Saw a bowling ball on Ebay just like yours... vintage wooden bowling ball The owner thought that this ball was over 75 years old. The ball has a circumference of 21." The approximate weight of the ball is 12 pounds. There are two drilled holes. There are a couple of minor cracks in the wood and a couple of nicks. $9.99

I think that was my post but I can't find it now...My friend and I have done a garden themed sale for 2 years now and had tags we made up on the computer with a cute, funny, tongue in cheek, informative bit of info for each one. Well, until the last crazy day when we realized we had more than we thought and not quite enough tags made up and maddly started hand-writing them! We also sent out great mailers and made sure everyone signed our guest book. We are planning our next one now! Actually I post under another name on the "other" T2T site and we have commented back and forth in the past...who could I be??!!

I don't use deer repellent, but I do use rabbit repellent. The best one, IMHO, is I MUST GARDEN. It smells good, is natural, and lasts a very long time, even through rain. I can buy one $25 jug each year. It's made locally here in Chapel Hill, but I have no affiliation with the vendor.

I got a bit of a chuckle reading the original post and the follow-ups. I see two sides to the story and I have been on both sides. I think that some communities go way too far in trying to regulate what a person may, or may not, do within the confines of their property. I also think that some people go way too far in what they "ask" (without asking) their neighbors to put up with. I live in an older (20 years since construction) upscale neighborhood. Until the recent downturn in prices most of the homes around me were in the approximately half-million dollar price range. The neighbor behind me has two untrained dogs that bark and growl anytime I go into my back yard. The dogs have essentially destroyed the yard and have the run of the lowest level of the house, the patio door is left open year round. The front of this house is set back from the street and has no outward signs of the dump that is the back yard. The neighbor to the west of me has a RV parked behind a fence but it is still clearly visible both from my house/yard and from the street. They leave all their garbage, yard waste and recycle bins in an area that is clearly visible from the street. Their garage hasn't had a vehicle in it for years. The neighbors to the east of my house have two teen-age children. Sometimes they will be playing and making noise, especially bouncing a basketball. They usually have no less than two vehicles in their driveway. For the past week there has been frequent sound of an air rifle being fired. South of me and adjacent to the eastern neighbors is a county greenbelt. The neighbors had planted ivy long ago and it has overgrown into my yard and into the greenbelt where it now grows over my fence along with blackberries. And guess what? I live with it all. I don't cut my grass as often as it needs because the only one that can see it besides me is the neighbor behind me with the torn up yard. I still have some dead scrub trees from a windstorm of a year ago in my yard. I haven't had my (single) vehicle in the garage for years but neither have most of the people in this area. But except for my car nobody can see any of my yard so its unkempt condition is of no consequence to the community. It would be wonderful if we could still live as they did generations ago, with the closest neighbor five miles (or more) distant so that nobody's individual lifestyle would clash with their neighbor's lifestyle. But we can't. The original poster had some legitimate beefs in my opinion but they also had some pretty rigid standards they were trying to impose upon neighbors that were there before they moved in. I think there is definitely room for compromise on the part of all.