Environmental reasoning...

Are you considered a bad neighbor, if your brand new neighbor is doing something harmful to our waterways and you tell him?

Hubby earlier this evening noticed that the person who bought the home across and slightly adjacent to ours was doing quite a bit of work on their new purchase, which we all believe is admirable.
It has a caged pool and apparently they had a few screens to replace and the pool itself must have needed a resurfacing to make it all new.
No problem with that and we would do the same if we too needed it, but the problem arose when the cement bags that were opened on the driveway where quite a bit of the cement appeared to be wasted and created a powdery mess all over by the workers and instead of sweeping it up; they chose to hose it down into our rainwater gutters that goes directly back into our canal, behind us.
This house is on the inner circle and therefore not on the waterside.
And the owner is from Ohio and new to our area.
So first Hubby called code enforcement that used to take care of these situations when he was a deputy but they switched him to another division and they said they would stop by in the morning to yell at them, ridiculous!

Any-who, Hubby thought that he could try to talk to the new owner nicely and let him know that it, could be a pollutant, and the man went nasty on him and said tell them his workers not him. And so Hubby used his past experience from these situations and let him know that he was a retired marine patrol officer and used to give out ‘Notice to Appear’, for a judge to decide for this sort of thing.
And the next thing we see is one of the workers going down towards the drain with an enormous broom sweeping back this way and all over the driveway into a bucket.
And so I suggested that he call back whomever he spoke to and tell them it was taken care of by him.
The reasoning for trying it the first way was not to make an enemy of a new homeowner; we have so few, mostly renters…they can be rather transient and seem never to stay more than a couple of years if that. We both hope that it won’t cause a damper on getting to know him.

Right now we are the second longest dwellers/ homeowners on our block that is a circle so there are quite a few homes.
The outer circle where we are, are all waterfront, but the inner one is not.
Not that that means anything; we have been longing for neighbors … that were going to set down roots!

Yesterday, I got a wee bit off track with my reaction to another blip in my timeline and forgot to mention that we had gotten the batteries at Sam’s Club and after Hubby installed them he took Skipper, yes that is why he was named that on the ump-teenth maiden voyage of Seas the Day!

How odd that we named her that, while her predecessor had been Miss-T after me of course and a fracturing of the use of my name and the mist spray of the water get it? But at the time I was in much better health way back in 2003 when we got her and every chance we got we went out on her. The one we had in NJ was named BLISS, named for our business, Bamber Lake Irrigation Sales and Service, thus the acronym BLISS, isn’t that so clever? Yep, I was the moniker bestow-er.

I was happy to see them go… not that I wanted to get rid of them but to see the little gal out with her guys that is, the boat and Hubby and Skipper; where they used to go often.

This is amazing to me for I have been feeling rather funky for the last few hours even running a low grade temp and dizzy with head pains even sitting down… but now I am not too bad…that is why I used the term, ‘amazing’, it must be knowing that I have all of you to chat with nightly that keeps me going… and on that accolade back at you all, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly to count all your blessings and to share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?