Flaunt...

Good fences make good neighbors. Unless your neighbors ignore your fence and just knock it down whenever they need something.

This is the second time the Trickhart's have destroyed my fence while working on the monolith. The first time was when they had gunite applied to their basement walls, as described in my August 4, 2009 entry.

This time the Trickhart's needed access through my yard in order to install their lavish, wrought-iron, spiral staircase. They used my lawn furniture as a battering ram to smash through the block wall. I had just just replaced the wall from the last time they destroyed it.

The Trickhart's may think they can run roughshod over their neighbors and flaunt their fancy house in our faces, but like my grandfather use to say, "One man's spiral staircase is another man's pigeon perch."

It's amazing what forty pounds of bird seed thrown over a fence can accomplish.

- C Smith