd wander the neighborhood for hours and hours looking for that dog.....they used to just throw their leftover food out the back door for the dog to eat...

2 policemen earlier today were talking to the people who live at the other end of the street. their house is just in really shabby condition, its like they are bums. the yard looks like a dump. I wonder if someone finally complained about them. I don't think they rent either, they own.

Speaking of dogs, we've got a neightbor that has a husky puppy. It is so adorable yet beautiful! I love it when our neighbors have puppies, when they walk past our house, we always pet the puppy, and it always loves us. I love having a neighbor dog start wagging his tail and get all excited to see me as they walk past, just for a pat on the head.

We also have some neighbors whose dogs we hate. These dogs never stop barking, and they are small yippy dogs. Our friends used to live next door to these people, and the dogs would just bark incessantly when the owners were out. It was very annoying.

Our 90 year old neighbor passed away last week. I didn't really know him, he stayed in his house most the time, but my hubby knew him from when he (my hubby) was a maintenence man for a while.

Speaking of maintenence men, I don't like these new guys. The guys my hubby worked with were always polite and smiled at me, and said hi when I passed, etc. Just friendly. So you know that it's okay for these guys to be in your house to fix something. These new guys won't even make eye contact. Last winter, my hubby cleaned all the snow off my car, and when I went out to leave, the maintenence guy was blowing the snow from the sidewalk right onto my car!!

But one thing I love is all the music students we have around here. On a nice, open-the-windows kind of day, I can hear them practicing. We've got 2 french horn players, a trombone player, an opera singer, a piano player, a guitar player, and possibly even more.

gonna be a chick fight tonight down the block a bit......details as they develop!

Since I was talking about neighbors... First, a little bit about where I live. There's 4 long buildings, each with about 23 townhouses. Between the buildings is a long strip of yard. The lease lets you have 2 animals per apartment, no size restriction, so there's lots of dogs. And we have a Bark Park, which used to be a tennis court, but they got tired of taking care of it, so they painted it and put some doggy toys and trick stuff in it. So there's someplace to take dogs and let them off their leash and just run around.

The neighbors in the very first couple houses are always congregating outside. They're right by the mailboxes, so they have some extra porch space, so they've got a big outdoor table (the type that can have an umbrella in the middle). They're always outside having barbecues and such, and everyone is always welcome to stop by.

Then there's the Bark Park bunch, who take their dogs to play together in the park. There's one couple that live all the way down towards end of the second building who also have a bar in their living room and always invite us down for vodka drinks.

Also in the second building, but right across from us (we're in the 3rd building, about 6 doors down) is Nate and Courtney, the trombone player and opera singer. Nate teaches middle school band, helps out in the jazz department at IU, and the Nate Sutton Quintet featuring Courtney Crouse often play some mean jazz at Tutto Bene, the wine bar. Courtney is currently in the doctorate program at IU. They have a fuzzy cool black and white cat named Miles.

2 doors up from us are our California neighbors, Christy, George, and Zippy. Christy often takes Zippy (a tortoise) out into the yard between the 2nd and 3rd building while she studies. I'm not exactly sure what she's studying, but it's something about homeland security or national defense I think. Zippy is the talk of the neighborhood.

2 doors down from us are Dave and Matt. It used to be just Dave and his dog (and I forget her name now), but he ended up giving his dog to his parents. The dog was getting old, and Dave works long hours at the IU library (notice a theme here yet?), so he wanted her to have more care. Then he got a roommate, Matt. Matt's the hot neighbor from North Dakota who grills out the coldest day of the year. Matt is a composer who has got his music picked up by several groups across the country. He's also studying at IU.

Next door to Matt and Dave is the ex-Marine. I mentioned him earlier, he's a really cool guy.

Then a few more doors down is George who's from the Netherlands, I think (or somewhere around there). He's also a really cool guy. We don't get a chance to hang out with him much, but he'll always carry on a brief conversation when you pass him. He's also pretty good looking, and seems to have a new girl on his arm.

And then across from us, in the 4th building, is a couple who have a dog and a cat and a couple birds. They'll put a baby gate up and prop their screen door open so they can sit outside, the dog can sit in the doorway, the cat will come outside and lay on the pavement, and they'll even bring the bird cage out.

And finally, I think we just got a couple new neighbors. It appears a couple morning doves are building a nest in the overhang about 20 feet away. The cats are currently glued to the window, watching them fly back and forth.

