On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:03:32 GMT, "Warren"
wrote:

But all these retaliatory things aren't going to do a lot of good unless
you get your jollies by being at war with the neighbors. Just as you
want to use your pool, they probably want to use their deck. Next year
they might be posting here asking for advice on what to do about the
screening you put up.

Did they build it only to look in your yard? Is there any other reason
they might have built it? Is the view beyond your yard beautiful? Or are
they just voyeurs? Have you talked to them about why they built the
deck, and how it makes you so uncomfortable?

Ultimately you may find that you need to either alter the way you use
your backyard, alter your attitude about being watched by these people
in your backyard, or move.

Way too reasonable, Warren. :-) I agree completely. I can't imagine
building a deck strictly to view one neighbor's pool, but who knows?
There are plenty of movies about feuding neighbors involved in
sucessively more silly (and expensive) counter-measures for
often-forgotten original causes. Living with neighbors includes, well,
living with neighbors. They object to your landscape/practices; you
object to theirs. It's the price we pay for not being solitary
animals. My neighbor on the left is very messy, but doesn't object if
I clean up spill-overs. My neighbor on the right is awfully tidy, but
doesn't try to tidy me up. Much. I'd rather have friendly relations
with both than my lawsuit-insured vision of perfection within my
property lines.