COLD DARK ROOM

[Chefdenoel10]

I used to have a small bass boat years ago that I parked in my yard by the alley. I noticed one day it had been moved then I saw the plane on the motor had been damaged. ? I live at the corner of two alleys so it is T and very tight to turn in. Now it’s even tougher to turn. I used 4” heavy wall square tube and made an H that sits 3’ down in 4 bags of concrete. I repaint yearly so I can see the new paint smears?

that is soooo wrong....(of them)....
Wow. My head would have exploded!

 

[Chefdenoel10]

Greetings all. I see lots of nasty neighbor stories..... Here’s ours. Our long-time very quiet kept to himself kind of single dad moved. House bought by a guy who got around. Hung with gangs of undocumented folks - used his house as a business place with various trucks parked all over the street. Workers would park & gather in our cul-de-sac every morning for work instructions. Semi-trailer truck deliveries. Work Vehicle washing in the street, blocking lanes, etc. It was a mess and all illegal activity based on County regs. It took my wife & another neighbor to document, record the activity - go to County management with formal complaints. They took action over n over and the guy finally moved. Whew......it was a bad three years maybe two. He kept expanding and expanding his activities. Really sad when one individual thinks they own the neighborhood/street & circumvent laws to their own benefit. Good luck in your search @Lyn W - in the mean time REPORT all the crap to the Council!

Wow!!
Two or three YEARS!!!!!
Ok.... you get the trophy ?
(For now)....
Mine just put a letter in my mail box asking if I would move my car out of the (joining) driveway so they can put up a tent ️ for food for their sons birthday on Saturday...
I had to say yes..
I didn’t want to take the chance of my car getting scratched... I would rather just move it...But that is my point…
What’s next?
how many more things can they possibly ask or just take from me?? ?

 

[Golden Greek Tortoise 567]

Hey CDR family, I haven’t been as active on the forum as usual, I’ve just started working again. Just wanted to say hi and hope you all are doing well. ?

 

[Chefdenoel10]

Stuff some clothes so that it looks like a body And shove a Halloween mask on it and stuff it inside the bin. It’ll give them a freaking heart attack when they open the bin and you can always put a note on and say “howdy neighbors”. People don’t tend to mess with me because I’m more than happy to have a confrontation with them if that’s what they’re looking for. And if I play, I play to win. Ethically and honestly of course, and always sensitive to the needs of others as I am a physician. Hee hee.

LOVE IT!

 

[Golden Greek Tortoise 567]

that is soooo wrong....(of them)....
Wow. My head would have exploded!

Agreed, mine would have too.

 

[Chefdenoel10]

Hello everyone, been hiding in my corner in this round room.
My doctor was weaning me off the med Lyrica. It's for nerve pain and my phantom pains have returned. The pain sidelined me for a moment. The phantom pains have subsided but not gone but bearable.
Will try to catch up. Looks like you all have been busy. ?

hope you are better real soon!!!!
You are one of the funny ones we like to read. Please take care of yourself!!!
Maybe a can of that Mountain Dew stuff would help? Seems they all like it on here?

 

[Chefdenoel10]

Good Morning All,

So this weekend it was working in the complex garden and I made a big tortoise for the front where everybody comes in. I forgot to take a photo and will take one when I get home to post on here for you all to see. It was a lot of hard work and my body was finished once I was done with everything. But I am happy because it is all starting to look much better and the efforts are starting to pay off.

However saying that it was NOT a good weekend, as I ended up mowing my keys and totally destroyed my car keys. Only to find out that the spare set does not work. I have to get the battery replaced. ?

Short story long, I was not wearing pants which had a pocket and I did not want to leave my keys on the ground outside the complex while I was mowing. I was worried that someone might steal them. So I hung them on a protrusion on the handle of the lawn mower. They stayed there the whole time I was mowing with no problem and towards the end they fell off and I did not notice until I heard the grinding noise of the mower going over the keys.?‍?‍?‍?‍?‍. Yeah Yeah, so very stupid and I should have known better and just worn pants which had pockets or hung the keys on a Lanyard to hang around my neck. But hindsite is always a B*#$%itch. But anyway that is the short story long.

