I don't know that there ever is a good time, but what are people thinking?
Here's our property layout (in general) North side is highway frontage, East side has a barbed wire fence between our 5 acres and our neighbors 5 acres, South side barbed wire fence and 5 acres, West side barbed wire fence and 10 acres. Along the west property line is an easement for some of the properties behind us. Our property is wooded, as is the 5 acres to the East, the other surrounding properties are pasture. There's really no reason to be on our property unless you have rights to the easement, and yet.
Friday afternoon I found a Corona bottle on the east side of the house, we are having the roof replaced, and I don't begrudge drinking on the jobsite, I just chalked it up to a roofer losing track of an empty (there was still the smell of beer so it hadn't been there a long time), but since the roofers are Hispanic I had my doubts, surely they have better taste in Mexican beer. Sunday morning I found a Michelob Ultra can on the same side and there's no way I missed it Friday. What kind of a$$ takes a shortcut thru the woods with ticks and bears and just thinks it's fine to drop their empties? I moved the 2 security cameras on that side to cover the area, and moved the game camera to complete the coverage. I texted the neighbors and asked them if they had any uninvited guests, 1 of them decided it was a good morning to sight in his rifle and I walked my property with a shotgun in hand so there wouldn't be any misunderstandings.
But seriously, I'm averaging 3 or 4 hours of sleep at best with the whole dumpster fire of a year we're having. I'm on edge, cranky, and sitting in the living room in the dark. Sneaking past people's houses is not going to end well.
Here's our property layout (in general) North side is highway frontage, East side has a barbed wire fence between our 5 acres and our neighbors 5 acres, South side barbed wire fence and 5 acres, West side barbed wire fence and 10 acres. Along the west property line is an easement for some of the properties behind us. Our property is wooded, as is the 5 acres to the East, the other surrounding properties are pasture. There's really no reason to be on our property unless you have rights to the easement, and yet.
Friday afternoon I found a Corona bottle on the east side of the house, we are having the roof replaced, and I don't begrudge drinking on the jobsite, I just chalked it up to a roofer losing track of an empty (there was still the smell of beer so it hadn't been there a long time), but since the roofers are Hispanic I had my doubts, surely they have better taste in Mexican beer. Sunday morning I found a Michelob Ultra can on the same side and there's no way I missed it Friday. What kind of a$$ takes a shortcut thru the woods with ticks and bears and just thinks it's fine to drop their empties? I moved the 2 security cameras on that side to cover the area, and moved the game camera to complete the coverage. I texted the neighbors and asked them if they had any uninvited guests, 1 of them decided it was a good morning to sight in his rifle and I walked my property with a shotgun in hand so there wouldn't be any misunderstandings.
But seriously, I'm averaging 3 or 4 hours of sleep at best with the whole dumpster fire of a year we're having. I'm on edge, cranky, and sitting in the living room in the dark. Sneaking past people's houses is not going to end well.
