Water Gardening: Neighbor kids...., 1 by HollyAnnS

HollyAnnS wrote:
Elf looks like your ponds are coming along very nicely despite your set back and physical hardship. Going through something like that must have been so very very hard and I'm sure it will take you quite a while to get back to where you where before the accident. Your fish pond looks very much like my box pond. I will say I haven't had many problems with my neighbors or their children. Not that there haven't been a few bumps here and there over the years but mostly not. It can get pretty nasty though when you have problem neighbors. We live in a rural area but do have a small neighborhood and I have been here 34 years and raised my family here. My children are all grown and those neighborhood children that I had a connection to have also grown and gone. The new young children didn't know me, but I usually give them a Hi when they go past and one day when I was out cutting some Lilac branches a group of them came walking by and I offered them some Lilac blooms to take home to their Mothers. Next thing you know a few more came up and asked if they could have some, too. Those children are now teenagers and we never have problems with them. I know that not everyone wants to befriend their neighbors and some neighbors you just want to stay as faraway from them as you can. A little bit of kindness can go a very long way, but then I can retreat to my backyard and get my peace and privacy when I want. You can't always do that.
Here is a pic of my Box Pond.