Colorado Fall Color Tours 2017!! - Event Date: 17 Sep. 2017 - 23 Sep. 2017

Mike, if my count is correct, this was #11 (once every year for the last 11 years for you mathematically challenged).  This year was close to last year and the year before for jeep participation. I challenge anyone to show how your organized chaos is louder and more unruly than someone else's family reunion during a holiday.  And who else provides a daily parade at 9:00 am and 4:00 pm every day, besides Disney???  We are in your corner.

I deleted my last post because you don't want to read about my jerk neighbor or my brother.

oldtime, you're advice has merit.  There were two men who wrote the letter.  My next door neighbor authored it because he can write in complete sentences.  My more distant neighbor can't write complete sentences, and put the close neighbor up to it because I've had the distant neighbor arrested by the County Sheriff for attempting to choke me.  He goes before the Judge in late November.  My next door neighbor has been accepting of this event for the last decade.  He does not care for old machines.  He did think my Electro-Willys was pretty special, because it was electric.  I may be able to talk my next door neighbor out of promoting the letter with the board of directors.  There is no way I could, or would, talk my more distant neighbor out of anything unless I were to drop the charges against him.  And that is not happening. 

I probably will have a conversation with my next door neighbor because he is, at least, a professional and a gentleman.  Even if we significantly disagree on an issue, we can do it in an even-handed manor, without a lot of yelling or name calling.  The distant neighbor would prefer to settle everything with fists.  He's a bully, and a hot-headed one with a quick temper.  That's why he attacked me.  It's his way of settling disagreements.  He'll have his day in court as a result. 

All of this occurred because I wanted to smooth out some of the washboard ripples in our road before the FCT began this year so folks who drove in would not have their teeth rattled out.  My distant neighbor took exception to me doing that because he said he had the contract with the HOA for road maintenance.  That contract is only in his mind.  No one has a road maintenance contract for the two miles of HOA roads in our subdivision.  In the past, who ever had time and the equipment to make needed repairs simply did it.  Maybe next year I'll just blade the road in the middle of the night so no one will know it was me.


Edited by m38mike - 16 Oct. 2017 at 5:09pm

Mike, it sounds like a few of your neighbors need an atomic dope slap. I get along well with everybody around me except for one house which is right next to me. (Damn kids and dogs). A guy across the street commented that he was glad that they lived next to me rather than next to him. Nobody complained when I went out with a tractor to clean the snow out of our gutters. (You shovel the snow into your yard instead of the street). Good luck with it all and I have spent a lot of time in your area.

m38mike wrote:   My more distant neighbor can't write complete sentences, and put the close neighbor up to it because I've had the distant neighbor arrested by the County Sheriff for attempting to choke me.

Wow Sounds like a great human.

Well good luck with your next door neighbor. Who knew that 70 year old Willys Jeeps would cause such a problem.

Guess it is a good thing for the neighbors you don't own a bunch of Honda Civics and Mazdas with the fart can mufflers!

Get your reasonable neighbor an adult beverage and a seat in one of the rides, invite him to the cookout / campfire. Maybe a t shirt too. He'll have a good time then will be complicit and tell the distant neighbor to spit. Then you can help him with his flatty when he gets the bug. If that doesn't work I'll sign up for next year. The neighbors can hold their ears when my rhoads lifters are chattering at idle 

Edited by Rich M. - 17 Oct. 2017 at 12:29am

Tim, it's got nothing to do with economics.  It's got everything to do with ego.  My distant neighbor and I had an arguement about road maintenance.  He popped his top, lost control, and attacked me.  I had him arrested.  Because I caused him to loose his composure, and got him arrested, his ego is bruised.  He's always been able to push others around to his way of thinking.  He couldn't push me, so now he's trying other ways to hurt me.  It's not happening.  I have the support of the board.  They like the Jeep parade.  So I'll talk with my close neighbor and see if I can get him to at least go back to being neutral.  I'd like to make him an ally but I'd be happy if he'll just keep quiet and watch from a distance.  He's an odd duck, definitely not mechanical at all, and I don't really want to be a close friend of his.  So I'll smile, talk pleasant, and see if I can get him to back away from this fight.  I might even offer to wash his windows since one of his complaints was that we raised too much dust as we drove by his house.

I do appreciate the support and encouragement and advice that you all have offered me.  Thank you.  Even the offers to help me find "a guy" to take care of business cause me to smile.  I'm not bothered much by this whole business because what I've done, and what I'm doing, I think is right.  From conversations I've had with Sheriff's Deputies and folks at the District Attorney's office my compass is pointed in the right direction.  That's not to say I haven't had bad thoughts about nasty tricks I've learned to do in the Army that would really make me smile if I applied those tricks to my distant neighbor, but I'll just think about them and smile.  This conflict isn't that serious.

I hope it works out. I was trying to stay away from the nasty tricks aspect. I know a few (book fulls)and I have rarely done any of them. I play well with the other kids as long as they play nice with me.

m38mike wrote: Tim, it's got nothing to do with economics.