Well how heart breaking to find several of the neighbours cows, not only in our property but in our front house section where we have our Bamboo growing. They have pulled 6 of our plants out, which is a death sentence in my eyes. Hence to say the neighbours name is dirt in our house now. How frustrating to find that someone who does not even know where his stock is?? Let alone know or care what grief he has caused us. The way I see it is if he did care he would know his stock is missing and be looking for them. This is what i spoke about earlier in my first blogs. Dont be a distant farmer, how can you run your stock and be in touch with what is going on when you live 400km away. Dont be a problem neighbour.
This is our new venture, blood sweat and tears stuff going on here. We only get a few days here and there to spend on our dream, so to arrive and find our precious time is taken up mustering someone elses stock and fixing fences, again and again is eroding our good nature and comraderie towards our neighbour. Let alone the damage they have done to my gardens, years of establishing plants, trodden and trampled, lawns turned to mush as its all so soft under foot from the rains, big hoof prints all over. All our plans for the jobs we had planned put off until another trip.
This is not the first time which makes it a bigger issue for us. Last time I thought I would be able to make him more responsible for his property by attempting to engage the local council and have them empounded. An effort that was thawted by another neighbour who decided to cancell the council ranger and neglected to mention it to me which had me waiting for hours at our property when I was suppose to be at my business. Finally I rang the ranger to see where he was and he told me that the neighbour who cancelled him knew whose cows they were and he would deal with them. Also that he would tell me he rearranged things. These are some of the joys you have to deal with when neighbours wont communicate. Or are happy to use you up at your expense. I guess they think its fine as long as their cows are getting fat on my feed, and my water.
So life is not always so easy when there are variables beyond your control. Despite all that there is an upside to our problem neighbours cows. (I do try to find an upside in every story.) We collected a lot of the manure that was left behind for our garden.
