Last week, we mentioned another line list violation on our property. This is, you might recall, an ongoing problem. First there was the matter of moving the neighbor’s dirt to our lot, then there was the dumping of the neighbor’s sludge into a hole on our property. And then this past week, we saw this:

 

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Crews were cutting down trees two properties over. Inexplicably, they then brought the logs over to our property and started dropping them on to our “save” pile. Why? We have no idea. But we can tell you that we didn’t like it. We notified our ROW agent and he made sure they stopped. The explanation was that they thought they were doing us a favor, assuming that we would want more fire wood.

We don’t know whether that explanation is an honest one; perhaps it is. And we also recognize that this is a relatively minor matter; we know that we’re a little sensitive about these things. And it’s not even that we might not want the wood. Rather, it’s the principle of the thing.  The issue– you’d think this would be obvious by now–is respect for us and our property. Having a right of way does not mean that crews can do whatever they please, however they please.