Okay, this post will probably turn into a rant. But, gosh, darn it, I’m so fed up with this, that I can’t help it!

We’ve owned some property outside of town (about 8 miles) for several years now with the intent to build our ‘dream’ home on it. Well, due to lots ‘o crap that we’ve been dealing with our dream was put on hold and in the meantime, several houses have been built around our lot. Which isn’t a problem. We’re not anti-people or anything.

However, we are anti-crappy-nasty-backbiting neighbors! But, you guessed it, that’s the kind we ended up with. Apparently, we’ve managed to land ourselves smack dab in the middle of three older men who stay at home all day and gossip about “those deadbeat people who have *gasp* building material on their lot (or as they call it junk) along with an unfinished stem wall” while their wives go to work. Not only that, but they are snoops who come onto our lot (when we are not there) and ‘file away’ their list of grievances to pull out and aggravate us with at a later date.

Now, we’re receiving nasty email conversations. Give me a break, people! Find something else to do and mind your own business. We’ve done nothing except fight for every step forward (and end up two steps back).

But, you know the worst of it? All this is ruining the fun of planning our home. It’s making it stressful, and irritating, and like we don’t even want to live there even though we’ve spent years building our dreams around that property.

Hey, anyone know of vacant land for sale in Mr. Roger’s neighborhood? If you do, let me know. I’m there!