The Mother of all "busy-bodies"!!!!!!!

Maybe you will and maybe you won't find this amusing or maybe you know or live next door to someone just like this but today was certainly a day. Now I know I have had more than my fair share of opinion related run-ins over the years and here is no exception. Normally though it's a live and let live perspective when it comes to neighbors. That is unless they are going to do something that is illegal, immoral, dangerous to us or anything to depreciate the value of the neighborhood.

Ya'll may remember the piece of land behind our home? It was just inside the old S-Line for the SEHSR project we also discussed. Well..... It was once going to be a road some 45-50 years ago but never finalized for what ever reason so it turned into city easement. It's not the type of easement that you are bound to maintain but we chose to do just that and it's all shown in pictures in my New CMJRR post and in a couple topics in the archives. Today a Friend came by and helped me out by dropping 3 pine trees that were dead as could be. Recently we have had some good wind storms and they have in whole or in part taken down several of the dead pines behind us. Most are far enough away or have a substantial Oak blocking them they didn't or don't pose any threat. But the three in question? Not only that but we have been picking up limbs or sections as large as 4" in diameter halfway into our yard. So.....They had to come down. 
Anyhow, and because of this, we had the Chesterfield County Sheriff and Police called on us today by a neighbor./DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/blink.gif It would normally be a big issue but since we are not residents of Chesterfield County...../DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/whistling.gif  The Chesterfield officers had to call our city officers and well.....The City officer didn't even give it the time of day and the fact that it wasted the time of three of the areas finest....Well judging by the radio calls of the Sheriff he could've been useful elsewhere. Yet it was certainly worth a good laugh and our friend sure thought so. In all honesty though it was actually more pathetic than anything else. I mean all the work we have done in clearing and maintaining things has done nothing but improve our property and the view for the neighbors, eliminate our problems with rodents and clear away otherwise dead and rotting organic matter that posed not only a critter issue but a fire hazard during that "season".  Our neighbor and not a taxpaying citizen of our fair city has to have more time on her hands than even I have and that's a scary thought. There's nothing like being the second neighbor she has felt it necessary to call the police on. The first being her County neighbor that lives directly behind us. Nothing say's to your neighbors that I never want to get to know you better than calling the police on them. Plus...that's just it (what I said previously! Our homes aren't even directly behind one another. There's gotta be 150 yards between us. This time of year is not a good example since almost all the foliage is gone. The summer you can't see anything on the other side. But we have transplanted well over 100 Azaleas on the border of things to create a natural and More appealing fence for the winter months and bring some color to the area in the Spring. Heck the proof of what it looks like in bloom is here. Just imagine what things will look like when they've had a chance to mend from being transplanted and grow because it's all not bunched together in a planting bed any longer. Sheesh/DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/crazy.gif  

Just wanted to share an interesting day. BTW she did take pictures of everything. I guess the headlines will read....

City Gimp has dead pine trees cut down by friend. 
Many leaves and dead branches crushed in chain saw frenzy!



Can't wait to see us on the evening news too?