Entry 12 : Neighbour

 We've two papaya trees (at the moment of writing), one in our courtyard and the other on my father-in-law's front gate. The image of this papaya is the one taken by my father-in-law front gate. 

This tree has grown too high for us to reach for its fruits. We have to stop this tree from producing more fruits, so we've to cut off the leaves, leaving the fruits to mature on their own. When the fruits are ripe, we pick all of them and cut off the branch to a reachable level.

My neighbour saw our effort and volunteer to help with the tree cutting. This neighbour resides in front of our house, with rows of three other residence building. Then we've next door neighbour on the left and right of the house. There is a large stream behind our house, which has been converted into a large cemented drain and beyond that is a house by the rear. This means our house is surrounded by residential building in every direction we look. That sound daunting, more to unnerving.

The thing is if we want our neigbour peace-loving, cooperative, helpful to us, then we have to be just the same to them. Our house has the most trees and plants in this cul-de-sac. We make sure that the leaves from our plants do not drop or fly over our neighbour's plot. They have pets. But, I don't hear their dogs making irritating barkings. We've proper parking spaces. I see our neigbours have friends dropping by sometimes but there has never been any parking intrution. We all do our part to make sure our neighbour have peace of mind and vis-a-vis. 

Things we should do for our neighbour and they to us.

Keep noise down.

Proper pet-control.

House guests do not impose on neighbours parking space. 

Respect boundary/fence/wall-do not grown plants on common fence, do not place flower pot on top of common wall, make sure the leaves of your house place do not flood the negibour's plot. 

When staying on multi-storey apartment, to make sure the laundry do not drip below, do not flood the common walking corridor when watering potted plants. 

I suppose these are basic manners we expect from our neighbours, friendly environment and peace of mind.

Haiku

My papaya tree

too high for my hands to reach

looking up drooling.