The Neighbor Is Going Bald

It is not always easy to get along with neighbors even when they live several miles away. But lately I have been having a bit of a feud with a rather close neighbor and it seems that this one is going to end up bald and it may be because of me.

You see I have had an upstairs neighbor move into my work area recently. In the beginning we both got along peaceably and basically ignored each others comings and goings. I didn’t disturb the neighbor and the neighbor didn’t disturb me as I stacked wood in the cradle and wound the plastic wrap around to secure bundles of firewood before stacking onto pallets. I could work several hours at a time without even hearing a peep out of the neighbor.

But the other day things changed.

I began to get the feeling that the neighbor was no longer happy sharing living quarters with my work space, even if I was only using the space three or four half-days out of the week. I had been bundling firewood when I noticed a bit of fluff flutter down from the upper reaches of the tall barn. After another hour or two, I noticed more. Before I was done with work for the day, the concrete floor was littered with detritus that the neighbor had systematically dropped from above and let fall into my work area.

When I went out to the barn the next day, the floor had been cleaned up and no mess was evident from the event I categorized as a rude fit the neighbor had thrown the day before. I didn’t even see or hear the neighbor and assumed I was alone to begin work. Once into my rhythm, I again began seeing debris once again floating down around me, when I looked up the neighbor artfully hid behind beams and columns in the barn structure in what I believe was an effort to avoid confrontation.

Again at the end of my shift, the floor was littered with debris. This time when I left the barn, instead of heading back to the house, I circled the barn and sneaked in from the front where the bulls have their manger and a tall stack of hay bales. I hid behind the bales until I saw the neighbor picking up the litter from the floor and hauling it back to the roof living area.

It looked like the neighbor was restocking the larder for the next days battle. This time I snapped a few pictures and was able to pinpoint the launching area. It was the nest of a mud swallow that was full of feathers that the bird had been using to line the incubator for upcoming eggs. My working below the space had made for an easy target for the swallow that was working furiously to weave her own feathers into a soft bed. I fear that bird will be bald before the eggs are deposited.

Now I can’t be certain that I am the cause for the debris field each working day. But I notice that not a single feather is dropped when I am not working and that the floor gets cleaned up as soon as I leave. So if you see a bald swallow flying around, its probably just my upstairs neighbor.

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