boscibo- I live on a block like that. Total conformity. It's not a subdivision, just a block. All of the houses are basically the same design and they're old, built out of brick, on a cement slab. Pretty old house. Once, by the very honest guy across the street, have we been called the "slum of the neighborhood." Why? Because we have a tree out in the front yard that has 6 million of those little [gum] balls. Well, they all just happened to fall when neither my mom or I could pick them up. I had a really bad head cold and felt like total crap for a week and she was, so it seemed, almost constantly at work. So I went over to this guy's house one day when my mom was at work and was going to ask him to use his leaf blower to get these things in a pile, then I would take care of the rest. So I had to sit and listen to this a$$ for about an hour, how we're the slum of the neighborhood and this is how nice neighborhoods go down---people like my mom and I. I tried to get my side of the story in but, with this alcoholic, I couldn't. I've found out if you let him think whatever the hell he wants to think, you have to listen to less b.s. that way. I tried leaving, but he kept on talking and talking. --- Slum this, slum that. Eventually, I just told this psycho to quit looking over there if it bothers him so much. About a week later, he got out there and blew the balls into a pile. For some reason, he dislikes my mother and I, which I am totally cool with. He'll cut his grass 6 times before he ever considers doing something in our yard --- that he'd be PAID for.

The neighbor to the right of me is going to have many dandelions growing in her little sad excuse for a garden.

The neighbor to the left of me, the husband, ancient as dirt, shoots squirrels. He has, like, a million bird feeders out there hanging in the trees. In the summer time, if a squirrel does so much as enter his yard, he'll shoot it. If it's eating out of the bird feeder, he'll shoot it. Last summer, I found a number of dead squirrels in my yard. I was made to keep quiet, we were 'new' in the neighborhood and they didn't want to cause "trouble." Well, this summer, we're not friggin' new. Let this old crap see what happens if I find a dead squirrel in my yard this year.

I also do stupid little stuff to annoy this... old ... person. Like this house came with stuff from the previous owner, who had to be moved to a nursing home. In the garage, I found a little squirrel glass figurine type thing. My window is on the side of the house where the gate is to the old man's house. He has to walk this way to put out the garbage and so on. So, I put the squirrel figurine in my window, along with pictures I have printed out on the computer. Also, when he's outside in the backyard, waiting for a helpless squirrel to kill, if I see one that he is focused on, I'll make a really high-pitched sound and scare the squirrel away. Either that, or I'll throw something in the squirrel's area to scare him away. Sometimes he tries to wave to me, but, I have no patience for a.h.'s like this one.

Ooh!!! And the neigbor to the right, the one that loves her garden... she lets her cats, four of them, be outside as they please. They always have to go in her house at night and when they want them inside, but they go outside a lot. I don't mind the cats being in the yard. But, I DO mind them on my car, in the flower bed, digging up the flowers (treating it like a litter box) and leaving their dead, headless birds in the yard. I was talking to the wife next door and she informed me that last year she lost a cat to a car. It was a partial outside cat and had gotten run over. So I'm thinking to myself, 'why the hell are you letting *these* cats outside, ya dumba..' Some people just don't learn and definitely shouldn't own any animals. She also lets the cats go in our backyard, which definitely isn't a good thing with Zoe. Zoe has come extremely close to catching squirrels, rabbits and birds. I don't let her catch them, but once she's chasing them, it's total tunnel vision. She doesn't hear me calling her name. I don't want any crap from the neighbor if one of her cats gets hurt by Zoe.
I don't hate her cats, but she needs to have some friggin'
consideration for others.

carole, where do you live? You're LUCKY!!!

boscibo--- lucky you! NO NEIGHBORS. Oh, it must be great.

Chesirekatt, do your neighbors give you any crap about your yard?

Sorry this is SOOOO long, guys!!!