What are you doing today?

[anewbie]

Never trust an actual lawyer who gives you free advice. if you pay him a dollar he is more reliable. My ex worked on a lawyer's corvairs years ago and the guy neglected to mention that before I told someone to sue me (so they would pursue the other party on the loan) I should get a new bank account. When they had held my account for a month and all my checks came back and i told the lawyer he just shrugged his shoulders. Free advice is rarely free

To be honest the law is really funky. If i buzz you with a drone in your backyard; you can shoot it down but then you owe me the cost of the drone. If you plant a tree in my yard; i can chop it down but then i owe you the cost of the tree. If you go out of a town for a month and i move into (break into) your home you can't evict me.

Really bad laws.

 

[gwand]

To be honest the law is really funky. If i buzz you with a drone in your backyard; you can shoot it down but then you owe me the cost of the drone. If you plant a tree in my yard; i can chop it down but then i owe you the cost of the tree. If you go out of a town for a month and i move into (break into) your home you can't evict me.

Really bad laws.

In Maryland if a tree on my property falls and lands/damages my neighbors property, I am not obligated to make it right.

 

[GaryE]

A lot depends on where you are and your legal system. I would never offer legal advice on a fish forum, and that might keep you from having a tank in a jail cell. I don't know the US system, but I recently moved from a Canadian Province with the Napoleonic Code to one that follows the British colonial law. Different systems, different advice.

If @gwand's nextdoor neighbour says his tanks are ugly, he can push over trees to get revenge. You can't do that everywhere.

 

[anewbie]

If @gwand's nextdoor neighbour says his tanks are ugly, he can push over trees to get revenge. You can't do that everywhere.

I'm pretty sure he can't push it over - he has to pray to the wind god to create a gush that pushes it over

There is a difference between human intervention that causes the tree to fall and acts of nature. You talk about providences in canada but you only have a few of those - we in the good ol usa have 50 of them and many have radically different laws. You can smoke weed freely in colorado but if you drive across the state boundary into kansas with that weed expect to spend some time in prison

Talk about smoking weed you sometime get this sort of thing:

 

[GaryE]

I'm pretty sure he can't push it over - he has to pray to the wind god to create a gush that pushes it over

You under-estimate the power of the retired mind, my friend. All we, the retired, have to do is look at a tree, and say "Hey you tree. get off of my lawn." And vengeance is wreaked upon the neighbours.

 

[gwand]

Three of my massive oaks fell on my neighbor’s property over a five year period. Could not have happened to a more perfect neighbor. Yes. I willed them to fall.

 

[MaloK]

My little piece of land was completely covered with jumbo trees and when they started to fall. I was the first to be scared. Loll.

I still have many Cedars, They are soft and never causes damages wen they fall, in fact they never fall, they slowly droop and never breaks anything, But Oaks and Maples, they can poke holes everywhere and can destroy a house in a snap. I was forced to redo all my roof a little quicker than expected and restore my living room ceiling from falling branches.

I got rid of them all and got 14 years of free firewood, instead of being sued by a neighbor.

I have still a mature Norway Maple on the border of my "line" and it's seriously leaning toward a Child daycare lot. It's at it's full length and width, doing it's 75 feet tall by 50 wide and a 34 inches trunk.

When I planned to remove it 15 years ago, I went to advise that the next weekend the tree would be removed. But was firmly dissuaded by all powers that be in the city to do it. Loll.

Now 15 years later, They are still preventing me to bring it down, I mean, everybody at the day care absolutely loves it. It shades all their court all summer long and If I speak badly about it, they literally become hostile towards me. Loll.

So in the last 10 years or so... I often go to the limit of my land, put my hand on that tree... Close my eyes for a moment, and think...

"Please... If you could fall during a weekend, that would be great !"

And every time I get the same feeling... I'm going to fall first, and by a long shot.

 

[Oldspartan]

We wiped out every tree that could fall on any building on the property this year. Not really we. I had Alex the Woodcutter do it and he actually paid me instead of me paying him. Two years ago a humongous maple toppled in a wind storm. The top of the tree lay against the side of my house and a large branch dented the front bumper of my truck. We were very lucky, a couple feet longer and I would have had serious damage. A couple of feet to the side and the truck would have been crushed. Linda spent an entire year asking me, (nagging?), to get the trees around the house and drive down. Went a step better this year and Alex cut dozens of trees. Miss a couple of them.

