Good morning!!!!

[plowhog]

Wanted to send neighbor a text with pictures but he had blocked it.

Neighbor problems like this are so difficult. Hope you can resolve it.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

You go from the Seven Day Calendar (M T W Th F S Su) to the Three Day Calendar (Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow).

ain't that the truth

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Dennis, looks like you had a wonderful time in Hawaii.
I'd love to go back but not flying makes that very challenging.

On the flight back, I saw a cruise ship heading that way. It is a long flight.

Buppies, sorry about lack of sleep.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 30 going to 37 and sunny. 6" of snow yesterday, heavy stuff, why we have tractors!

Happy Valentines day.
Got road and both the neighbors and my driveway, he is on a work trip.
Glad it's done as all the melting from being warm is now ice.

Happy birthday to your dad Scootr. Watched a show, I think Samantha Brown on the Temecula Wineries.

Kilroy - had to get on a train once to go fire someone who worked for me and started a fight. Was an easy choice, can't have that at work. Walked him out myself.

M7040 - sorry you have to deal with that, we have some "extra" runoff from our uphill neighbors that I and my road sharing neighbor are going to have to reroute in the spring. Not as bad as your neighbors negligence though.

Plowhog - sorry about the dog, wish they lived longer...

I lost count on how many pills I take each day.....

Be well,

Some crazy guy who looks just like me.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

31deg and sunny.
I'm coming down with something, started a tickle cough last night, and now in the chest. Negative gator bite test.
Got my taxes done and submitted yesterday. Had to pay a bit to the state, fortunately I made a mid year adjustment to withholdings, so not too bad, and will be ok for next year. Will need to increase fed withholding. Also had my 1 Jan show up on last years total.
Lots going on with everyone, glad we don't have big cats here like plowhog.
Wngsprd, hope you are on the trails soon. Gas prices shot up here also, but found a station last night that hadn't got the message yet, so filled there.
Kilroy, nice scenery on way to work.
Love the old fashion CAD system.
Scott, last time I called Dish it took forever to get someone on the line. Worst scam I've ran across was XM, will never have them again.
Don, happy 53rd Vday.
M7040, how does the water normally get from pond to creek? Looks like you are on the downhill side of things, so I assume there is a culvert under your driveway somewhere and the water isn't reaching it before it hits your drive.
ken, looks crazy, lol.

 

[daugen]

if you live on a hill, say half way up, and the water comes down the hill by gravity and mother nature,
runs over your property and then goes onto the next person down the hill,
can that person legitimately cry foul? What if it's been that way for hundreds of years?
I feel for Frits, I really do. His issues seem to be worsened by a neighbor's reluctance to
totally fix the problem. I wonder if the neighbor thinks it's not his problem?... Frits has sure expressed
his concern and even suggestions for corrective solutions.

I bring this up because my sister and her husband live halfway up the coast cliffs in California, a few houses below them, more above.
Bad rains came down, tore out part of neighbor above's property and all kinds of water driven dirt and rocks came down
and did 35k of damage to my sister's home. I'm not sure to this day who had to pay for it, I know letters were exchanged.
But everyone knows it was an extra-ordinary situation.
Do you hold your neighbor liable for extra ordinary or never seen before damaging forces?

A big concept in insurance education was liability. What does the contract say, ever so specifically, and
who rightfully should pay because they caused the damage due to some degree of neglect, whether by
bad driving, not trimming dead trees, or allowing ditches to get clogged on their property and flooding the neighborhood.
I saw that in NC, keeping your ditches clear was a very big deal.

lot of discussions among trainers at Travelers Education Center in Hartford. Probably the largest insurance education center
at the time I was there in 70's. While we would preface what we said by saying we're not lawyers, basically we were teaching
contract law. Having two parents who were lawyers made this pretty easy for me. I knew my torts from my tarts.

I have water coming down the private road next to me that flows through the floor of my garage and has wrecked one corner of
the concrete floor there already. Ultimately could wash out corner of building. the water is coming down a hill. I figure property owner has a responsibility to use swale or ditch or something to make a reasonable attempt to control water.
But you can't control it all the time.

what I'd love to do is get Ken's little Massey backhoe and get it between garage and road and at least ditch/swale that area a little.
not much room there, need a small digger.
project for a much warmer day.

thank goodness Frits has a good backhoe and knows how to use it.
we'll get him a cap that says RoadMaster

 

[m7040]

31deg and sunny.
I'm coming down with something, started a tickle cough last night, and now in the chest. Negative gator bite test.
Got my taxes done and submitted yesterday. Had to pay a bit to the state, fortunately I made a mid year adjustment to withholdings, so not too bad, and will be ok for next year. Will need to increase fed withholding. Also had my 1 Jan show up on last years total.
Lots going on with everyone, glad we don't have big cats here like plowhog.
Wngsprd, hope you are on the trails soon. Gas prices shot up here also, but found a station last night that hadn't got the message yet, so filled there.
Kilroy, nice scenery on way to work.
Love the old fashion CAD system.
Scott, last time I called Dish it took forever to get someone on the line. Worst scam I've ran across was XM, will never have them again.
Don, happy 53rd Vday.
M7040, how does the water normally get from pond to creek? Looks like you are on the downhill side of things, so I assume there is a culvert under your driveway somewhere and the water isn't reaching it before it hits your drive.
ken, looks crazy, lol.

You are right there is a concrete pipe going under the driveway that normally carries the pond overflow. Problem is that overflow is very small now that the neighbor has modified the overflow pipe and it causes the pond to overflow over the berm

 

[scott_vt]

Worst scam I've ran across was XM, will never have them again.

