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January 23, 2004
Yay for Redneck Neighbor!
You can still see the Redneck Neighbor page!
My neighbor is a RNIT (that's Redneck Neighbor in Training). Nowhere near as stupid as the original, but still. Here's some examples from our personal Xanadu:
1. He began putting up new siding on his house in Nov. 2002. This is Minnesota, so it's not usually a good idea to wait that late in the fall, because you never know when it's going to snow. He tore down the siding and began putting up new siding, but completed only one side of the house. This is a small single story A-frame house.
All winter, the rest of the house sat exposed to the elements. I shudder to think of the heating bills.
Spring comes and he finishes putting up the siding. Only, he decides to put brick on the front of the house. The bricks sit in stacks....and sit...and sit. Sometime in August he does half of one side of the front. October, he does the rest of that side. Currently, it is about 90% complete. Really! All he needs to do to finish is about two courses of brick at the top of the right side. Can you imagine being that close to finishing a project and leaving it? It's no more than 15 to 20 bricks total.
This is the same guy that built a complete garage in the back for his boats and completed it in two days.
2. He keeps a table saw outside, exposed to the elements all year round. Occasionally, he comes out and cuts something at 11PM at night.
3. He has a freakin' floodlight as a back-door light, and leaves it on all night. If I wander into the kitchen in the middle of the night, it's practically as bright as daylight.
4. There's a mound of dirt, 4 to 5 feet in diameter and 3 feet high, on the property line between our yards. Last summer, his wife(?) decided the mound of dirt would be a god place to plant stuff. So she planted a half dozen random plants in the top of the mound. They frequently left the hose running on the mound all night. Irrigation!
I'm sure there's more. I know, not as exciting without the pictures, but a reminder that we all know a redneck neighbor.
Posted by Laura at January 23, 2004 08:06 PM