Would this bug you? Owl in Road...

[63DH8]

Best thing is to keep it friendly. Neighbor wars are ones that noone wins. If he is just trying to dress up the ROW it isn't a major problem, if he starts encroaching on it, then it is 'let's talk' time.

Harry K

When it's not your neighbor, it's fun to chump talk. Seriously, I agree with you. If the neighbor is encroaching, it's time to talk with property papers and legal discriptions in hand. If the neighbor is trying to dress things up, then it's nothing to get up in arms about. Maybe the neighbor put the fake owl up to make people think, "WTF?" One winter, I iced my chain link fence because I thought it would look cool. One summer, I brought a truck load of snow down and let my girls make igloos. At the moment, I have several rows of corn planted in my front yard where the passer-bys can see. It's something they're not expecting and gives them something to talk about. Did I meantion I used to have goats running around my front yard? http://www.gunsnet.net/album/data//500/3048P1010027-med.JPG

 

[goneandbrokeit]

I knew you were trash talking and took it as such. My post is not about a solution( talking is the way) ,more along the line of WTF, I don't get it. I guess I am just not on the same wavelength of this neighbor.
The other one I spend 2-3 hours in his garage a weekend shooting the breeze with every weekend. This neighbor is in his eighties and amuses me constantly. When I first moved in he said of the owl neighbor, "He's odd". I say "what ya mean odd?". He goes "Well when he first moved in he bought a brand new lawn mower, after he had it for about two hours he asked me and my son if we could give him a hand, Ok we say what do you need. He says let me show you...After we got done laughing are A.... of we helped him fish the lawn mower out of the pond"

 

[SPIKER]

SEENS TO ME YOU HAVE A FEW CHOICES,
1. Ask how are ya doing and whats up with the grass & owl, (say it sets out a bit far and one of the visitors to you're place almost hit it with their very expensive easly scratched car) and that it appears to be in the road way.

2. make it misterously dissappear one night.

3. take papers & maybe the other road partner up there and request it to be removed/explained to you're satisfaction.

4. put up with it and perhaps more happening?

5. get a good shotgun and put ti out of the misery tell the person it attacked you & that he/she is lucky you got it or else it might have came after them as it had been stairing into their bedroom window for weeks

ok some of that wa sin fun but I know how it is to have encrochment issues... takes some easy handeling talk personable to them perhaps there is a logical (in their mind) explanation for it...

mark M

 

[Slamfire]

Maybe you could rent a schreech owl from a zoo. Plant it in a tree near the neighbor's bedroom window. It won't be a week before he's ready to remove his owl to get you to remove yours.

 

[MikeD74T]

Find a few pink flamingos to keep the owl company !!!

 

[Eagle1]

Find a few pink flamingos to keep the owl company !!!

Funny you should mention this.......

This is what I saw coming home the other night.......
First was shock then I read the sign in pic #2 and figured it out. My youngest had a ball running around the yard anyway...

 

[goneandbrokeit]

Funny you should mention this.......

This is what I saw coming home the other night.......
First was shock then I read the sign in pic #2 and figured it out. My youngest had a ball running around the yard anyway...

Well at least they are not in the road, but getting "flocked" in this way would definitely bug me.

 

[rox]

goneandbrokeit,

after lookig at your sketch i imagine it was the woman of the house who said that a little patch of grass in fornt of her house would dress it up and look nicer than asphalt and road. I doubt if it is anything more than that. i relaly don't see the harm here. if you are able to drive, the road being wide enough why not let them have a bit of a patch of green? so what they planted some grass int he ROW, right of way (i had to come back to your post later becasue i could not figure out what ROW was an abbreviation for)?

I would much rather have a neighbor trying to make their property nice taht i drive by every day nice, than some slob neighbor. I think the owl also is a nice way of saying, without the tackiness of putting up a sign, to stay off this area while they are tryig to grow the grass.

now i might be persuaded to feel differently if on the other side of the road there was a ditch and they severly narrowed the road making it more dangerous for myself and my guests to drive. but if there is adequate room on the road, i would try and respect their little home improvement project.

 

[goneandbrokeit]

goneandbrokeit,

after lookig at your sketch i imagine it was the woman of the house who said that a little patch of grass in fornt of her house would dress it up and look nicer than asphalt and road. I doubt if it is anything more than that. i relaly don't see the harm here. if you are able to drive, the road being wide enough why not let them have a bit of a patch of green? so what they planted some grass int he ROW, right of way (i had to come back to your post later becasue i could not figure out what ROW was an abbreviation for)?

I would much rather have a neighbor trying to make their property nice taht i drive by every day nice, than some slob neighbor. I think the owl also is a nice way of saying, without the tackiness of putting up a sign, to stay off this area while they are tryig to grow the grass.

now i might be persuaded to feel differently if on the other side of the road there was a ditch and they severly narrowed the road making it more dangerous for myself and my guests to drive. but if there is adequate room on the road, i would try and respect their little home improvement project.

It is not the grass that I was wondering about, it really was the owl. I can get by it well enough, but during the winter I suspect it will be an obstruction for snow plowing. It does narrow the road as the other side is a ditch with a steep bank going up.
I am all for people making their places look nice and respect their right to do it however they so choose. I guess I just understand the concept of a lawn ornament a lot better than road ornament.

 

[rox]

It is not the grass that I was wondering about, it really was the owl. I can get by it well enough, but during the winter I suspect it will be an obstruction for snow plowing. It does narrow the road as the other side is a ditch with a steep bank going up.
I am all for people making their places look nice and respect their right to do it however they so choose. I guess I just understand the concept of a lawn ornament a lot better than road ornament.

Well in that case i would probably stop over and compliment them on the grass but ask in a very nice way if they coudl remove the owl as it is a bit of a road obstruction, all the time assuring them that i would do my best to stay off the grass. Since the owl creates a hazard for me, i prbably would talk to them about it, in a very nice way.