Oh my poor back.

Discussion in 'The Village Square' started by eileen, Jan 31, 2007.

  1. pondlady

    pondlady Young Pine

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    Eileen, I have friends who used to live in NO. They had a house on one street and property behind their slave quarters. The property was not accessible unless they walked around the block...rather like yours, it sounds. They made an agreement with the neighbors that they could build a stairway, rather like a huge stile that took people over the slave quarters and down to their back property where they then installed a swimming pool. With all the common walls in the city, strange ideas are sometimes employed to get where one needs to go.
     
  2. eileen

    eileen Resident Taxonomist Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    EJ when we moved into our cottage the previous owners had bought the second piece of land from the council as an investment. They were hoping to sell it seperately as a building plot. Luckily for us they weren't sucessful.
    Jan we're going to have a chat with our new neighbours and offer them a sum of money each year to allow us to have a gate in our back fence and a pathway over to our other plot. Time will tell.
     
  3. cajunbelle

    cajunbelle Daylily Diva

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    Lovely piece of land Eileen. Lots of work, but it will be worth it. The back of our property is overgrown, with a large brush pile in one corner and some more brush in the other. We are going to start clearing as soon as it is dry enough, but don't tell Richard, he doesn't know yet.
     
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    That was a lot of hard work, Miss Eileen. Is that early to see a bee there?
    A lot of times birds build nests and then abandon them so they are clean and nice. I have a very beautiful nest collection right in my livingroom. 8)
     



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    eileen Resident Taxonomist Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    Bethie we don't usually see bees here until about March so this one is VERY early.
     

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