Then after working on the tortoise late into the night on Saturday, we built it inside the complex first with the intention of anchoring it into the ground outside the complex (so that nobody could steal it) at a later stage, but then someone on Sunday morning went and pushed it over so that all of the succulents and everything fell over onto the ground and basically broken the whole thing. We then decided to just put it outside and dig the bottom part of the tortoise into the ground to stabilize it better with the hope that it would not be able to be pushed over again. But the fact that someone in the complex was nasty enough to do that kind of thing is just so mind boggling. I really do not understand why people have to be so nasty towards each other and why would they want to destroy the hard work of someone else when they are just trying to make the whole complex look better and beautiful. Ok Rant over. Sorry for ranting so long. But I really needed to vent and get it out of my system.

Today is windy, and we are expecting the next couple of days to be cloudy with a day here and there having rain. I love it when it rains as it is free water for my garden. I just don't like it raining when I need to work on my pond.??

Soooooo how was everybody else's weekend and How are you all doing?

I am so sorry for your hard work being demolished what a crap thing to do!
That being said....
I can’t seem to stop laughing about your first couple of lines.????
ssssssooooooo..... you weren’t wearing pants???? ?????????
That is how you should dress when you find the person who knocked over your project!
Also adorn a tie . Just a long tie!
see if that scares them into not touching YOUR stuff again!!! ??

 

[Cathie G]

Oh crap I just lost my opportunity to be an angel today. Gosh golly darn it.

That's ok you already were late anyway. Me too.?

 

[Chefdenoel10]

Holy cats!!! You are awesome! I am that way as well, maybe(but not awesome). I don't believe I said anything about my neighbor story on TFO because I am already a public embarrassment to my sister, but here is a summary.
A male neighbor and I were friends, somewhere along the line the friendship went bad and he started doing things, dog crap on my door, somebody else's garbage dumped in my carport, crap like that. So I come home one day to a handwritten sign in my carport reading " your a f***ing b**ch Maggot". So I stopped my car blocking the street, grabbed a hammer and took off for his house 3 blks away. I pounded on his house with the hammer screaming obscenities, pulling up his plants and throwing them at his windows. I was simply WAY outa line. So without buncha details, I was arrested 7 times in 5 years for retaliation for things he did to me. Now please understand, I was 69-70 he's 40 something. He loosened the lug nuts on my wheels, I had been doing 80 mph the day before, now I am doing 30 mph when my tire comes off and passes me up the street. Cops wouldn't even come. He did $4000 worth of damage throwing rocks at my car. One day he ran up to my car and punched me upside my head, I had a maple rolling pin next to me in the car, I just hit him straight on breaking his cheek, arrested for assault, me, not him. This thing carried on for about 5 years, with him crying in court, shaking and saying how afraid of me he was, and me showing stoic anger. I was arrested when he tazed me, I was arrested he was taken to the hospital crying and shaking...as a renter, he got kicked out of his house, I own my house, and he moved to the MidWest. and peace reined.
Please understand, I felt I only retaliated, not instigated. But I did fight back in a way that Little Suzy Normal would not. He regularly called the cops on me, I didn't call them but once. I got some pretty good charges, felony/criminal mischief, felony assault with hammer and more. I feel I defended myself against him. But the bottom line is, I am grateful my car got repainted (!), that I didn't lose my home or anything else. I think I would handle that kind of thing differently now, but I had been in a 25 yr marriage and relationship with a 1% biker, and that's what he taught me.

thank you for doing all the stuff I have wanted to do but dont have the ogatz.(sp)
I am more of a quiet camera catcher now a days... ?

 

[Chefdenoel10]

Unfortunately this is only a footpath so no chance of getting my car anyway near their bins......great idea though!

we must come up with something. Not too bad though....I loved that “body in the bin“ idea!! And the ketchup is a topper!!!
??????

 

[Chefdenoel10]

I am no longer participating in our national holidays.. you see, when it was national left handers day, I stabbed my left hand with a knife! I was trying to stab a hole in the bottom of a dog food can to break the vacuum seal so that when I pulled the top off it would pour easily.. but I grabbed a kitchen knife to stab the hole and the blade was flimsy.... so it bounced off the can and stabbed into the hand that was holding the can..(I glued it shut and it’s healing nicely now. ) I can’t imagine what I could do with a can opener?.View attachment 304335.

