-=PCTechTalk=- Re: cris Re: wyatt Re: Glad to be back
- From: "cris" <cris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 13:21:03 -0400
I worry too - these didn't seem that bad - and there were a few finicky people
out there in the beginning - but these really can't legally be enforced - they
were just written by the developer and nothing more than that - so it has
worked out ok. We're all here because we like it this way - so far, so good! We
'even' have someone who has a Metal framed clothes line up!! We talked about it
before hand - we thought the one family might try to raise objections - but
they didn't. Swing sets have to be made of wood for their base - Parking
doesn't seem to be an issue. We just widened our driveway a bit, but we have
cars sitting out now, and my neighbor always does - (on the street) and no one
has complained. I don't think anything is written about that - What I miss is
my daughter being able to just walk to friend's houses. I need to take her
everywhere. The borough near here is a little town, and the kids walk around
there, and will ride their bikes. Sometimes I wish I was friendlier with at
least one of my neighbors - but I'm really sort of glad I'm not. Anyone would
do anything if you needed them to - we all know each other - we just don't sit
and have coffee together! We did that in my old neighborhood - in fact, those
of us still in the area get together - actually - I think there are only 2 of
us left now!!!
cris
----- Original Message -----
From: Faythe & Al
To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 10:46 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: cris Re: wyatt Re: Glad to be back
Sound nice Cris !
I worry about places with covenants... if a couple people get finicky about
something they can change things & then you won't be able to even have a
bird feeder in your own yard, let alone let your car sit on the driveway...
what happens when you have overnight guests ?
you have a big yard so at least you have some privacy :) we have just over
an acre here, been here 13 years, we moved from a small town, which I liked
the atmosphere of, but we lived right on the main street & the state swapped
our road with the county making it a state route, so traffic & noise got
unbearable... I would of stayed in that town, even with the small yards ,
but housing prices had risen so much we could not afford it, so we just
moved further out. I miss the closeness of neighbors, that you can walk to &
talk or visit & walk to a grocery store, we had one small one in town, that
was about a mile away & was nice to walk to, drove when I had to do bigger
shopping, but still did most of it there to support the local business.
We only have 2 neighbors where we are now & it gets lonely at times. Our
house is built into a hill on the backside of a huge dairy farm with heavy
woods across the street & on the corner, low land that at this time cannot
even be built on. That was attractive when we first moved here, but now that
it is just the 2 of us & both of us can now no longer work , this yard &
house is getting to be too much to handle.
Hubby loves the privacy, but I would like a few people around (G) sometimes
you need to see & talk to others (G)
What a neat thing to have, a reindeer made from wood from a home you built!
a nice memory :)
Faythe
>>>>Hi Faythe!!
We built a house somewhere about 16 years ago, and our builder took the
Cherry from the lot where the house went. His workmen were amish, and they
were allowed to take whatever they needed to heat their homes. We found out
later that the builder was building Reindeer and Sleighs out of the wood
from the lots in the housing plan we lived in. He had given our one neighbor
one. So we asked him for one. We still use it every year, and it's really a
neat thing to have from when we lived there!
Most people where I have lived have cared about the trees and surounding
natural areas. My home now is on an old dairy farm, and any original trees
that could be saved are still here, and all of my neighbors have planted
trees and flowers and as they are maturing, it is becoming quite lovely. The
neighborhood lost a few trees after our last bad storm, but neighbors have
already replaced them. You might think my neighborhood is one of those
'formal' ones - because most everyone maintains their grass in their front
yards ! But we all have at least an acre of ground to play around with - or
to let natural !! We do have covenants here too - pretty much at this
point, everyone respects the ones that are worth respecting - mainly because
that is the appeal to where I live. Pretty much, no aluminum or vinyl siding
is allowed, and no above ground pools. We only have one pool in the
neighborhood anyway - and I think if it was done right, you could blend an
above ground pool in withou
t complaints. One house has vinyl on the upper dormers. Sheds are wood -
One interesting covenant was that your driveway was not allowed to come out
of the front facing side of your house! But we only have 17 homes here - we
moved here from one of those humongous 1/3 acre lot housing plans where we
had side door neighbors and back door neighbors....People still planted
their trees! but there was no privacy !!
Cris
----- Original Message -----
From: Faythe & Al
To: PCTechTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 11:56 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- - Re: wyatt Re: Glad to be back
Bonfires are nice, as long as you handle them with respect, and it sounds
like you do. It is nice that you plan to do something with some of the
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