this is the sort of thing I've feared...could use a little calming energy sent my way

[northernlights]

Neighbor problem going on here (and I'm still shaking from it). Here is the background:

6 years ago I unexpectedly found 2 cows and an unfriendly bull (ring in nose means hard to handle/dangerous) in my pasture.:wow: I managed to escape ( I was face-to-face and about 15 feet from the bull :wow:), get the horse and goat "safely" locked in the barn, and raced up to my house. I knew which farm they had to have come from, so called all the people in the neighborhood with the correct last name and left messages. 10 minutes later, the owners, one of whom lives on the farm behind my property and the other in the house next door, plus the next door neighbor's wife Heidi, were there to round them up. I was gracious, I was good natured, I stayed up by the house chatting with Heidi, who went out of her way to be friendly while her DH and BIL rounded them up and got them back home.

Since then, they've never spoken to me. I've often seen them outside their house while walking my dogs. Smiled and waved...they scowl and turn their backs. Fine. Whatever. :eyes:

Last fall, their chocolate lab appeared in my pasture several times...and threatened me. Yes, poor lab, who should be a friendly, people-loving dog, is afraid of people. Luna chased him out of our pasture, but my dogs didn't follow him home. So I didn't make a deal about it and figured problem solved.

Well, last week apparently my dogs visited their house. Heidi came storming up my driveway about 10 minutes after they came home and blasted me. I apologized, said they must have gone through the woods. Before I could say anything about her dog coming to my place, she stormed off saying something about how I should keep my dogs tied up.

I've spent the last week on their cases, scolding them any time they headed toward the moose trail between our properties,and calling them in any time they were out of sight. They always returned from the *opposite* direction of the trail, so I thought they'd gotten the message. Apparently they got the wrong message and instead this morning they visited next door and then snuck back home by running around the perimeter through the woods so I'd see them coming in from the "safe" side.

Anyway, they had been hanging around the barn for half an hour and then were up in the front yard lying down. Then just as I was heading up to the house, they started barking and I heard a car in the driveway. I called them away from the car, which was sitting at the end of my driveway. They were sniffing around the car and just as Luna walked in front of the car, the driver took off, nearly running him over.

I came into the house and found a nasty message on my answering machine from Heidi. Last week the complaint was that my dogs were running around "like crazy." Now it's that they're "going to the bathroom all over my yard."

So I left a message on their answering machine. Here is my message, "Hello Heidi, it's NL. First I want to apologize. I thought my dogs got the message last week, but apparently they didn't, so I won't be allowing them to run loose any more. However, I do need to let you know that the reason I let them run loose is for my protection. Your chocolate lab came over to my property several times last fall and threatened me. My dogs chased him home but didn't follow him home, so I didn't make a big deal about it and didn't think there was going to be a problem. Since it has become a problem, I will not be letting my dogs loose any more. However, if you lab comes back here again and someone gets hurt, then their could be a problem. Do try to have a nice day."

I didn't mention that if I ever find their livestock in my pasture again, I will call animal control and I'll be up to our ears in beef for a loooong time.

Now that I've had time to think about it, I keep wondering about that car in my driveway. I know where Heidi works, and the car was headed that way. So I'm thinking next week I'll take a walk around that time and see if a similar car leaves her driveway...Seriously, I think that vile bitch deliberately tried to lure my dogs into the road and then tried to run them down in front of me. :( :( :(

[OneGrassRoot]

1. I will join in with a more calm approach....

when someone else suggests one. You need calming energy, but I have warrior energy when I read these accounts. Where innocents are concerned, I have ZERO tolerance.

I send vibes of support to you and your babies....but in truth I'm filled with anger toward the nasty neighbors. That's not the energy you're looking for. ;) I fly into an almost irrational rage when innocents are in danger, or even perceived to be in danger.

So, when a cooler head chimes in with more loving, productive thoughts, I will try to get into that space and add to the positive energy.

For now, I send you and the babies :grouphug:

[Flying Dream Blues]

2. I'm really sorry you're going through this...this undeserved

negativity is just so unsettling. It's one of the things I have the hardest time with myself, and in this case I definitely can see why you feel vulnerable. But I'm feeling strongly that you can call on protection from them; maybe visualize you and your animals and land bathed in white light, with only positive energies allowed inside.

I'm sending calming energy that you requested, and asking that your neighbors' irrational anger be calmed and dispersed without further harm to anyone. And some love light beaming your way, too. Take care and let us know how things are going.
:hug: :hug:

[northernlights]

3. thank you so much, you guys...