YOU GLUED IT!!!!?????
?????
Next time cortorize it with a cigarette! ?
I had a Russian friend who did that quite often..

 

[Chefdenoel10]

It's awful how one selfish householder can upset things for other. I have been keeping a record and photographing all the rubbish they have fly tipped behind the low wall opposite my garden, it's escalated this summer and usually done when I'm not home. I will be sending it all to the council and their housing association who own their home. I think they are more worried about the latter finding out.

perfect!! Good for you!!! That was brilliant!
But for you and your family and torts.... I would move.. sorry to say that but I don’t want you there if they retaliate... and the waiting for them to do so will weigh on your already frazzled nerves. I am in the same spot.. I am looking.... ???
And I hope the next people will be pot smokers and Asiago cheese (at 1:30AM) eaters and play loud music and slam doors too!! (They will probably get along).????

 

[Chefdenoel10]

Maybe you can put a motion sensor controlled light up, aimed at where he'd go looking over the fence. You know, to light him up... Proper lighting for pictures and all that! ?

PERFECT!!!! I would do this!!!!

 

[EllieMay]

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This is California's wildfire location map. I thought California was going to break off from the continent during a large earthquake and fall into the ocean, but from the map, it looks like we're going to burn up instead.

If you squint and look hard, you can see a darker ring around the edges of the Valley where Fresno and Sacramento are. I'd love to see a picture of the valley from space, because from down here on the ground, it's filled with smoke.

Is there any explanation of how all these fires start???

 

[EllieMay]

Oh, I'm a bit late today.
Good atternoonyeve, Racy Roommates!
Today is Kiss and Make Up Day!
I guess I'll have to start an argument with wifey first.

Well Hubby and I just kissed good bye.. we can make up (for lost time) when he gets home ?

 

[EllieMay]

Hey CDR family, I haven’t been as active on the forum as usual, I’ve just started working again. Just wanted to say hi and hope you all are doing well. ?

Hello! We hope the same for you. Congrats on getting back to a normal???

 

[EllieMay]

YOU GLUED IT!!!!?????
?????
Next time cortorize it with a cigarette! ?
I had a Russian friend who did that quite often..

OH HELL NO! I’m tough but I’m no John Wayne...

 

[Pastel Tortie]

Wow!!
Two or three YEARS!!!!!
Ok.... you get the trophy ?
(For now)....
Mine just put a letter in my mail box asking if I would move my car out of the (joining) driveway so they can put up a tent for food for their sons birthday on Saturday...
I had to say yes..
I didn’t want to take the chance of my car getting scratched... I would rather just move it...But that is my point…
What’s next?
how many more things can they possibly ask or just take from me?? ?

At least they asked! Just taking is worse.

 

[Pastel Tortie]

Hey CDR family, I haven’t been as active on the forum as usual, I’ve just started working again. Just wanted to say hi and hope you all are doing well. ?

Glad to hear you're working again. I bet it's a relief, even if it's a pain.

 

[Cathie G]

I really hope so. We still need to anchor it into the ground solidly, otherwise it could be stolen. I just hope that we get enough of a chance to be able to do that, But on the other case if they really want to all they have to do is go outside and pull all the succulents out. Anyway I believe if they really want to be nasty then they must go ahead and karma will come back at them 10 fold eventually.

I do have a true story like that. My neighbors moved and the rental manager hired a crew to cut down some trees and clean up that kind of stuff. My brother and I watched them use a blower to blow a bunch of old diseased tree crap into our yard and all over our sidewalk. They also left a huge pile of maple seeds really close to my house. The following day I tried to tell the manager what had taken place. He decided to make it into a confrontation which I won't do. He told me that all the seeds were just whirligigs and no one can control the wind blowing. I wasn't looking forward to all those seedlings sprouting around the foundation of our home. Later that fall we had a really bad windy storm. It blew a yard full of true crab apple tree leaves into his yard that he has to manage. And I got to enjoy a double whammy. A beautiful stormy day.