[KEVIN & JOSIE]

Originally Posted by Patty55

Harsh? I'm thinking more like "realistic" based on my own experience. I don't put my heart and soul into "things" anymore, been to way too many estate sales to do that one.

Grant it, some people thrive on aggravation, I'm not one of them. I'm also not a control freak, I think there is only one thing you can control, your own attitude, not your neighbor, not even fate.

In the past ten or so years I have had my home totally destroyed by lightning (great view still), I lost 5 house pets (4 burned alive in the fire), 3 horses, my 56 year-old sister died last Christmas after spending 5 years in a nursing home from a stroke induced coma. Let's put the shrubs in perspective.

You know what I've learned from all this-Enjoy today, you don't know what tomorrow will bring or what it will take away.

Ever see a moving van folowing a hearse?

100% Correct! Life is too short and can be taken away in an instant. Do we really want to waste our last days worried about what the neighbor wants to do? All this over shrubs? That's why there are restrictions and rules, to keep all on an even playing field. If rules are broken, corrections are made. Wake up in the morning, be thankful for another day of life in a community where your dreams can come true. Enjoy every moment of the day....and let your neighbors do the same. Enjoy your neighbors!

[Patty55]

Truth be told, I wouldn't mind hanging out with the spitting vette guy. He sounds like he could be fun.

Hey Spitting Vette guy, if you're reading here can I bring my dog over and have a beer?

[CarolSells]

Originally Posted by Patty55

Harsh? I'm thinking more like "realistic" based on my own experience. I don't put my heart and soul into "things" anymore, been to way too many estate sales to do that one.

Grant it, some people thrive on aggravation, I'm not one of them. I'm also not a control freak, I think there is only one thing you can control, your own attitude, not your neighbor, not even fate.

In the past ten or so years I have had my home totally destroyed by lightning (great view still), I lost 5 house pets (4 burned alive in the fire), 3 horses, my 56 year-old sister died last Christmas after spending 5 years in a nursing home from a stroke induced coma. Let's put the shrubs in perspective.

You know what I've learned from all this-Enjoy today, you don't know what tomorrow will bring or what it will take away.

Ever see a moving van folowing a hearse?

Patty,

First, I'm sorry to hear of your losses. It must have been very difficult to lose your sister.

But THANK YOU for having the guts to say it like it is in this thread! Drama is as drama does!

Kudos to you!

[birdawg]

Originally Posted by Patty55

Truth be told, I wouldn't mind hanging out with the spitting vette guy. He sounds like he could be fun.

Hey Spitting Vette guy, if you're reading here can I bring my dog over and have a beer?

Once we get are house sold breakout to cold ones and 2 dog bones

[Bogie Shooter]

The tide seems to be turning................

[Patty55]

Originally Posted by birdawg

Once we get are house sold breakout to cold ones and 2 dog bones

Sounds like a plan, can we wear those army helmets that have branches on top and sit on the property line?

[collie1228]

Originally Posted by Patty55

Truth be told, I wouldn't mind hanging out with the spitting vette guy. He sounds like he could be fun.

Hey Spitting Vette guy, if you're reading here can I bring my dog over and have a beer?

I just wrote a short comment about how "not nice" that post was, but I'll just delete it and say this is getting personal and probably ought to be closed by the admin. Happinow, in my 62 years I've only had one jerk as a neighbor, and despite my dedication to ignoring his ignorant behavior, I still fumed about him. So I understand your feelings and hope it gets resolved amicably.

[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by KEVIN & JOSIE

100% Correct! Life is too short and can be taken away in an instant. Do we really want to waste our last days worried about what the neighbor wants to do? All this over shrubs? That's why there are restrictions and rules, to keep all on an even playing field. If rules are broken, corrections are made. Wake up in the morning, be thankful for another day of life in a community where your dreams can come true. Enjoy every moment of the day....and let your neighbors do the same. Enjoy your neighbors!

Good attitude, Kevin & Josie. As the Dalai Lama has said ....."Happiness is determined more by the state of one's mind than by one's external conditions, circumstances or events."

[hulababy]

sorry happi to hear your having problems. When we moved in we had a beautiful view from our hot tub and lost it to neighbor planting a fruit tree. also we had beautiful view out our kitchen window and neighbor planted bottle brush. Both views gone. Don't think there is much you can do. that is a DISADVANTAGE of the villages and our homes being so CLOSE. Most people don't think but when you pick out property imagine your neighbor and what they may do. Views can be lost very easily with landscaping. we have two homes (designers) near us on golf course. (we're not on one) both neighbors ended up fighting because one started the idea. Plants that blocked the others views. It just escalated until one neighbor built a extension just to try to keep his view and the other built a larger extension to try to keep his view. I hope it works out for you. Keep us posted.

[paulandjean]

This sounds like something from the past....Like High School.Students "Kissing UP to the popular Students.

[gomoho]

I'm beginning to believe I was lucky to not be able to afford "a view" that I would have to fight to protect.

[KEVIN & JOSIE]

Originally Posted by Patty55

Truth be told, I wouldn't mind hanging out with the spitting vette guy. He sounds like he could be fun.

Hey Spitting Vette guy, if you're reading here can I bring my dog over and have a beer?

[jdsl1998]

It sounds like...
1. the original poster was upset and needed advice.
2. they got more than they bargained for.
3. they need to "turn the other cheek" as in "look the other way"
4. let the laws take care of anything that can be changed.
5. get back to loving The Villages lifestyle.
6. we are not going to love it all....just most of it.

[jackz]

The bear was last sighted in the backyard of "Unhappy Now's" neighbor in his new bushes.

Sources report that he arrived in a Red Corvette.
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[graciegirl]

I hope that the planting won't be as obstructive as Happinow feared she will let us know how it looks.