Beginner Gardening: Help my neighbor is a creeper Plant ideas for privacy hedge?, 1 by LakeLivingRos

LakeLivingRos wrote:
Ha, WeeNel - when I first told my husband about the masterbating thing the neighbor was doing, I didn't really know if that was what he was doing or not.. (I think I just didn't want to admit it?), so I told my husband I wasn't certain, but that's what it looked like.. I sort of laughed it off and my husband made a joke about how he would walk around naked and flash the neighbor with his hairy buttcheeks to prevent the neighbor from doing it again! I kept telling my husband about the staring, but I swear whenever my husband comes home the neighbor either immediately leaves his house or hides (maybe goes to his basement or something?) as my husband almost never sees him. It's very very strange.. My husband hates the neighbor due to all the hastle he has caused.. and when I asked my husband about a budget for covering the fence he told me I could do whatever I wanted to feel comfortable (as plants and fence things are expensive unfortunately). The bamboo is SUPER heavy, and I couldn't carry it, so my husband worked really hard to put it up the day I brought it home (I got it from Lowes, where I had to have 2 people load it for me). It was POURING rain and my husband just worked all day putting it up! I am glad you tell your kids that, because it is so true, creeps get away with stuff because it's inappropriate, but the victim questions whether they are just overreacting or not (at least, that is what I felt like).

I did look up the neighbor to see if he was a sex offender, which he is not, (thank goodness..). Although, there is something weird that he does.. because his name pulled up all these business that he will be a director of or something for two years and then the business dissipate.. One of them for example that has a license now is called "Gold Medal Ventures" registered at some random fake address.. he is just all sorts of sketch..

outlaw - thanks! I really do feel better! It was an instant weight that felt lifted off my shoulders once the bamboo was put up! AND, I saw the porch light go on at the neighbors house, and heard the door close, but I didn't even see him enter his house! The other thing that is great, is the bamboo background allows me to not just have evergreen hedges, and I have always wanted a smoke tree, so I am going to have so much joy when I plant that!! I won't have to worry about being able to see him creep on me in the winter when the tree becomes a stick!

plantsforpeg - I have been working with the neighbors about cleaning up the neighborhood. It's interesting, because SeaTac (the city I live in) is only 10 square miles, where most of it is taken up by the SeaTac Airport (the main airport you take flying into Seattle). 3/4 of the lake is surrounded by single family homes, but the other 1/4 is a big public park (where they are installing a water park for young children), condos, and they are building a hotel on the lake too. Other than the few single family homes around the lake, most of the city is hotels and commercial business, or high density residential (multi-family, duplex, apartments etc). Our house, besides the mobile home park on the lake, and the neighbors house are by far the "dumpiest" houses on the lake (although I am working on making mine better with fixing it up ourselves). The community is trying to work on ways to reduce crime, because there are A LOT of low income families with children. SeaTac (which used to be unincorporated king county) 10 years ago had the highest rate of prostitution in the country, and the police force changed policies and started treating the women as victims, not criminals, and now there are much less women on the streets. It is crazy, but crime exists everywhere.. even in nice expensive communities.. my husband and I rented a really nice house in Normandy Park/Burien before we got this one.. where the street was a back alley behind a middle school. One morning (only a few months before we moved) I was biking with my husband to his work and then would come back home to shower before I went to work 2 minutes away (it was 4am) and when I came back police were surrounding my place because of this http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/hearing-impaired-homeless-ma... , just on the other side of the fence a homeless man was beaten to death (he ended up dying in the hospital a few days later). Maybe I just have bad luck with crime where I live though.. because the stuff that happens around me sometimes seems a little crazy sometimes.. this happened http://www.komonews.com/news/local/SeaTac-homeowner-shoots-w... when my husband and I were on our honeymoon.. which is only 1 block away from us..

I attached some updated photos of where we extended the bamboo further!