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Rollerball · 05-01-2008, 04:54 AM

We're being all Green like, hardly ever use our car, only buy groceries on the bicycles, we recycle and pay $60 a year to a yard waste company to take a large bin of yard waste each week.

Our place sits on three lots, the house and yard on two and a third behind us that is all wooded, it goes down a hill to a stream, besides a small path it hasn't been developed at all.

So, here we are being all good about our yard waste, (and 15 lrg oaks can put out a lot of it), meanwhile all our neighbors are dumping theirs down the hill in our woods.

What are you supposed to do? Be a jerk and complain? They all do it and have been doing it for years before we bought the place. Its like a neighborhood tradition, they even scolded me for NOT doing it. What really bugs me is that the city will pick up the leaves and crap if you just pile them near the road in the fall. But the edge of the woods is closer.

We talked about maybe developing that land, you couldn't do much with it because of the steep hill and stream that floods the bottom, and we probably never will, but this bugs me just the same.

05-01-2008, 04:54 AM	#1 (permalink)
Rollerball Sarcasm Is Blue Asteroids Champion! Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 1,375 Thanks: 48 Thanked 72 Times in 49 Posts	Can I bitch here? Is this the right place for it? We're being all Green like, hardly ever use our car, only buy groceries on the bicycles, we recycle and pay $60 a year to a yard waste company to take a large bin of yard waste each week. Our place sits on three lots, the house and yard on two and a third behind us that is all wooded, it goes down a hill to a stream, besides a small path it hasn't been developed at all. So, here we are being all good about our yard waste, (and 15 lrg oaks can put out a lot of it), meanwhile all our neighbors are dumping theirs down the hill in our woods. What are you supposed to do? Be a jerk and complain? They all do it and have been doing it for years before we bought the place. Its like a neighborhood tradition, they even scolded me for NOT doing it. What really bugs me is that the city will pick up the leaves and crap if you just pile them near the road in the fall. But the edge of the woods is closer. We talked about maybe developing that land, you couldn't do much with it because of the steep hill and stream that floods the bottom, and we probably never will, but this bugs me just the same.
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