OGR, by taking on and sharing some of my upset, you've already helped to calm me down. :hug:

And thank you FB for the white calming light. Now maybe I'll be able to get some inside chores done... :hug:

[Cleita]

4. I live in a rural place too. My family put up fences to keep their animals

in and other people's animals out. I'm sure fencing your property would be costly, but maybe you should think of budgeting for it in the future. In the meantime calling animal control to handle the issue seems like the wisest decision right now. Your neighbors might not think twice of shooting your animals or running them over if things escalate between yourselves. Having the sheriff explain facts to them does wonders. I have had to call the fire department when my neighbors were burning trash illegally. I live in an area prone to fires. They don't talk to me but they don't light fires anymore either.Best of luck in this. I know it isn't easy.

[northernlights]

5. fencing is not an option

I am currently living hand-to-mouth and have been trying to sell this place for a year due to the crappy location, crappy neighbors and crappy energy around here. Even if I did have money to invest in this place, I wouldn't spend one penny more on it. I would leave in a heartbeat and dump it just to escape. I remember when I first moved here, every time I rode -- and I mean *every* time -- gunfire would start going off from the direction of their farm as soon as I tried to mount. I'd have one foot in stirrup and one in the air, and the gunfire would start. It stopped as soon as I stopped riding. It's as if they were watching me and trying to deliberately spook my horse.

I realize they wouldn't think twice about shooting my animals, or poisoning them *except* that they're afraid that if theirs come over here, I'll call animal control on them and if they put out poison their own might get it. That's why, when their bull and cows were in my backyard after their fencing came down, the first thing they said was "don't call the police. don't call the police" even though I quite obviously had NOT called the police or animal control. I was very nice about it, despite the very obvious danger to myself, my horse and my goat.

For 5 years my dog *never* went to their house -- it was only after their dog came here and threatened me that it became a problem.

So maybe instead of them threatening me, they should consider their own behavior and their own fencing. They're the wealthy party here and were the instigators AND escalators, not me.

In the meantime, as I wrote above, I now am forced to change our entire routine around. I will be back to walking the dogs multiple times daily, despite the potential problems for Jake's hips. And I'll be walking them right past *their* house, where their dogs have also come out into the road threatened me in the past.

And in the past, when their dogs followed me into the street snarling and growling, I sent them back home. It happens again, it will be a matter for animal control. Same as their bull.

[rosesaylavee]

10. Pepper spray maybe a good thing to invest in if their dogs

do attack...

Sorry you are going thru this. ugh.

[MorningGlow]

6. Uggghhhh I haaaate conflicts with neighbors

So sorry to hear this, NL. Been there, done that, put up a stockade fence on that side of the property. (Which my idiot neighbor promptly backed into and broke three slats.) Anyway, I totally understand that you want to :argh: and you know, maybe it'd be therapeutic to throw some stuff around--get it all out!

I say take the high road as best you can, even though it's apparent that your neighbors are totally in the wrong about this. Why do you have to keep YOUR dogs tied up and they don't, f'rinstance? Your phone message informing them that their dog was on your property will definitely give them pause, but with "people like that", it's a sure thing that they won't own up to it--it'll just make them more indignant (saving face).

When you're feeling more peaceful, do try to send waves of pink light their way to calm things down. Warning: it will be HARD TO DO. Don't do it till you're feeling forgiving. This may take years. :evilgrin:

[northernlights]

8. thanks MG

the last time I sent pink light of gratitude to someone I was boarding my horse with, she fed him breakfast lunch & dinner all in one meal and colicked him. :wtf:

I must have awful energy, because when I direct loving light to people, too often I seem to attract rocks thrown my way. x(

Hopefully I'll be gone *long* before I'm feeling forgiving. I *really* need to sell this place soon! I hope somebody really mean and hateful buys it. Maybe a pitbull breeder who plays Barry Manilow reeeelly loud day and night :evilgrin:

[MorningGlow]

11. This might not be any consolation, but...

sometimes it does take a long time for wrongs to be righted. In the case of my neighbor, it took two years. When he and his three monstrous children were at their worst, Mr. MG asked me to "get rid of them". He knew very well that I couldn't do that ("harm none" and all)--he was daydreaming of their house burning down, which of course I didn't condone, but I could completely understand from whence the sentiment arose--but I did do some cord magic to unbind them from the property. I knew it was going to be a tough thing to pull off, because the dude has NO money and is living there rent- and mortgage-free. It was his childhood home; he said he bought it from his parents, but I think they just gave it to him. (Maybe they moved out to get away from him... :rofl: ) From a practical standpoint, unless the place did burn down (and that would have been an improvement to the property), I couldn't figure out a way he's ever budge.

