Halloween is coming up. The weather looks good, so it should be a cracker. I won't be participating, because I'll be elsewhere in Vermont where it's Halloween all year long.  Ever since the annoying a-hole from Kentucky built the monstrosity across the road, in what used to be tranquil woods, the barn has been festooned with skeletons and other crap all year long. If this environmental vandal is going to destroy the native habitat, and our peaceful space, then he's gonna have to look at  my ghosts and goblins every time he drives past.

You might think I'm exaggerating but but this guy is truly annoying. The first thing I knew about his project was a building permit that appeared across the road one day, with the wording that any objections to the project be directed to the city council. The only problem with that was the window to do that had expired two weeks prior. So the builder put up a sign that was effectively a "fuck you" to everyone who didn't want this  crappy mcmansion on the street.  I called the city anyway. "There's nothing we can do". 

Then followed a summer of total destruction of the forest, complete with noisy excavators, tractors, chainsaws and God knows what. The sound of ancient trees being ripped out of the ground all day long really starts to get on your nerves, to say the least. The end of all of this destruction and subsequent equally noisy construction, revealed this bland, suburban dwelling that would look more at home in a bland, suburban suburb. 

It's an eyesore and a blight on the landscape. Not to be content with tearing up all the trees, this idiot then built a massive driveway which resulted in the front entrance to our place being turned into a swamp. All the rainwater which used to flow gently down the ditches on the side of the road, had now turned into a destructive torrent because of the fucking huge three lane driveway that this moron had contructed to get in and out of his dumb, ugly house.

But he wasn't finished yet.

There was a semblance of what was left of the nice looking woods across the road. It wasn't even in front of his house. The dopey idiot didn't like that, so he landscaped it all and left a few miserable looking trees isolated in the "lawn" that he had created, that nobody wants to see, ever.     

This is the same guy who kept bugging me the year before to let him buy some of my land, presumably to build a house there. I told him "no, not interested", in no uncertain terms, but that wasn't enough.

One day I got an unsoliticted email from a realtor asking me on behalf of this fool if I want to sell him some land. What the fuck? I already told you no, asshole. Leave me the fuck alone. 

I hate this guy. Are you beginning to get the picture now?

Happy Halloween.