Notes from a small town girl....

I don't know if that is the exact quotation but that is the jist of it. Quite a few years ago our neighbour won quite a bit on the lottery. One of the things he did was put up a new fence between his property and ours. It is a great fence, just the right height. We then built our fences perpendicular to that fence so that everything is nicely enclosed. Sounds great. Well it was until that neighbour moved and a new one came along. The neighbour from hell. Three years ago he built an addition to his house that required a variance from the city to allow him to come 6 inches closer to the property line than he would normally be allowed. He approached me about it very nicely, said what he was proposing, how he would minimize the impact on our property. Long story short, he got his variance but didn't do what he said he was going to do. Needless to say we weren't happy and told him so. Shouldn't have done that as words were exchanged and we haven't spoken since except through some letters in which he said he was going to relocate the above mentioned fence to it's right spot on the property line. We told him to go ahead but not to step on our property to do it. So far he hasn't moved the fence but he did build a short railing along the edge our driveway which is the exact boundary of our property. It is a bit of annoyance but it has forced me to use my mirrors when I back up so that is a good thing. Anyway, two weeks ago I returned home after a stressful day, long drive under difficult conditions and I found garbage including cigarette butts on my front lawn. The only people on my street who smoke are my neighbour and the woman who lives next to him. This was the second time in less than a week that garbage from the woman (her name was on a prescription bottle we found on the lawn) Anyway, I wasn't up to a confrontation with either neighbour so I got my wheel barrow, a shovel and proceeded to scoop up the butts, dirty tissues and cooked pasta noodles . I then dumped them between the two neighbours garbage cans on their lawn so that they could pick them up. Guess I shouldn't have done that because now the neighbour from hell has put up another little railing next to our driveway so that it is now when we drive up we have difficulty opening our vehicle door which we have to do in order to open the gate to access our yard. What should we do?? I really don't want to talk to these people but yesterday when I knew the husband would be at work I decided to phone to ask her the reasoning and perhaps to explain where I was coming from. She wouldn't answer the phone - she must have call display. It is such an awful feeling to live next to someone with whom you have such animosity.