It all started when her daughter came over at 3:00 pm, and yelled at me because my dog was barking. Yes, at them, because they were making noise too. That incident pissed my husband off enough that he won't speak to them at all.

Then, the other day, I was looking out the front window at a Chevy Van in our cul-de-sac...and suddenly realized that it'd been there for a few days, and that maybe it'd been abandoned. So I called our "Code Enforcement" group in the subdivision and asked them to investigate.

Well, after I did that, I found out from another neighbor that the van belonged to our common neighbor. To late to take the "code enforement" folks out of the picture.

THE NEXT NIGHT, a Sheriff's Officer knocked on our door at 8:00 and told us that there'd been a complaint about our dog barking and that he'd timed it at 10 minutes.

What am I to do? Keep a dog from barking? It was 8:00 in the evening. I do try and bring my dogs in before it gets too late. That way, they WON'T wake the neighbors.

Maybe I should contact "code enforcement" and tell them about the shed in their backyard. It doesn't conform to code! And oh, I'm not going to mow ANY of their grass again. There's a patch of grass around a water meter that is actually on THEIR property, but they NEVER CUT IT.