So without any specific outcome in mind, I did my cord magick over 9 + 9 days (9 to create/knot, 9 to unbind/unknot) and...nothing happened. Then nothing continued to happen for two more years. Mr. MG said my spell didn't work. During moments of insecurity, I was inclined to agree with him.

Then last summer the ambulance was called to the house twice. Both times it took the oldest child, who's 13, to the hospital in nonemergency mode; the second time I saw her sitting up and wearing an oxygen mask while they rolled the gurney out to the ambulance. I never found out what was wrong, but I suspect she may have asthma.

And then we saw the children going into the house one evening, and the oldest child was lugging a big suitcase. I thought she was coming back from soccer camp or something, but instead she was moving out. All the children moved out. To this day I don't know the exact reason why, although if the oldest girl does have asthma, it must be hell to live in that house--most of the windows are sealed up with plastic sheeting on the outside and stuffed with pink insulation (with mold! I can see the black spots!) on the inside, and I don't think this guy is the best housekeeper in the world. Plus I heard she was in trouble academically--not to mention she has an entire pack of skate punks following her all over the place, and for a stretch of time last spring, on any given afternoon after school they had the run of the house, including in the girls' bedroom. Probably was a culmination of all those things. I also don't know whether they're now living with their mother or their grandparents, and I don't really care. They're only at the house on rare occasions (and they still manage to cause trouble on those occasional visits ugh), but it's a whole lot quieter, even if the dude is still living there.

So my point is maybe you'll get your peace, just not immediately. But when it does arrive, it's delicious.

Oh--and about your pink light--I don't think any pink light sent in sincerity could cause bad things to happen! Just imagine what could have happened to your horse if you HADN'T sent light. Could have been much worse.
:scared:

On edit: speling

[I Have A Dream]

7. I'm so sorry that this happened, northernlights.

Why can't neighbors act neighborly? Where did we lose our sense of community? :(

I'm visualizing you and your little guys surrounded by protective light and am asking the Universe to help to permanently alleviate this situation. I'm also sending energy to help you to ground.

:hug:

[northernlights]

9. thank you IHAD

:hug: :hug: :hug:

[Sienna86]

12. My thoughts

Northernlights, your neighbors' behavior seems unjustified and unacceptable. I am concerned though, that there is so much negative energy out there, so much anger and angst, that people are acting out in extreme ways. Is there a way to take care of yourself, your dogs, and your property without inviting further bad behavior on the neighbor's part? I will send calming energy your way and will envision it surrounding you and your dogs.

[northernlights]

13. Well it was their car!!!!

I cannot imagine the childishness and spitefulness (aside from the sheer cruelty) of driving into somebody's driveway and trying to run over their dog because it dared to set foot on your property, after being lured there by your own dog. It's just stunning to me.

But when I walked the dogs before leaving for work, there was a light gray compact parked in their driveway. Maybe a coincidence, but I doubt it.

After dicussion with my farmer-friends at work, I'm visualizing their bull in my back yard. A phone call to animal control. And quite a few freezers, not to mention local pantry, filled with pasture-fed beef.

[Why Syzygy]

18. Metaphysically

there is no difference between you visualizing their bull butchered and her trying to run down your dog.
Metaphysically. Thoughts are things.

As usual, it boils down to "Mirror Mirror on the Wall" (show me myself).

[northernlights]

19. I did not start visualizing butchering their bull until *after* she tried to mow down my dogs

I had no argument or beef with them until AFTER she tried to hurt them.

It had never occurred to me to call animal control when their bull wandered into my pasture, any more than it occurred to me to call animal control when their dog came over here last fall and attacked me. My dog ran him off each time, and that was the end of that.

So "Mirror Mirror on the Wall" most certainly does not apply here :eyes:...unless I find her bull in my pasture again, in which case it WILL be a matter for animal control.

[hermetic]

14. Oh, cripes

:hug: to you NL.

[japple]

15. Sending calm energies to your neighborhood, NL with a request

to the Universe to keep this from escalating into something worse. Hugs to you and your canine, equine family.

[OneGrassRoot]

16. Peaceful, harmonious, calming energies added to this from me....

as well. Thank you, japple. :hug:

:grouphug:

[PuraVidaDreamin]

17. You know...

Many of your stories cured me of the urge to move Downeast.

xoxo

Stay Strong

Be Safe