I've had a hell of a month.

Started off with enormous family drama leading to a major depressive episode, and then got hit with bronchitis thanks to a multi-week binge of my neighbor taking down his kid's old tree house and disposing of it

by burning it

bit by slow, agonizing bit

and the smoke keeps pouring over into my yard

I got horribly sick, and I still can't breathe right

I get so tired, even when I haven't done anything

I'm so fed up with this nonsense.

....wow that's so few lines.

oh my god???

it looks really petty and lame to complain about when i lay it out so small like that.

oh hi cami

hello

my neighbor is really making me unhappy

as an asthma-haver who gets bronchitis constantly I am angry in solidarity with you

I got him to at least stop burning the wood before noon but like.

look at this

hhhh

he's got that huge stack of floorboards

and all these big honking support beams

like when it's smoke season here it makes a huge difference in QoL and it sucks shit that there's just one guy making it Smoke Season in your neighborhood

not to mention the slide

and i like the smell of woodsmoke, it's a pleasant seasonal perfume

but this is....so much

right but not-- yeah

He's already burned the walls and the roof

brother just take it to the wood scrapyard like a reasonable person

which was so caked with moss and licked in both cases that I always used to think "that looks super dangerous to go up in, but I can fully imagine a little woodland gnome living there"

so something about that situation

is fucking up my breathing something awful

he's just taking it all and cutting it up into bits and burning it in that little saucer-shaped metal firepit thing

I think you can see it in the photo

lmfao christ

oh my god at least have a bonfire??? oh my god

it's like three or four feet across and you wouldn't think it would make all that much smoke

but it's all day every day for the entire month of may, almost

the wood being damp and mossy will make it smokier for sure

im tired

this is insane

im tired all the time

been to two doctors

this is literally the most insane way a person could dispose of a wooden structure

im about to just go like

hey can i pay for this to get hauled away

just to make you stop

but every time i think about having that conversation i want a nap

I'm sorry friend

a friend of mine is a marine and he's like "I'LL TALK TO HIM FOR YOU" and im like

maybe calling in the armed forces on the guy is a bit extreme, but thank you

maybe hold off for now

uuuuggggghhhh

anyways everything is harder when you don't have enough oxygen

did you know that cami

does the asthma community know about this

someone should tell them

I think you just blew the problem wide open

I will say that when I first learned I had asthma and used an inhaler for the first time before exercising I was like 'OH THIS IS HOW PEOPLE DO THINGS??'

oxygen! who knew!

but anyway I hope he stops soon. I hope he stops burning what is essentially a small cabin in his costco firepit

i might genuinely sic the marines on him if this goes on much longer

LMAO MY MOM JUST TEXTED ME

he's apparently just balancing one of the big beams across the pit to try and burn it in half

amazing

im not going out there, fuck the outdoors

NOOOO

im staying in here with my fancy covid-era air filter

spare box of replacement filters my beloved

man I hope you've been getting rain over there

it rained a little bit last night

I will say someone could probably rat this dude out to the fire dept

and it's meant to rain again this evening

ok that's good

I'm just imagining someone pulling this shit on the west coast in august or so and burning down the whole county

honestly, i could call the city on him

he's probably not allowed to do this much smoke production

no and laying the beam across the firepit is a massive hazard

like does he understand that it will break apart while still on fire

it just feels kind of like a step too far to call the po-po on this guy

yeah i think that's the point, he's trying to use fire to break it up because it's too thick for his power tools or something

maybe?

!??!?!?!??!

what kind of shitass powertools,

idk, knowing my mom she's probably already talking to him

whew

she doesn't go White Suburban Mother for very much, but

she will do it on occasion

proud of her

it's a power we have to reserve for only the most important situations

you have to ration that shit

like when someone is smoking out the whole neighborhood

right

like this isn't calling the cops on someone having a party for a single evening

like, don't go firing a shotgun at a fly, that's how you turn into Karen from the HOA

right

this is an actual health & safety hazard

u wait for the right target

it's important to save up your venom bc the more you distribute karen bites the less potent it is

it has to really work when you need it

yeah, I'm not an advocate of calling the cops for just anything but this has been going on for a month, it's having demonstrable impacts on neighbors' (your) health, and it's a fire hazard

Entirely reasonable to get the authorities involved with this!

lmao

My mother is in his yard this morning with a print out from the municipal regulations

I might yet live to see clean air return to my life

Oof, I understand the breathing issues. A lot. I hope you recover quickly!

LMAO the fire is like three feet tall and there’s so much smoke, I’m so done. I’m gonna have to make the call.

Do it

He’s piled all this green stuff on the fire pit

Trimmings from his bushes

It’s so much

It’s so smokey

I honestly just think the worst part is you’re he’s burning it directly under the remnants of the structure he’s taking apart

It looks super dangerous

I’m not being a jerk about this right

OH MY GOD

GOTTEM

no he's an idiot you're not being a jerk

this is wildly fucking irresponsible

My doctor called so I missed what happened

Apparently my ongoing cough and shortness of breath are super concerning and she wants an X-ray

So I get to do that now

Blegh

Neighbor chopping up his woods with an axe

Watches him suspiciously through the gap in the fence

Got my eyes on u

Oh

Inhaler my beloved.....

I got an xray too

Hopefully all is well

fuck ya neighbor

nothing turned up unusual on my xray

Which is like

glad my cardiopulmonary situation shows no evidence of diseases and all

but it doesn't indicate a solution to my fundamental problem

YEAH that....doesn't...help

Day 3 of no smoke

I am already feeling so much better