Need to rant!! Dumb people!!!

[mom'sfolly]

You have a bad case of coveting what your neighbor has. Managing acreage is a complex job and is not deeded over when a person buys a place. They will learn, if they choose. Hopefully, you'll learn to be a little more open-minded about new people and learn to pursue those opportunities that come. Ask now about the second mowing, volunteer to help or harvest the hay and teach the owners about their property. They in all likelihood will be happy to learn; and everyone benefits.

 

[FutureChickenMan]

Seriously, this US vs THEM stuff has got to stop. I get it all the time being an x-Californian moving up to the Pacific North West.

It gets very old very fast, and one day, you or somebody you know will make a comment like the one above to the wrong person at the wrong time and end up with a fat lip.

While you think they're "dumb" for mowing down the hay, maybe they think you're dumb for having horses on land that cannot support them.

And as already said, nobody knows everything about everything.

 

[ruby]

My 'bright' neighbor moved to the country and put a street light in the yard! Sorry but I don't live in town because of the light, noise and people. I don't see it (their street light) but they do complain they can't see my house from the road (duh!) They also made it very clear they did not like my chickens and I don't even have any roos!

 

[ncgnance]

Think I have to agree with everyone else. Coveting what your neighbors have is sort of on the bad boy list. I don't like all these "furriners" moving into my state either, but they are my fellow Americans, and have the right to live wherever they want to. (Just wish they'd stop trying to change things down here.)

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

Yeah... I have no idea what I'm doing out here. Thankfully I have sweet and generous neighbors that have taken the time to help me out. I've met all kinds of nice people and I'm learning tons. I've even gotten used to random people pulling in the driveway and commenting on my gardens and flower beds.

I share a fence with one neighbor. When I first moved in they had a "bull" with big sharp pointy horns that liked to charge at my dogs and poke its horns through the fence. I couldn't figure out if it was merely annoyed or if that sucker was coming through the fence one day so I ran off down to talk to the neighbors. After a brief and very confusing conversation, we pinned down that A) the bull was a cow and B) I would never be breeding cattle.

I did point out that I wasn't really looking at that side of the bull/cow. I had been looking at the sharp pointy ends! I'm sure they had a great laugh over that one!

As everyone has pointed out, it is their land, their hay, their barn and their toys. If you play sweet they might share. If you act all snotty and insulting about it they will never let you play with any of it. You have no right to even be mad at them for cutting their grass. (There is a very fine line between mowing/haying and just cutting the grass.) It is their grass to do with as they wish.

If you really want to be helpful, mention to them that area rescues are in desperate need of hay and offer to cut it for them. Then donate it all the the shelters!

 

[Dilly]

Seriously they do not need a reason to cut there grass. I would imagine they did, just as we do here on our land. We cut it for fire control. I would rather buy what we need when we need it rather than let it get out of hand. In our case the animals do not keep up with the supply.

 

[All about the EGG]

I feel the same way when people flush feminine napkins down their sewers and they clog up...people, dont they know??? So I educate them. You should do the same.

 

[jnjross]

this must be what my neighbor thinks when we mow our 11 acres of hay

. i don't have a hay mower or baler sooo...

i don't get the street light thing? i live off the road too, but i love my street light, you'll never forget coming home to something "wild" between you and the front door in pitch black night!

p.s. I've never been a "city" person, nothing under 5ac is my rule.

 

[sweetshoplady]

It's too bad that they didn't check the price of hay in Florida before they moved up there. They perhaps would have then realized what a valuable commodity hay is. I pay 14-16 a square bale for Orchard/Alfalfa from Canada. Grass Hay, which is probably what that was, is very hard to get here is very pricy as well.

And with the droughts of recent years and the wild fires, it really put horse and cattle people in a crunch. I know of quite a few people, personally who had to cull a lot of their stock due to hay shortages.

I'd become their best friend.

 

[Cetawin]

Holy Cow. But as a native Floridian I can say....not all Floridians are that clueless! I would kill to have that place from the sounds of it. Sheesh bushhogging good hay.

They will learn if you teach them.