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

Mike,  

lowenuf wrote: Next year I could bring him a mason jar of Eastern mountain juice as a peace offering....

Next year I might need a jar of that juice just to help me put up with those knuckleheads!!

It still sounds like you have idiots for neighbors. I have a friend that has a house North of Klamath OR. Part of the HOA bit is to clean the roads. A couple of old coots have a dozer or a grader to do the job. Mark stuck all 3 of his 4X4s in his driveway. The old coot just smiled and backed up in the grader and started pulling trucks out.

I suppose it happens everywhere. My brother lives on a road with 3 houses. A neighbor up the road was trying to lure in Elk. Bill was chasing them off. The wildlife officer came by concerning the guys complaint about my brother. He is totally able to chase Elk off of his land. To attempt to lure in Elk is not legal. She asked if he wanted a landowners hunting permit so he could just shoot them.

Give 'em a good coating of reclaimed oil/diesel mixture and see how they like that !

I sent my near neighbor an email asking him if we could talk, and for him to set the time and day.  He called me yesterday and said let's talk Friday afternoon at 3pm.  So I'll go meet him at his house at 3. We'll see if I'm still any good at negotiating. 

In the mean time, I bought lots of lumber yesterday and got started on the roof for the breezeway between shed-1 and shed-2.  I got a half dozen 2x6 joists put up before wine time yesterday afternoon.  they went up so easy that I think I'll have the rest of them up before lunch today.  Then I'll put up the OSB, then the roofing felt, then the sheet steel roofing.  I hope to be done with it by the end of this weekend.  That will give me covered storage space for a couple of Jeeps for the winter. 

Unkamonkey wrote: At least it seems like you are making progress with 1 neighbor and have found something productive to do.

I had my meeting with near neighbor and we came to a few agreements.  He will withdraw his letter of complaint to our HOA board.  I agreed to do some research into dust control and to check into possible alternate access/egress from Thirsty Dirt Ranch.  George, interesting that you should mention that.  It turns out that another neighbor just bought the 80 acres to the south of TDR.  I asked him if he would allow me an easement to the road that crosses his land, and he said no.  After talking with my near neighbor, I will go back to my 80 acre neighbor and see if I can get a one week permission to use his road for the FCT.  If that is not successful, then I told my near neighbor that we could try staggering our times to exit TDR in the morning so we would not have such a large group going out all at once. 

On the dust abatement we agreed that we didn't want to see used motor oil being used on the road.  I know you all would love to bring me some used oil, but I don't need it.  Thanks.  Our Board just did some looking into dust control and concluded that magnesium chloride was the only reasonable option.  However some complaints about it's corrosive properties has  caused the board to not invest in it for our roads.  If anyone reading this knows of some other options that would be less corrosive, I'd love to hear from you. 

We could spray the road with water each morning, but I'm not sure just how long the water would last.  Another option would be to slow our speed way down to about 5 mph as we transit Hideout Lane.  Less speed means less dust in the air. 

My near neighbor asked about cancelling the FCT.  I explained to him what it means to so many of us to be able to get together to drive our jeeps in the mountains around here.  He seemed to understand and appreciate that.  I told him that this year we had 13 states represented and that we draw folks from as far away as CA, GA, NY, VA and many states in between.  He was surprised when I told him that the thread where we discuss this event has had over 30,000 hits just this year.  I don't think he quite grasped the enormity of the event, or it's value, but I don't think he'll be asking me to cancel it ever again. 

Lots of jeeps that are not camping at TDR come there in the morning for the drivers meeting just to head back out again in a dust creating convoy to the gas station