Rough week in the country.

[rekees4300]

<Sigh>, glad that week is over.

There's one big lesson I've learned living in the boondocks ... HUMILITY! Just when you think you have things under control, reality slaps you in the face! If you expect the unexpected, dealing with rural living is less stressful.

 

[OzarkMike]

Overtaxed. I can relate to the loose dog problem and bicycling. But I knew that when I moved to the boonies I'd have to make some lifestyle changes, not only because of loose dogs, but crazy drivers. When road biking, you really take some huge risks these days - with everyone texting on their cell phones and not paying attention. Every month out in front of my property, there's a teenaged kid who runs off the road and hits a tree, a guardrail, a mailbox, or goes down a ravine. And this is a nice straight paved road that goes for miles! Makes me glad I wasn't out there on my bike!

About the neighbor's game cam. Sometimes when you're new to the area, neighbors who've been there for a while may have a sense of entitlement to using your property. So I posted No Trespassing signs (unless with written permission) all around my property when I first moved in. Posting signs is best way to establish boundaries and make it clear to everyone that they need your permission to be on your property. If your property is fenced too, that makes this even more clear. I'd post signs first, keep the game cam, and see who comes calling to claim it. You might be surprised that it's someone other than your neighbor who put it there. Many years ago, my dad confronted some youths who were hunting on our posted land without permission. When he told them to leave, they pointed a rifle at him and said they had been hunting there for years before my dad bought the property, and beside "who's going to make me?" They didn't realize that my dad's friend was in the tree stand just next to them. Dad's friend drew his bow on the boy with the rifle and answered "I am, and you best put the gun down!" He laid down the rifle and waited until the game warden arrived and arrested them. A tense situation. But the word spread quickly that you better not be hunting on dad's property without permission.

 

[Doruwuvaje]

i know that feeling :duh:

 

[Dftodd]

+1

I still have a tree stand under the shed for the last 5 years that no one has come for LOL

Ironically enough, my biggest complaint around here is on the weekends with the cyclists who ride our "coutry roads". No one EVER rides single file anymore, and they make it a point that they belong on the road as well and they seem to go out of their way to ride in the entire lane. When I road bikes, I road defensively, and always single file with traffic around if it were me and a couple of buddies.

For the dogs, well, people tend to let them roam. Not a fan of that practice as well.

Years ago, a couple of cyclists that used to live on the mountain I lived on used to ride side by side. They would take up the middle of the road on the main road going up the mountain and refused to allow traffic to pass them. Well, one of the firefighters from the towns volunteer fire department ran there new fire truck down the mountain to top it up with diesel.

Was coming back up the first hill and encountered these two yahoos. Couldn`t get around them and bumped the horn. Not realizing that if a certain switch was flipped it activated the lights and sirens as well :laughing: He managed to scare the dickens out of those two byciclists as well has himself. Said the bikes managed to levitate out of the road :thumbsup: About a year later a police officer handed them fines for causing a car wreck for being in the middle of the lane on a blind corner.

 

[4570Man]

Years ago, a couple of cyclists that used to live on the mountain I lived on used to ride side by side. They would take up the middle of the road on the main road going up the mountain and refused to allow traffic to pass them. Well, one of the firefighters from the towns volunteer fire department ran there new fire truck down the mountain to top it up with diesel.

Was coming back up the first hill and encountered these two yahoos. Couldn`t get around them and bumped the horn. Not realizing that if a certain switch was flipped it activated the lights and sirens as well :laughing: He managed to scare the dickens out of those two byciclists as well has himself. Said the bikes managed to levitate out of the road :thumbsup: About a year later a police officer handed them fines for causing a car wreck for being in the middle of the lane on a blind corner.

I don't think bicyclist have any right to take up a lane. Guess who didn't pay any fuel tax or license plate tax and can't maintain even close to the speed limit. Guess who pays both and can maintain the speed limit. Anyway, I don't make the laws. Regardless of who's right or wrong riding a bicycle like a jerk is a great way to end up dead before it was your time.

 

[Dftodd]

I keep my animals behind a fence and I expect others to do the same if possible. It is not possible to keep flying creatures (guineas, chickens, peafowl, geese, ducks) behind the fence all the time so if one of them gets smacked by a car, I cant complain about it.

That's just being a responsible owner. We've had good and bad experiences. I put down a neighbors dog after the neighbor was repeatedly told to keep his dog contained since it was aggressive. When it came on to the property and went after my 2 year old grandson that was the last straw.

We've had more good experiences though. Neighbor across the field behind us had a really sweet Siberian Husky. She was a nut and kept my wife and I laughing regularly over her antics. She was also a talker which I really enjoyed. She would bark once to let you know she was there. Then she turned into a bag of wiggles, demand a belly rub, and then proceed to start talking. Occasionally she would bail into the truck with us, so I would give her a ride around the block back to her house. I was absolutely heart broken when the neighbor had to put her down due to cancer.

Another time I came home from work and found a third dog in our sunroom. Two small dogs which belonged to us, and a great Dane mix The only way to get into the sunroom for them was through the doggy door which was for a small dog up to 20 lbs. Door opening was 6" wide, 8" tall :confused2: Never did figure out how that moose fit through that opening. All the windows and doors were shut and locked

 

[ultrarunner]

^^^ Many of the roads here are being reduced... and adding bike lanes.

What was once two lanes in each direction is now one lane in each direction or one lane each direction with parking now has no parking...

As for Bikes taking up the roadway... it is becoming more common with pre-driver license youths... a hundred or more in a side-show for bikes... these things tend to spread if this is how you are brought up... first cars and then motorcycles and now bicycles.

San Leandro Cracks Down on Bicycle Sideshows - YouTube

 

[bigtiller]

^^^ Many of the roads here are being reduced... and adding bike lanes.

What was once two lanes in each direction is now one lane in each direction or one lane each direction with parking now has no parking...

As for Bikes taking up the roadway... it is becoming more common with pre-driver license youths... a hundred or more in a side-show for bikes... these things tend to spread if this is how you are brought up... first cars and then motorcycles and now bicycles.

San Leandro Cracks Down on Bicycle Sideshows - YouTube

The "me first" attitude is just the wrong way to live. A "helping hand" is always better in my opinion.