[gr8fl4porsche]

I just finished cutting down 2 trees and a 40' circle of very thick brush on my neighbors property this past weekend.

My neighbor received a citation from the city about removing 2 dead trees on her property. She told the city they were my trees. We have an unclear property line to which neither of us care enough to pay for a survey to find out where the line is. The city then sent the citation to me. I called them and said the trees were hers. The city said that is what she said. I asked the city to perform a survey at their expense to find out who has to cut down the dead trees. They said to throw the citation in the trash. That was an easy fight.

Being the nice hard working guy that I am, about a year later, I decided to get to work and remove the trees. Unfortunately the trees were smack dab in the middle of the thickest overgrowth this side of the Mississippi. It all had to come out. It took me 4 weekends to cut, chip up the branches and brush and move all the burnable wood to my wood pile. While removing the brush which had grown to about 25' in height, I was clearly cutting on her property and removing a barrier which gave her a nice bit of privacy. I was not sure if she would mind me cutting on her property but I did it anyway. When I was just about finished raking up the leaves, trash and 20 years of dead branch bits, she came walking over to talk to me. She was very pleased and thanked me for the hard work and beautiful job cleaning up an eyesore partially on her property.

Now she wants to plant a row of shrubs near the property line, I told her to take her best guess and plant away. I understand the future problems with property line violations, but really don't care.

These were the first words I ever spoke to my neighbor in the 5 years I have been in the house. Can't we all just get along.