 

[Back in the fold]

Got the wife out of the hospital and into a nursing home yesterday . The official diagnosis of her suspected cancer should come today . Fortunately the nursing home is a very short and close drive from home and I have more leeway to take care of her in that setting . The days ahead will be difficult and uncertain but I have a goal to get her home before the month is out . A guy has to stay positive . Not really liking being home alone but , oh well , right ? Fall , my favorite time of year , is coloring up and I keep my mind occupied with things like that and not my troubles .

 

[Back in the fold]

The nursing home is depressing if you look for depressing but little rays of sunshine poke in here and there . “ She Who Must Be Obeyed “ likes to eat and they feed the residents very well . They have activities that might be fun . We’re going to play bingo today and Jeopardy Trivial Pursuit tomorrow . There’s some sad cases in there that sit in their rooms and don’t seem to ever leave and many outgoing types that will talk your ear off . Upon leaving yesterday I noticed something in the corner of a sitting area . An aquarium ! A 55 gallon decorated with kitschy ornaments and plastic plants , a real non hobbyists aquarium but swarming with guppies and black mollies in perfect health . Every so often someone gets lucky and has a great aquarium despite their lack of proper fish keeping knowledge . This 55 is such a one . There are guppy and molly fry of various ages and the adults everywhere . The water is clear and sweet smelling and it just looks good . We’re going to go down there and see that today too . Life is full of ups and downs , triumphs and tragedies, hope and disappointment and life and death but you can’t dwell on the negative or you’ll kill yourself . I’m not happy about the recent turn of events in our lives but I’m happy to be reminded to stay positive if possible and a 55 gallon aquarium in a nursing home in a small city in a remote state reminded me to stay positive . This is the greatest hobby in the world and it will reward you when you least expect it .

 

[WhistlingBadger]

The nursing home is depressing if you look for depressing but little rays of sunshine poke in here and there . “ She Who Must Be Obeyed “ likes to eat and they feed the residents very well . They have activities that might be fun . We’re going to play bingo today and Jeopardy Trivial Pursuit tomorrow . There’s some sad cases in there that sit in their rooms and don’t seem to ever leave and many outgoing types that will talk your ear off . Upon leaving yesterday I noticed something in the corner of a sitting area . An aquarium ! A 55 gallon decorated with kitschy ornaments and plastic plants , a real non hobbyists aquarium but swarming with guppies and black mollies in perfect health . Every so often someone gets lucky and has a great aquarium despite their lack of proper fish keeping knowledge . This 55 is such a one . There are guppy and molly fry of various ages and the adults everywhere . The water is clear and sweet smelling and it just looks good . We’re going to go down there and see that today too . Life is full of ups and downs , triumphs and tragedies, hope and disappointment and life and death but you can’t dwell on the negative or you’ll kill yourself . I’m not happy about the recent turn of events in our lives but I’m happy to be reminded to stay positive if possible and a 55 gallon aquarium in a nursing home in a small city in a remote state reminded me to stay positive . This is the greatest hobby in the world and it will reward you when you least expect it .

Hang in there, buddy. I'm glad you're seeing the bright spots--that's a key to getting through something like this. That aquarium sounds like a blessing.

As for me, I'm trying to get caffeinated enough to go deal with hordes of little kids, after a wonderful but extremely hard day yesterday. Some days my body likes to remind me that I'm not 25 anymore. This is one of those days.

 

[Alice B]

I am tired, yesterday was long, tomorrow will be long, but today maybe I can see my bees before I go buy clown loaches and take them, and more rockwork, out to the 100 gallon. Then maybe patch a pond leak. I've kept aquariums in nursing homes before. The residents seemed to enjoy them.

 

[jaylach]

Watching baseball playoffs and keeping track of a wildfire about thirty mises from me that has consumed about 32,000 acres.

Even though just a bit under thirty miles away there is no expected danger where I am but a couple of small mountain towns are under evacuation orders.

New evacuations ordered at Elk Fire in Wyoming

New evacuations were ordered early Wednesday for the Elk Fire in the Bighorn National Forest "due to rapidly changing conditions."

www.ktvq.com

 

[connorlindeman]

My $600 trucK.
How it started:

How its going:

 

[jaylach]

My $600 trucK.
How it started:
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How its going:
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Personally I think I like it better with the bed topper. Just me but a long cab with a short bed just seems to look unbalanced.