Our next-door neighbor has installed a second-story security light on the side of their house that now completely lights up my backyard. Think the harsh white light that’s in a Walmart parking lot at night. Our houses are fairly close together and our yards aren’t huge, so there is no place in my yard that isn't illuminated at least some. It’s driving me crazy because I miss my darkish backyard.
However, I can’t even say anything. Some of you might remember last year I posted about some neighbors who have threatened to sue us because rainwater was going into their yard and flooding their house. These are them. DH went to the city to ask what our responsibility was and found out that we didn’t have any. i’m not even sure what they wanted us to do besides dig up our yard. They accepted this response and started in on a project of tearing up the backyard and adding drains and then adding this addition. Back in the spring, the city water department came out and we found out the source of all the excess water. Apparently there’s an underground spring that originates at the house behind ours and up the hill. So when it rain, the spring overflows and comes to the surface, leaves that yard, cuts through our neighbor’s yard to the left, comes through our yard and then ends in their yard. So I’m not really sure who the responsibility lies with as far as that goes.
But the end result is our relationship with these neighbors has been lukewarm ever since. DH says he’s not going over to say anything to them only to get cursed out. Lol So i’m just sitting here stewing and staring at this bright light every night. And ranting here. If there’s a silver lining, our bedrooms are on the other side of the house. So while the light comes through our living room and kitchen windows, it doesn’t disturb our sleep.