The Unlucky Neighbors

Okay, so we are the UNLUCKIEST neighbors. We have YET to have a good neighbor to one side of our house. (Although, we do love the neighbors on the other side!) When we first moved to this house, the neighbors to the left of us had bull dogs that got into our fenced back yard somehow & attacked our sweet Gracie Mae. We had no choice but to call the animal control because they weren't even home. When they were told to pay the extravagant vet bills, things went south. They actually despised us i think. They never paid the bills & then when domestic disputes came along & we had to call the sheriff because their own daughter in law came over for help... so things got even worse. Needless to say, the house became foreclosed on & on their way out, they stole all kinds of things from our yard! (power washer, weed eater, dumped dirt in the gas tank of the lawn mower) FUN TIMES! So we were ecstatic to get new neighbors. Hmmm......
The joy didn't last long! They ALSO have 4 dogs that they let run loose & they come over & stand us down in OUR OWN YARD! Randy has shot pellets at them with his sling shot (bought specifically for this purpose!) but they keep coming back for more. The neighbors stay on their property & holler at the dog to come (to which it promptly ignores them). Ummmm... COME GET YOUR STINKIN' DOG! We haven't even told them that their dogs got ahold of our previous cat, Opie several years ago which killed him! I was over it a few weeks ago & i marched my hiney over there (i guess courage came out of nowhere!) & told her that i had a (new) cat & i needed her to keep her dogs in her yard.... ummm.. please! So, she apologized & i went back to my merry little ways. Until the next day...... when we walked outside & found this.......Oh, yes! They had started a fire in their yard to burn brush & left it unattended. BRILLIANT. It was a warm & windy day, so it spread! We were actually pulling out of the driveway to head to Wilmington, when we drove over to check things out. A random person who doesn't even live on this street was patting out fire! Randy got out & helped, but about this time, the neighbors came home. Randy asked them if they did this on purpose & they said they didn't know. Umm, what do you mean you don't know? Did you start the fire & leave it??? The night before they were also burning brush, so there is no doubt that they started it. They ended up calling the fire dept to come out with a brush truck & wet down what Randy & the random man got put out to keep it from flaring back up & taking out their other neighbors whole back yard. Again... BRILLIANT! When the cop arrived, the neighbor lady said to him, "do you think someone did this on purpose?" I made sure i let the cop know exactly who did this "on purpose." Ughhhhhh.....

Check out all the black sections where it was burnt! It was even down in those trees.
And this is the side of the neighbors yard, where i barely missed catching the wood log they were burning the day before (we were driving off at this point & i didn't want to be obvious! HA!)

Seriously?!?!

Is there an end in sight? I just keep getting more & more IRATE as the weeks pass.... i guess the gas prices will make working pointless before long!

Simply Ridiculous....

On my way out to work this morning i saw a gas station & was astonished that gas was $3.79 & then during the day i passed this...... $3.84?! There are simply no words, so enough said!

Outraged!!

Something has GOT to give! I just paid $3.45 per gallon of gas! How absurd! It took $65.08 to fill up the ole jeep & that will last 4 days, 5 tops! I have found that every time i go to get gas these days (which as you can tell is pretty often) i get in the worst mood before i leave! I actually passed a station this morning that was $3.57 a gallon & i almost choked as i drove past. If these gas prices do indeed go up to $4.00 a gallon, i will have to start walking. I guess i will stay home more because it sure would take me a long time to get anywhere since i live out in the sticks!

Oh, & to top it off, not only did i pay an enormous price for this gasoline, but the station was too cheap to make sure i got a receipt- which just put me in a deeper state of disgust.