Not Very Neighborly

Skullduggery is afoot in Hillmomba! Never a dull moment for the placid Hillbilly family who tries to do right in the neighborhood. You may recall that we even spent over $600 for a Halo 5 Collar and subscription to keep Pepper from wandering and being a nuisance. 

NOW WE'RE THE BAD GUYS AGAIN!

Not on purpose. It was brought to our attention. By the across-the-road neighbor who seems to see Pepper at every turn, even though Pepper is contained within our property boundaries now, and the Halo data shows no escapes.

Anyhoo... Neighbor Gal (let's call her NG) did not directly accuse Pepper of anything this time. Nor did she accuse US. She was just posting on the Facebook page of our enclave, as she is wont to do. Farmer H told me about it when he came in Tuesday evening.

"NG put on Facebook, 'Did anybody notice any strange cars out here this weekend? Or know how this trash got in our yard?' The closer I looked at the picture, I could tell it was MY trash! In a Walmart sack. I bring it home from my store and put it in our dumpster. So I stopped to pick it up, and answered her, 'NG, it's my trash. I guess maybe the trash people missed the truck as they were throwing it.'"

"Wait! That's too much for me! WHERE was the bag of trash?"

"In their field, right across from our dumpster."

"So you had to crawl through her wire fence?"

"Yeah. I went through it and picked it up. I don't know how long it was there. The last time I brought it home was Sunday. I put it on top of our trash already in the dumpster, and closed the lid. I don't know if it just got there today from the trash people. Or if somebody put it there and she just now noticed it. The bag was ripped and the stuff was out around it. Like candy wrappers and stuff. Tootsie rolls. Because I have snacks for my customers."

[Sure! All those CUSTOMERS eating their snacks in Farmer H's SUS2.5, and putting their wrappers in his wastebasket lined with a Walmart bag!]

"So it COULD have gotten there on Sunday evening after you got home. The dogs are always barking up towards the road. Maybe people take a walk, or their kids are messing around on the side-by-sides. I swear several times I've thought I heard a car running in our driveway. And that one teenage boy who has the motorcycle is kind of a terror. People always have guests up in here on the weekends. I could imagine somebody taking that bag out and tossing it, just to stir things up. Like when the Bad Hay-Baling Lawyer's kids picked up the political signs you had in our yard, and laid them down."

"Yeah. That one kid is a mess. He lives in Buddy's old house. But it could have just been the trash guys missing the truck when they tossed it, and too lazy to pick it up."

"Maybe the trash guys think they don't have to pick it up if it's in a Walmart bag."

"No, they have always taken it before."

Anyhoo... the fact that OUR trash was in HER field makes us suspect as Not-Heaven! Even though she didn't accuse us, and Farmer H picked it up. He didn't TELL her he picked it up. But later she "liked" his comment that maybe it was the trash guys. I think mainly NG just didn't want to think ne-er-do-wells were targeting her with trash.

What can we possibly be blamed for next? That's NOT our fault, heh, heh!