tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2974406546323301344.post3093460651683042996..comments2023-04-08T06:06:13.055-07:00Comments on Notes from the Pens: Memories from Orchard HouseAya Katzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07830585801297506770noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2974406546323301344.post-17802384087389253392016-04-14T20:04:33.362-07:002016-04-14T20:04:33.362-07:00Hi, Julia. Bow can go outside now, but he is confi...Hi, Julia. Bow can go outside now, but he is confined to the outer pen. Yes, I do want to make arrangements for him to be able to roam five of my ten acres, when I can afford to. <br /><br />The children on that street know the house is not abandoned. I am there often. I just don't live there. Also, my yard man lives on that street and keeps the grass mowed there. But he also has a day job, so there is no one to keep an eye on the house 24/7. But that would also be true if there were tenants who worked. So I think part of the problem is lack of respect for the property rights of landowners, as opposed to people who live there. That must have been true in the case of the house you saw vandalized. That boy knew the house was owned and not abandoned, but he went ahead and broke the window, because he did not respect property rights. Aya Katzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07830585801297506770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2974406546323301344.post-38976226380812783402016-04-14T18:15:33.798-07:002016-04-14T18:15:33.798-07:00I wish Bow was able to go outside. Maybe one day i...I wish Bow was able to go outside. Maybe one day if your book sells more copies you can afford to build a larger barrier to keep people off your land. Yes, kids are often destructive when they think a house is abandoned. I was really upset because a ten year old boy I knew threw a rock through a house that had been built in the 1930s, and started stealing items out of it. I did not know what to do at the time because I told him not to, but he had a history a stealing things from people, and tresspassing into houses. I felt bad for those people because they usually were only able to come up to maintain and clean the houses every couple of years, they lived far away, and when they came back they would have found a broken window.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11147781152448695481noreply@blogger.com