Robindcr8l

Pied is a perfect word for Baldur because you can't get more colorful than him!

Baldur

It gets worse if one delves further.
She would be neighbors with an unemployed a wildly bearded gay, vegetarian, who is a member of the Green party.
Should a reporter make it past my foyer it would be further determined that I'm not entirely living within this century and that the Satyr is a recurring decorative motif in my home.
Upon further inspection they would debate whether the interior design was influenced more by Gustav Stickley, Jules Verne or the 1001 Arabian Nights.

Robindcr8l

Baldur, my recommendation, should Mrs. Palin consider buying a house in your immediate neighborhood, is to make sure when the realtor brings her around to look at the house under consideration, it is the precise moment you decide to retrieve you newspaper in your birthday suit. She's a conservative, you know.

Robindcr8l

;)

Baldur

She also shoots bears, that would be inviting trouble.

solosater

The Fuzzy Puzzler?

marius

Well - that would certainly create a human interest story!

Robindcr8l

Surely the monkey on your back will prevent any confusion about your species???

marius

Can see it now: News Flash!

"Yes, ladies and gents, Dick Cheney shot a campaign contibutor, but former VP candidate, Sarah Palin, just shot a gay, vegetarian bear!"

Baldur

The area here is wooded, the typical house lot is once acre.
We got new neighbors down the road two years ago.
The first thing they did was to have every single tree on their property removed. They also offered to remove free of charge a swath of trees from an adjacent property. That property owner was not in favor of deforestation and declined their generous offer.
Once the land was cleared they added a large deck, a huge above ground pool, some sort of an outbuilding and all sorts of cars, a truck, a large boat on a trailer and several all-terrain vehicles.
Then they promptly filed for divorce and now the Police come by for some complaint or other almost daily. Usually because of a terrible fight.
This happens out of my earshot but the other neighbors do talk.
Luckily the house is back up for sale, they will divide their toys and move out. The property however has been pretty much ruined.
A visionary new neighbor with patience and a green thumb is what we really need.

marius

Have known folks like your neighbors. Will pray for visionary with patience and green thumb.

Robindcr8l

Don't know about Sarah Palin's thumb color, but I doubt she's the visionary you would dream of for a neighbor. Luckily, sounds like the riff-raff might deter her anyway, so you're probably safe! But just in case, walk backwards to get that paper so she sees the monkey.

Marius, that line about Cheney cracked me up! My ex-boyfriend was a conservative republican and loved to banter with me, the liberal democrat, about politics. He picks on any Democratic politician mercilessly, but defends any Republican no matter what. However, when Cheney shot that guy, even HE had to make fun of that one. So I got him a bumper sticker that said... "I'd rather hunt with Dick Cheney than get a ride from Ted Kennedy!" LOL

marius

We had a neighbor with a pyromanic kid. Yep - one day spouse looks out the window and kid is pouring gasoline on extremely brown and dead Xmas tree ... and getting ready to light it. The tree was up agains the kid's house!

marius

Robin - love that bumper sticker. I'd rather do neither of those things ... : )

As for Pyro kid - I applied the three strikes rule. Told pyro it was okay with me if he burned his house down but since it was so close to mine, he'd need to move his house elsewhere. Next time it was lighting firecrackers covered with gasoline, then spraying something from an aerosol can and trying to light the spray with a lit candle. So, I called fire dept. and they said these are "911 situations" and that I could inform the mother that IF I had to call fire dept. that DFS would get involved. Mother was NOT happy but I think, mostly with me. Go figure.

Robindcr8l

People are crazy, Marius! How unhappy would she have been with you if her house burned down?! Sounds like that kid needs some psych attention. Does he still live there, or is he a resident at a local penitentiary?

Baldur

Baldur wonders if he would have stopped the kid or just called the fire department
Several years ago a teenaged son of another neighbor was selling drugs. Mom and Dad threw him out of the house but he still returned periodically and wandered in the narrow strip of woods across the road. Cars would come by and meet with him and then would speed off.
Baldur started carrying an old busted digital camera in his pocket. Over the course of several weeks I just started walking towards them with the camera. The cars stopped coming.
The next time the kid appeared the police made it here in time and took him away.

marius

The kid still lives there off and on, but his pyro days ended after visit with his Mom. Not long after, kid comes to door all upset because older brother had come home and there was a restraining order against older brother. So pyro kid hung out at our house a while that day. Since then none of them will look at us or speak to us. Some families are very troubled.

marius

Baldur - I LOVE your camera idea! How funny! And, effective!

solosater

So very nice of you to let him stay, so many people these days wouldn't want to get involed especially after the run in with the mom.

Shame can make you act stupid sometimes.

Baldur

We are rapidly approaching 2 milestones here at Radio Baldur.
This thread 'Channel Baldur' will soon hit 2000 comments and an amazing 100 pages. The anti-matthew club has a long way to go if it wants to catch up.