We have had some fun and some sad stories about our next door neighbors

Would everyone like to share some of theirs with us.

** today I was getting ready for our winter weather, I got my generator out and get it started, well in about 30 min my next door neighbor got his out and started doing the same

That was the fun one, now for the next one the house behind me, decided he was going to sight the scope on his muzzle loader so he sits up a target on the other side of the road from his house ( the target is a pizza box) and he is shooting across the county road, at the target.

NeedKarma

Dude, you must be wayyyyy out in the country! LOL

J_9

Fr. Chuck, I thought I heard somone shooting their muzzle loader!!! Happens in my little corner of Tennessee too.

We also have people who golf through a busy intersection, in their front yards, between the chickens.

RickJ

Each year my neighbor drive to Indiana and buy about $800 worth of fireworks. We've got a homemade launcher for the shells and we make big fun out of smaller stuff, like strapping 50 roman candles together with duct tape, then use military fuse & black powder to get them all to light at the same time...then we make our own stuff (very loud - especially the dry ice bombs - and very smoky) to add to the mix.

...and 4th of july we end up with 50-80 neighbors and their friends in the back behind our deck and we set em all off rain or shine.

It's a hoot!

Nez

Where I am,in the UK,we have Bonfire Night,every year on November 5th,where we light bonfires,and set off fireworks.It starts about the end of September,and ends,January 2nd.
I blame Guy Fawkes

valinors_sorrow

Oy

LOL Nez

Let's see...

Apart from their firing guns into the air or the one who pissed herself on my couch (and I didn't discover it until three days later and yeah it was that scary) during a ferocious hurricane or having a bonfire party (maybe cousins of yours Nez?) at the height of a really bad seasonal drought catch the 17 acre woods we all live in on fire and nearly burn our house down, taking multiple crews all day to put out and my dog's butt bitten by the loose dog that twice since then chased me into the house fearing for my own butt, I would say my neighborhood is just a hoot too!

But it is a real neighborhood where we know each other's names ... when we were trapped in our deadend block from trees that fell in one of the several hurricanes, we all checked on each other up and down the street. Some people had still had power and so they stretched extension lines to others houses and shared food and cell phones.

J_9

Rick,

Check this link out. It is Ludlow Falls in Ohio. Columbus I believe, 51 years and still going strong. If you haven't taken the kids, it is worth it. I went for years more than 30 years ago.

The kiddies will really enjoy it.

bluerose

I’m really lucky, I moved two years ago into a really nice court yard with 17 flats. All the neighbours are 50+ and very nice. After being an army wife and moving around a lot, this is really nice and I‘m very happy here.

Fr_Chuck

I guess my neighborhood is that normal in TN, and you would think it was county, ( we are out of city limits) but we live in a older upscale housing development, each house sits on about a one acre lot. There are maybe 40 homes or so in our development. But I am on the corner lot of the main drive but the one behind me, shots guns every couple days ( he works on them in his home as a second job) and has various targets in his yard and across the street in a field.

The one across the street has a pistol target set up in his back yard but ended up shooting a hole all the way though my other neighbors storage buiding this year.

Of course since I am such a special person, like I always BBQ out on the first snow day of the year.

NeedKarma

I BBQ all year long as well and I live in Canada! I shovel a path to the BBQ on my deck after snowstorms. Damn I'm dedicated.