I posted a few pictures from playing with the UC guys at The Oasis. Nice time.

Fence Update: Still just moving along, the Mayor stopped by once again today and was much more genial than usual. He had a copy of a letter from the city’s attorney to the City Council stating all the good reasons that the city should disregard our agreement and go ahead and do what they want to do. It starts out making it sound like the agreement he and the city forced us into accepting is nothing more than a few phrases thrown about and even those are pretty vague. Who really knows what they mean? Some choice quotes, emphasis mine:

“As it turns out, there is apparently a public prescriptive easement for a lane on the South side of the property.”

Seriously, if he thinks I don’t know what a prescriptive easement is by now…

“Further, the local water supply corporation has what appears to be an easement for a water line though the area on the South side of the property.”

Coincidentally we had just had the water guy out to tell us where we could put fence posts and he confirmed that the water line is on the other side of the street. But then again that is, as he says; “the area on the South side of the property.” …Or at least it appears to be.

“The City may have disclaimed interest in the remainder of the tract, however, it would not be acting for the public in general or the water supply corporation.

There’s a bit more stacking of conjectures upon the firm foundation of appearances of potential public good and then he concludes that a fence should be built, “however, it should not be extended into the prescriptive right-of-way easement of the public.”
But anyway. It turns out the sirens of the LH Bull.*?it were across the road videotaping my conversation with the Mayor. Weird. I guess they expected me to put him in a headlock or something.
I continue on with the firm expectation that they will, after all, comply with our agreement.