The DRAMA Continues. Will I Ever Be Allowed to Live My Life on My Own Property?

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I recently wrote an article about the trouble that I am having with my neighbors. If you haven’t had a chance to read it, you can check it out right here.

Unfortunately, this is not the end of the story. We haven’t done much on the fencing because we have had a busy week (and I am hoping that things calm down with the neighbor).

On Friday, my neighbor called to let me know that I had to move my fence. According to her in-law (who is on the board of the township), I had to move the fence fifteen feet off of the line. She said that she was calling me because she would hate for me to have to go through the whole process of putting up a fence and having to move it. She sent me screenshots to show me that I had to move hte fence.

I told her that the township told me that I could have the fence two feet off of the line. She told me that the township zoning officer didn’t know what the hell he was talking about. I should be listening to her brother-in-law.

She also said that her husband was pissed at us for trimming the trees. Though she knew that she could trim the trees up on our property, she thought that if we moved the fence, we wouldn’t need to trim up the trees at all.

I told her that I just wanted to live in peace and that I was putting a temporary fence up in order to get the township up. I wasn’t planning on keeping it up. I just needed to get the township off of my back.

She swore that she didn’t call the SPCA or the township. She doesn’t care what we do because she is too busy spending time with her deer. She said if she was mad, she would have done it several years ago.

I told her that we have been trying to clean up lately and did she notice? She said that she doesn’t have time to watch what we do and what we don’t do. She is spending all of her time in the field with her deer so that they stay calm.

I asked her several times that it was too much of a coincidence that two weeks after she called me about the bottle babies, the SPCA came out specifically for the bottle babies.

She had her own opinions on who would call the SPCA and the township. She thought maybe another neighbor could have called. There is one whose property butts up to ours (where the goats are). I wouldn’t imagine that he would do that. We have always been friendly. Anyway, I told her that I had asked him, and that I had also asked if he had someone come to look at his building from the township. He said that nobody from the township came to look at his building.

She then said that I am always inviting people to my home to look at and buy my animals. I told her that I haven’t been selling much this year. But, I have been selling piglets. Most of the people who came for them only stayed a few minutes, so I can’t imagine that it was one of them. Also, this all started after I sold only one or two of the piglets!

I also reiterated that her husband really overreacted when we were putting up the fence. He could have nicely come down and see what we were doing. Instead, he started cussing us out. He also threatened us with taking away the squalls and flooding us out.

I told her that my children were scared of her husband because of the way that he acted. They were bawling and heard every word that he said.

She told me not to worry about her husband. He was not going to flood us out, and he was not going to do anything to my children.

I felt better after that conversation. I told her that I was going to talk to the township and figure out what I could and could not do. I told her that I had to get the township off of my back. I was hoping to put a temporary fence up so that the township is satisfied.

Photo byShelley Wenger at Canva

I told her that I would try to talk to her husband to try to make some peace because we could not live like this.

But my peace didn’t last long. That night, we came home and saw that her husband had removed the pipe that took the water off of our land. He was going to flood us out.

And just the next morning, she was out with her binoculars watching our son play in the hay field with his drone.

Something has got to give before my family and I lose our minds. My children are scared. I was actually pretty scared of him, too. I guess we will see what happens in the next few days and weeks. I am feeling very defeated and ready to give up!

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