Good Morning Dennis ,
First try taking some Zicam for that scratchy throat ! Works for me usually!

The scams out there are unbelievable, I wish these people would find a real job !

 

[m7040]

Here is a picture of the normal overflow while the pond is overflowing the berm. During rainfalls is supposed to carry full flow but the the neighbor having raised the elevation of the overflow pipe in the pond has reduced the flow significantly and is causing the berms to overflow.

 

[check]

Mostly, we stayed right next to Polynesian center, walked there to eat. Drove thru Hauula several times. Did not eat shrimp. Did like the Korean BBQ.
They were having pro surfing around sunset beach, road on that side very slow traffic.
My Army buddy (used to live here) met us at kahuku one night for dinner at seven brothers.

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Make sure you visit the Polynesian Cultural Centre, and go to the evening show. It is amazing!

 

[Mark P.]

Good Morning, currently 48°

Buckeye, that was a nice looking buger, I could't figure out the onion rings, dang it looked good -- cardinal pic was really nice along with the dino pic, you were lucky to get away..lol...

Plowhog -- nice pic of lion

Drew -- nice cruise ship to Hawaii could be waiting for you..I wonder how many days it takes..I need to google that..

Have a nice day..

Mark

 

[txdon]

Drew, park RV at sister’s have her drop you off at the port and cruise to Hawaii.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning! Low was 29°, heading up to 52°. Sunny, but some gusty winds. Only around 30 mph though. The forecast has the first 60° day next Tuesday!

Fritz, sorry you have to deal with the drainage issue. Maybe time to forward the info to the "powers that be" and let them solve it. Being the neighbor blocked your calls..... he is not going to easy to deal with.....

Drew, hope you can get the plants happy..... and the heater dialed in. Glad the snow melted quickly.

Kilroy, I would definitely like that commute better than the Jersey turnpike! I hate going into the cities now.

Plowhog, sorry about the loss of your faithful companion. Always hard to deal with the loss. I wish our canine friends lived longer.

Vehicle maintenance went well. Nothing out of the ordinary--- thank goodness. Good for another few miles....

Going to try to do a small project for the wifey out in the shop. Making a small acrylic display case. Hardest part will be gluing the acrylic. Base and top will be wood. Not sure what else will get me in trouble after that....

Everyone have a great day!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Make sure you visit the Polynesian Cultural Centre, and go to the evening show. It is amazing!

I’m home now. We went to Luau on the big island. I went to the Polynesian cult center one 24 yrs ago.

 

[plowhog]

the neighbor having raised the elevation of the overflow pipe in the pond

why did the neighbor do that?

 

[m7040]

why did the neighbor do that?

He did it to make the pond bigger so it covers up the silt and canes and looks better

 

[sodamo]

64°F and 0 rain

Happy Valentines Day

Sears tech determined the refrigerator compressor is bad. Estimate for repair is almost what it cost for me to buy replacement. Questioned tech why they would repair a 2014 appliance. He said if he reported economically not repairable but part was available they make him do the repair. Doesn’t seem like best business decision to me.

All my Scag parts have arrived, so I will be involved with that today.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[riptides]

Here is a picture of the normal overflow while the pond is overflowing the berm. During rainfalls is supposed to carry full flow but the the neighbor having raised the elevation of the overflow pipe in the pond has reduced the flow significantly and is causing the berms to overflow.

Water issues proved to be difficult where I live. My neighbor elevated his land, over two acres, by about 3 to 4 feet. This created a lake effect between his house and his neighbor. He solved that issue by then installing drains from the pooling areas to his pond. His pond then dumped that water unto my property. Needless to say he did not fix the issue. I contacted county and state resources since he pulled no permits and effectively changed the natural flow of the land.

Lookup Common Enemy Rule Vs. Civil Law Rule.

Without a lawyer getting involved his actions became my problem. And it became a bigger problem of me vs. the local/state DEQ people when I attempted to drain the water in another direction. Unreal.

He has since passed, the problem remains.

Nip it in the bud the best you can. Good luck.

 

[m7040]

Water issues proved to be difficult where I live. My neighbor elevated his land, over two acres, by about 3 to 4 feet. This created a lake effect between his house and his neighbor. He solved that issue by then installing drains from the pooling areas to his pond. His pond then dumped that water unto my property. Needless to say he did not fix the issue. I contacted county and state resources since he pulled no permits and effectively changed the natural flow of the land.

Lookup Common Enemy Rule Vs. Civil Law Rule.

Without a lawyer getting involved his actions became my problem. And it became a bigger problem of me vs. the local/state DEQ people when I attempted to drain the water in another direction. Unreal.

He has since passed, the problem remains.

Nip it in the bud the best you can. Good luck.

Sorry you had to go through all that and not have it fixed on top of that.


In his texts prior to banning me he said a few things such as:

I am responsible
I will take care of it
Plan is to strip pond back down dump clay on it ,pack it, add mesh liner
Can't do the work until warmer and ground not saturated.
don't have time for your harassment
Your calls cause financial harm

County said:

Permit for pond was issued 1988
No changes can be made without new permit
Cost of engineering for water flow and pipe 15K
No dirt can be added to raise berm. Violation involving MDOE and fines
County has asked me to call if he adds dirt to the berm
Could take a long time because Department of Environment works slow legally

Somehow he thinks he does not need a permit and I am the bad guy if he is called for it

He also expects me to live with it until he decides to fix it

So let him try to fix it and call in MDOE if it fails or
Call in now and report it
and let him go through the new permit process?

 

[Thomas]

Wanted to send neighbor a text with pictures but he had blocked it.


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Sad part you know what kind of neighbor when in need.