Mosey;
I just looked at this site and first reviewed homesteading. When I saw the post on yard lights I had to register immediately to be able to reply. How I wish you were my neighbor ,a brother in the love of the dark and I suspect peace and quiet. I have moved to be rid of the hideous lights that some people impose on their neigbors. To all of the posters with the all too common excuses for the lights.
1. If you have no control mechanism for a remote light you can get an X10 plug in control for very little$.
2. If you feel you must have the lights be considerate and shield them so there light swath stays on YOUR property.
3. I'll bet those of you getting ready to ridicule the last statement have shades on your living room lamps so the bulb doesn't shine in YOUR eyes.
4.If you are afraid of all that moves go ahead to the retirement village, there will be plenty of lights and secured areas.
5.Those of you living in pristine areas of darkness may lament the loss of that which you seem to not care about, when a gas station or industrial facility builds in your area and spoils YOUR world with some deluxe sodium vapor lamps with no shielding so you may have the benefit of the glare. 6. Ever notice those persons with the lights are generally the same ones with the dogs that bark from dusk till dawn?They also guard their right to allow this to take place.
7.I would never knowingly inconvenience my neighbors with lights, noise or anything that intruded on their world ,but then I am a GOOD neighbor.
8. I have found, unfortunately that the rational approach with the neighbor does not usually work, and when you retalliate in kind with light, the same neighbor can't take what they love to give, ending in a stalemate of civil problems.
9.The next time you are driving and see an oncoming police, give him the brights-don't let up. When he pulls you over use all the same justifications you are now thinking and then get back with me.
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