Perhaps a bit hypocritical
Posted by Carrie on 24 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: House and Home, Rants and vents
Maybe I’ve no room to complain, since I’ve certainly had warm seasons in which our yard was in a somewhat perpetual state of unkemptness. (Unkemptitude?) Maybe, then, this is a payback for that, or perhaps just a little lesson to keep me from ever falling back on those wayward days.
Still. It is a pain in the neck to deal with weeds and weird wild plants around the edges of our yard when it appears that on all three sides, the neighbors are choosing to ignore the patches of their own yards that meet our fence.
And when a neighbor’s trees go so wild that the branches are overhanging my yard to the point of sagging almost to the ground, I’m justified in lopping them off, aren’t I? (I did refrain from lobbing the cut branches back over the fence, much as I considered it.) I left the branches, spanning the entire back corner of our yard and actually heading for a third neighbor’s yard, that are bearing mulberries, though, and I don’t believe I’ll stop Sam from partaking, either. Is that wrong? 
5 Comments »
on 24 Jun 2008 at 2:08 pm
dangitAnge said …
Mmmm…mulberries. We’ll be right over to eat off your neighbor’s tree with you.
on 24 Jun 2008 at 2:30 pm
nicole said …
Yes once the branches overhang onto your property, you can legally cut them. And eat off of them.
on 24 Jun 2008 at 4:20 pm
Melissa said …
Yep, you can cut them. My parents had to cut a ton of the branches that helped ruin their garden last year. Almost just a stump, a very long stump, left in their neighbors’ yard.
on 24 Jun 2008 at 8:58 pm
Ashley said …
I agree with the others. You can cut them.
on 25 Jun 2008 at 3:54 am
anna v said …
We can cut them (and throw them into the yard. Cheers horrible neighbours!) but we cannot eat the fruit. Which is all kinds of bizarre IMO.