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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 416541" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>FIRST go call the zoning board. Not all areas are zoned for pools, eeven country residential. Then find the dept that has to issue PERMITS and start riding their tookus to check this out. They may be able to stop her or change her plans or at the least fine her a ton of money so she cannot afford the pool. </p><p> </p><p>Then go find some bushy plants and get them started growing in front of your windows. Kudzu grows superfast, but if you choose this plant it on HER property. I know people who had to hire crews to clear kudzu out of their pools and homes because it is incredibly fast growing. I don't recommend it unless you want to work to keep your place dug out. </p><p> </p><p>There are bushes that grow in front of the family room giant window at my parents. In all these years they have been trimmed but will never be removed. We can sit and watch the bees, hummingbirds, etc... as they flit about. It is honestly the most beautiful window covering I have ever seen.</p><p> </p><p>Also look into those tube lights that go in the ceiling to letsunshine in. If you have to cover the windows you will hit depression overlack of sunlight fast. I think they are called solatubes or solartubes and they are in-fing-credible for depression caused by lack of sunlight. A very dear friend almost lost her husband to SAD related suicide and then put these things in. I don't think they are advertised for SAD but WOW the change in a short time was incredible. </p><p> </p><p>On to curtains. Or shades. What a pain. If you go to the habitat for humanity restore you can usually find the thick wood type curtain rods OR you can find metal pipe about 1-2 inches around. Or even PVC. You can make the part that holds it to the wall with a piece of wood, a drill and a saw. Then you just need fabric. If you lived here I would take you to my favorite fabric shop - my mom's house. There used to be a clothing co here that made high end kids/women's clothes and the owners also operated a fabric outlet. they always had a TON of fabric at a buck or two a yard. My mother never bought anything in less than a five yard lenght.</p><p> </p><p>To make your own curtains, you will need fabric that is long enough and is at least twice as wide as the window. Then you hem the top so htere is a pocket big enough for the rod to go through and hem the bottom if you want and hand them up. In one room of our house I hemmed the tops of different kinds of fabrics and put them up in a sort of random order. When I get tired I slide some off and put other fabrics up. Fabric glue and stitch witchery are incredibly fast and useful for this endeavor. Then all you need is the iron and a few minutes. Stitch witchery is sold 2 main ways - as a roll like ribbon or off of a bolt like fabric. If you don't mind cutting it into strips, it can be cheaper to get it off of the bolt like fabric. But the roll stuff is super easy and saves time. There are also a lot of good fabric glues.</p><p> </p><p>For privacy you may want to go to the fabric store and buy liner that blocks out the sun. It is very common and you would just sew it to the other fabric as a backing. </p><p> </p><p>There are a lot of other window treatments you can do. I have seen bamboo placemats strung together that looked awesome, other placemats, all sorts of things. I have an aunt who painted murals on her windows in one apartment and as a teen in her bedroom. Her bedroom was her parent's closet originally (that is what happens whne you have two boys and a girl in a two bedroom house atleast back then) and when I was a little girl she painted a giant picture of the rabbit from Bambi on the wall opposite her bed. She put a lot of other disney characters up there AND down the stairway to the basement. Gma let her use whatever paint she wanted so a LOT was done with oil and/or food coloring and even now cannot be painted over cause it shows through. If you want to paint a picture of some sort, I would use those acrylic craft paints that are about a buck or so in craft places (incl walmart). The apple barrel brand will work just fine but tends to need at least one coat more than the other brands that cost a bit more. I still use them often as they work for what I want to do usually.</p><p> </p><p>When you are tired of whatever you paint on the windows, it can be painted over, scraped off with a widget thingy or you can get it wet and keep rubbing at it until it comes off the glass.</p><p> </p><p>Have you ASKED this woman WHY all of her stuff must be so close that she can count you stretchmarks from her property? Or WTH she was thinking with workers working on Christmas etc...</p><p> </p><p>She seems to have NO CLUE and maybe it is an Aspie type thing where she trully doesn't or cannot understand that this isn't okay. When we first had the vet move in next to my parents (land that had been over 30 acres of pasture forever up to that point), their one dog barked nonstop all night. K and L (the neighbors) never did ANYTHING about S barking (the dog). Everything set S off, even wind. K had set up their fences so that the dogs had a fenced in area that was separated from most of their yard by a privacy fence - but NOT separated from my parents by anything but chain link. After two weeks we were ALL sick of it. SO at 3 am (I knew they both had to go to work at 7am) my mother went to their front door with a big carafe of coffee, mugs, muffins, etc... and rang the bell. She KEPT ringing it until they (and their preK son) answered the door. Oh so sweetly my mother said she thought she would bring coffee and muffins to share as clearly they couldn't possibly be getting any sleep either given the non-stop barking of their dog.</p><p> </p><p>She never said an unpleasant word, didn't give the evil eye, just acted like the fantasy neighborhood welcome wagon and like it was totally normal to go calling on your new neighbors at 3 am. It wasn't the last time S barked, but it WAS the last time it was allowed to go on all night. Turned out they put soundproofing in the master bedroom and were oblivious to the barking. </p><p> </p><p>So maybe explaining - NOW that you would appreciate NOT having everything crammed so close to you property might at least help. </p><p> </p><p>Just remember when you do your midnight rights that MOST people seem to find things said in Latin in an ceremonial way to be very very alarming. Even if you just say the farmer is in the woods (agricola est silva - NOT the right tenses and probably missed a couple of words but it is the sum total of the latin I retained from 2 yrs of high school study and from suffering through endless Latin masses as a child) - it is familiar but unfamiliar in a way that really bothers a lot of people. The few exceptions would be someone very fluent in Latin or someone who spent a lot of time in Cath church/school where latin was stressed (RARE).