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Old 10-29-2010, 11:05 PM
 
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Then there are the utterly charming people who use leaf-blowers and other loud landscaping equipment at 7:30 on a Sunday morning.

True. Timing is everything. Sunday am is always a bad time for loud noise
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Old 10-30-2010, 03:15 PM
 
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whats so bad for a sunday morning as opposed to saturday morning, its holy? what about for unholy people
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Old 10-30-2010, 04:11 PM
 
Location: Long Island, New York
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This peeves me as well. I take out my commercial backpack blower as soon as they leave and blow it right back towards the neighbor. If they don't like it, they can go stick it.
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Old 10-30-2010, 05:42 PM
 
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I used to worry about my neighbor's leaves but realized it was my neurotic tendencies causing me undo stress.Now I just pick a couple days about three weeks apart and make the best of it.Toss on the Ipod with either bluegrass or some blues and I just go to it.After Thanksgiving what blows in stays in.Really folks.....why let ruin your day.
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Old 10-30-2010, 06:15 PM
 
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I blow all my leaves onto my neighbors property around 6:30AM on Sunday mornings.
What?
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Old 10-30-2010, 07:10 PM
 
Location: PNW, CPSouth, JacksonHole, Southampton
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You have every right to be absolutely infuriated. Leaf-free lawns are some sort of 'shared community value' in most neighborhoods (one reason we chose to buy in an area of heavily wooded estates, where people have different 'shared community values' than obsessive neatness). So, by blowing leaves onto your lawn (and I'm assuming we're not talking about a few stray leaves, but the momser actually walking with the blower to the edge of your property, and deliberately blowing them in your direction), the landscaper put you in violation of those 'shared values'. I would view that as both an affront and 'material damage'. I would have been out on the street screaming death threats and extreme obscenities at the fool, so your contretemps is mild, compared to what could have happened.

Last year, some moron on a gigantic riding mower was coming onto my property, and turning that monstrosity around on the lawn in front of my personal office. He had the blade on the thing set on 'Scalp', and was cutting deep gouges into my expensive green velvet Zoysia, which I personally kept cut, with a little reel mower (cleaner cut...less soil compaction...no fumes... photo op for local paper...me in a Chanel suit & Cross-trainers, in front of my little Ionic-columned Petit-Petit-Petit-Trianon of an office, mowing & waving... and I could talk on a headset, while mowing...really pleasant way to take a boring conference). Anyway, I screamed such threats and insults at the poor zhlub (and his assistants), he quit all his clients in our little town... started doing yards on the other side of the Metro.

So, you should feel absolutely saintly, compared to me. I felt horrible. Then again, that lawn looked horrible for half that summer, because of his little incursion.

BTW, a place as enlightened as Long Island surely has community or county compost centers. Right? And most people there do have corners of their properties designated as compost corners. Right? I mean, most people out there, instead of raking, mow their leaves with mulch bags attached to their mowers, and use those valuable ground-up leaves in their borders, to help frost-proof their plantings and build their soil. Right?
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Old 10-31-2010, 08:58 PM
 
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Nothing like skidding on wet leaves and hitting a tree to ruin your day.
Try slowing down when you see wet leaves on the roadway....it's the law.
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