Ragdollcatlady's Just a Little Patch of Weeds Farm journal

[Baymule]

We have a good relationship with the gas pipeline company that runs through our property. They are often confronted by hostile property owners, so we always try to be friendly and nice to the men that maintain it. Sorry that you had a bad experience.

Snoopy trespassing neighbors? That would royally piss me off. I am glad that you put up security cameras. Why do they go snooping on your property? What is wrong with those people?

 

[Bruce]

You have to wonder don't you? The only reason I would go to a neighbor's house would be to talk to them at the front door. Sure wouldn't go snooping around, what do these people expect to find? Guess I'd be putting locks on all the gates so they can't come in and accidentally leave one open for the animals to escape.

Hold tight RDCL!! Hopefully the gas company will read the riot act to their people and the sheriff got the message across to the neighbors.

 

[ragdollcatlady]

So for the Gas guy, I filed a complaint with the company itself after a consultation with the sheriff. They said there are protections for the gas/electric/firefighters, etc regarding trespassing to 'keep the public safe'..... but the thing is, there are NO gas lines on my property, for that company or any another, and the neighbors that called them out to mark gas lines (they are adding a fence right near their own gas lines) are working in the last 15 feet of the property near the road.... The neighbors have no business or permission to dig anywhere near my house or on my property, my house is 50 feet back from the road, so NO reason for the gas guy to breach the fence on the far side of my house (100 feet away from where they are digging and 20 or so feet in) and the other fence is 50 feet or more back from the street...on MY property.... nowhere near where they are digging. I couldn't care less if the gas guy was looking around outside the perimeter of my front fences, which is far more than enough space to asses that there are in fact NO GAS LINES in danger of being hit by the neighbors digging. Cue my anger!

And about the neighbor... He approached my wooden fence while snooping, looking around in a very obvious way, being nosey, but not touching anything, up to but not past, the wooden gate, again, a little more than 50 feet onto my property down my open driveway. That guy is one of the pompous @sses that has been rude and just full of himself since we moved in. He was the first person we met when we moved in and he was very clearly unhappy that we bought the property and said that if anyone ever broke into their "shed" (big metal storage building at the back of their property) that the sheriffs were going to come and our kids were going to be the first suspects. Talk about a "WOW! kind of @sshole. My kids were not even on their property at the time, they were running around exploring our own property and we had just stopped to say hello and introduce ourselves. And for the record, my kids were well behaved and would have gotten in some pretty extreme trouble by myself if they ever did anything even close to that, but they would never even dream of breaking into anyone elses property because they were taught to be respectful of both people and property. He also stated that we could not use their driveway to access our property… I had no intention of doing so, my van was parked on the dirt of my own property as he was telling us that, and I had plans to clear the cactus garden from my driveway first thing so I could access my own garage.... My kids learned to respect others property from me and I had never assumed I would be permitted to use anyone elses without their permission...But back to this week, the sheriff stated that he technically did nothing legally wrong, as that part of my driveway is open up until the gate, but that his behavior was really uncool given the history. As far as what he was looking for amongst my woodpile and silkie chickens... your guess is as good as mine. I bought a chain and a combination lock and installed it on my fence last night. The chain and lock are positioned to reach from both sides of the fence and the combo lock is so that if friends or neighbors need access, they just need the numbers, no keys.

 

[Bruce]

How is someone walking around on your property NOT trespassing just because it isn't fenced?
Maybe you need signs: "No solicitors, nosy neighbors or people trying to sell me on their religion".

 

[thistlebloom]

Seems like there is one like that in every neighborhood. We've never had much trouble in 18 years here, but the guy behind us hassled my kids when they were taking down an old sagging barbed wire fence, on OUR property where it borders his. It was a good 15' in on our side. That chapped my hide, then he rubbed salt in it by being obnoxious to my husband and I when we were walking the borders of our property.

It's good that you got the sheriff involved so now at least you have a paper trail of the problems.

 

[Baymule]

Why do people have to be such jerks? We had property one time with rental house next to it. The renter was seen hunting on our land. I put up no trespassing signs then went and told him they were for him and stay off our land. Somehow, they were blasted by a shotgun from his side, so back over there I went and royally cussed him out. About all he could say was Yes mam, yea mam, yes, mam......He went all over everybody else's property, but he stayed off ours.

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Locking everything up and posting no trespassing signs, beware of dog signs and video warning signs , locking the gate and solar motion detection lights has helped us tremendously......but if someone comes over my no climb fence, they will not be leaving in the same condition they climbed over in... and they sure aren't the welcome wagon showing up with a gift....only trouble arrives that way around here....

 

[Bruce]

Yeah, no reason anyone would accidentally be on your property. If the scouts came through the neighborhood selling they wouldn't try to go through a locked gate.

 

[ragdollcatlady]

Been a rough week at work... glad its over!

In better news... it looks like I may have sold 2 goats that were not even for sale. They will be ideal for their new families project, so we will be helping another family jump start their mini boer project. I will be delivering them next week and getting to see my grandma at the same time, so that is great!

My little Nubian buck has learned to suck his goat power punch/red cell mix from the syringe, we finished his coccidia treatment and are almost done with his thiamine injections. He looks the same though. He is still happy and active as he was before, still packing on both sides.

I am supposed to meet a buyer for one of the other nubian bucks tomorrow evening.

It is cold and misty/foggy out here. Been having occasional rain so yucky wet ground.

 

[Bruce]

Sorry you had a rough week at work, hopefully this week will be better.

Given the droughts California has had, I'd think you wouldn't mind a bit of rain.