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 416541, member: 1233"] FIRST go call the zoning board. Not all areas are zoned for pools, eeven country residential. Then find the dept that has to issue PERMITS and start riding their tookus to check this out. They may be able to stop her or change her plans or at the least fine her a ton of money so she cannot afford the pool. Then go find some bushy plants and get them started growing in front of your windows. Kudzu grows superfast, but if you choose this plant it on HER property. I know people who had to hire crews to clear kudzu out of their pools and homes because it is incredibly fast growing. I don't recommend it unless you want to work to keep your place dug out. There are bushes that grow in front of the family room giant window at my parents. In all these years they have been trimmed but will never be removed. We can sit and watch the bees, hummingbirds, etc... as they flit about. It is honestly the most beautiful window covering I have ever seen. Also look into those tube lights that go in the ceiling to letsunshine in. If you have to cover the windows you will hit depression overlack of sunlight fast. I think they are called solatubes or solartubes and they are in-fing-credible for depression caused by lack of sunlight. A very dear friend almost lost her husband to SAD related suicide and then put these things in. I don't think they are advertised for SAD but WOW the change in a short time was incredible. On to curtains. Or shades. What a pain. If you go to the habitat for humanity restore you can usually find the thick wood type curtain rods OR you can find metal pipe about 1-2 inches around. Or even PVC. You can make the part that holds it to the wall with a piece of wood, a drill and a saw. Then you just need fabric. If you lived here I would take you to my favorite fabric shop - my mom's house. There used to be a clothing co here that made high end kids/women's clothes and the owners also operated a fabric outlet. they always had a TON of fabric at a buck or two a yard. My mother never bought anything in less than a five yard lenght. To make your own curtains, you will need fabric that is long enough and is at least twice as wide as the window. Then you hem the top so htere is a pocket big enough for the rod to go through and hem the bottom if you want and hand them up. In one room of our house I hemmed the tops of different kinds of fabrics and put them up in a sort of random order. When I get tired I slide some off and put other fabrics up. Fabric glue and stitch witchery are incredibly fast and useful for this endeavor. Then all you need is the iron and a few minutes. Stitch witchery is sold 2 main ways - as a roll like ribbon or off of a bolt like fabric. If you don't mind cutting it into strips, it can be cheaper to get it off of the bolt like fabric. But the roll stuff is super easy and saves time. There are also a lot of good fabric glues. For privacy you may want to go to the fabric store and buy liner that blocks out the sun. It is very common and you would just sew it to the other fabric as a backing. There are a lot of other window treatments you can do. I have seen bamboo placemats strung together that looked awesome, other placemats, all sorts of things. I have an aunt who painted murals on her windows in one apartment and as a teen in her bedroom. Her bedroom was her parent's closet originally (that is what happens whne you have two boys and a girl in a two bedroom house atleast back then) and when I was a little girl she painted a giant picture of the rabbit from Bambi on the wall opposite her bed. She put a lot of other disney characters up there AND down the stairway to the basement. Gma let her use whatever paint she wanted so a LOT was done with oil and/or food coloring and even now cannot be painted over cause it shows through. If you want to paint a picture of some sort, I would use those acrylic craft paints that are about a buck or so in craft places (incl walmart). The apple barrel brand will work just fine but tends to need at least one coat more than the other brands that cost a bit more. I still use them often as they work for what I want to do usually. When you are tired of whatever you paint on the windows, it can be painted over, scraped off with a widget thingy or you can get it wet and keep rubbing at it until it comes off the glass. Have you ASKED this woman WHY all of her stuff must be so close that she can count you stretchmarks from her property? Or WTH she was thinking with workers working on Christmas etc... She seems to have NO CLUE and maybe it is an Aspie type thing where she trully doesn't or cannot understand that this isn't okay. When we first had the vet move in next to my parents (land that had been over 30 acres of pasture forever up to that point), their one dog barked nonstop all night. K and L (the neighbors) never did ANYTHING about S barking (the dog). Everything set S off, even wind. K had set up their fences so that the dogs had a fenced in area that was separated from most of their yard by a privacy fence - but NOT separated from my parents by anything but chain link. After two weeks we were ALL sick of it. SO at 3 am (I knew they both had to go to work at 7am) my mother went to their front door with a big carafe of coffee, mugs, muffins, etc... and rang the bell. She KEPT ringing it until they (and their preK son) answered the door. Oh so sweetly my mother said she thought she would bring coffee and muffins to share as clearly they couldn't possibly be getting any sleep either given the non-stop barking of their dog. She never said an unpleasant word, didn't give the evil eye, just acted like the fantasy neighborhood welcome wagon and like it was totally normal to go calling on your new neighbors at 3 am. It wasn't the last time S barked, but it WAS the last time it was allowed to go on all night. Turned out they put soundproofing in the master bedroom and were oblivious to the barking. So maybe explaining - NOW that you would appreciate NOT having everything crammed so close to you property might at least help. Just remember when you do your midnight rights that MOST people seem to find things said in Latin in an ceremonial way to be very very alarming. Even if you just say the farmer is in the woods (agricola est silva - NOT the right tenses and probably missed a couple of words but it is the sum total of the latin I retained from 2 yrs of high school study and from suffering through endless Latin masses as a child) - it is familiar but unfamiliar in a way that really bothers a lot of people. The few exceptions would be someone very fluent in Latin or someone who spent a lot of time in Cath church/school where latin was stressed (RARE). [/QUOTE]
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