Hysterical Society

You could take up historical cannons...

only $325! at http://bronzecannons.netfirms.com/black_powder_cannons.htm

just go up on the rooftop and do it up like this guy from Mary Poppins! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqZFYHM8g38

Brotus7 wrote: I'm renting and the lease is only month to month, so I can jump ship if it gets out of hand.

Your renting and just decided to put a dish on the top of a property that you don't own. Did you "forget" to ask permission from the owner of the property? I wouldn't let you have it either if I wanted to keep my property historically accurate. Why did you not ask permission. It would have avoided all these problems.

(Rant) I hated when renters would watch HGTV and decide to make "improvements" to to our properties.(Rant done)

pilotbraden wrote: If the neighbors don't like a blacksmith operation try some old timey hide tanning.

Hmmm I do leather work as well...though I have not gotten into home hide tanning. Though around here it would be easy to get hides with all the hunters and knowing my neighbors they would actually be into helping me with it lol. Well except those on the other side of the street.

I live in a funny area where you have older homes on one side (nothing newer than built in the 60's or 70's) and then across the street is a new development that just got put in over the last 3 or so years. The people that live on the opposite sides of the street are VERY different kinds of people. My side is mostly rednecks and older folks and the other side is mostly younger and more yuppie wanna bes. I can fit 4 of their lots on my property and still have room for my 1500 sq foot shop and my lot is one of the smaller ones on our side.

I have not tanned hides but have been told that it is an aroma one does not forget

In reply to pilotbraden:

That would be an understatement

In reply to pilotbraden: OSHA, fire dept, EPA, homeland security(joke) would be all over the property if you did that. There's a REALLY STRONG reason tanneries were located AWAY from village centers/towns. They make paper mills smell sweet!

But, seriously, mounting the dish on aforementioned moveable pole would not make it a permanent addition to the property/building. I think you've got a really got shot with that approach. If not, welcome to being a slave to Comcast.

In reply to xd: There was already a dish on said roof.

Hide the dish, on a pole, on the backside of a bird house.

I'd jump ship. Unless the house is a good enough deal to make up for the cable. But yeah, I have to agree. As a renter you probably should have checked the rules first, regardless of what was on the house already. Still, the real monster here are insane HOA.

pilotbraden wrote: I have not tanned hides but have been told that it is an aroma one does not forget

Ever been to Morroco? The tanneries are centuries old, and often in the center of town. The primary fluid used to cure them is camel urine..

You do the math..