I'd like to live in Mz's neighborhood.  It sounds like a cool, kinda funky place to live. 

In my neighbourhood the other night someone streaked down the road because they had their clothes stolen as a joke by her girlfriends after a boozy skinny dipping session! 

LOL...guess who!

Yeah, she's a good mom. And she's a single mom, and a minority, and it's nice to see someone not fitting the stereotype. I really like her and her kids.

In my neighborhood, old couple one way ... almost never see em
other side is a family that we only see the two kids doin yardwork every so often

I am in the process of moving to a new neighborhood! It is a totally different culture there so it should be interesting. I did notice someething funny that results from living closer to the stadium that was kinda funny. When a Brewers game is on, a lot of people park in my neighborhood to avoid the fees and parking chaos at the stadium. The fans have their own unique rituals in preparing for the walk to the game. One guy parked outside my place and loaded up on packs of cigarettes. He looked like he was preparing for battle! With a sigh of resignation, he finally got out of the car an lit up a smoke for the long walk. The drama of it was funny. Another fan must have felt he needed to represent. He started out in a Brewers t-shirt and jeans but proceeded to layer himself with Brewers apparel. A long-sleeve shirt, a cap, a jersey, a water bottle...all sporting the Brewers emblem. This is going to be entertaining!

Ok, my neighborhood. Let's see.

I live on a corner lot. Here are my neighbors...

Directly in front (across the street) the 50 something Mom who has two or three adult kids living it home. Pretty sure they deal drugs outta the house based on how much traffic comes and goes until the wee hours of the morning. Not complaining too much though because the 20 somthing girl washes her car obsessively in the summer while wearing a very skimpy bikini. This is always a good time for me to wash my windows or mow the lawn

To my left is the absentee landlord of a duplex. Upstairs is his friend who I'm not entirely convinced isn't a mute, as I've never heard him speak in two years. Downstairs is your common white trash. Little by little, as his cat has destroyed the $12 mini-blinds that covered the windows, he's opted to replace them with various colored blankets. He's in charge of shoveling the snow, but usually opts to just let mother nature take care of it when June rolls around.  (the owner had a new roof put on a few years ago, he went with the cheapest roofer he could find.  To this day there is one of those brackets they put up there to stand on.  You know the ones, a really long (maybe 8 foot) two by four with big ugly brackets on each side to let people stand on the roof.  The idiot is too lazy to bring it down and too stupid to call the company that left it.  Now every winter snow and ice for a nice big pile above it.  Besides that it looks ridiculous.)

To the right of me (again, across the street) is the real winner of the bunch. A supposed construction company is run out of the house, but the guy who lives there looks like a total idiot. He was constantly chasing down his three HUGE dogs that would always break loose after barking incessantly at whoever walked by. He eventually build them a chain-link fenced area, which has helped keep them from leaving dog logs all over his yard (which he NEVER cleaned up).

He's been known to leave his broken down pickup trucks on the lawn for months at a time, and rather than pay the $99 a year for a parking permit would just pull his regular truck up onto his lawn. Last year he finally put in a cement slab for it.

Directly behind me are the young couple who moved in two years ago and prompty replaced all their lawn with rocks and wildflowers. Not a section! Not a part! ALL OF IT! The ENTIRE lawn! Apparantly lawn-mowing is not something they enjoy. They had allowed their mother to live upstairs, but after a short period of time decided they didn't like the neighborhood and bought a place in a ritzy suburb. Nearly a year of the house being on the market with no bids (perhaps the badlands for a front yard wasn't helping?) they decided to just let their mother live there.

Top all this off with the fact that two years ago they closed down the old age home up the block and reopened it as a "come n' go" home for the mentally challenged and you can see why my neighborhood is SO much fun to live in!

Won't you be, Won't you be, PLEASE WON'T YOU BE, my.... neighbor!?

-- Edited by Jeremy Riggs at 11:01, 2007-04-22

Jeremy Riggs wrote:

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Directly behind me are the young couple who moved in two years ago and prompty replaced all their lawn with rocks and wildflowers. Not a section! Not a part! ALL OF IT! The ENTIRE lawn! Apparantly lawn-mowing is not something they enjoy.

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 Actually, when we buy a house, that's something we've considered doing.  Brian refuses to mow grass at his own house, so I'd have to do it, and with my reputation for household chores, we'd probably have at least foot high grass before I'd mow it.