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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:navy'>I need advice
from people.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:navy'>The owners of the
house next door had a mason remove loose mortar between bricks up two thirds of
the wall (from kitchen to the second floor) in the breezeway between their house
and mine.  (The breezeway is what I call the narrow space in the back between
two houses.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:navy'>When I got home I
found a fine—and very noticeable—brick/mortar dust on everything!!!
on the second floor.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:navy'>I had left open three
windows facing the breezeway.  <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:navy'>At first, I just
thought I'd deal with it and clean it up.  But in cleaning it up,  I’m
seeing that it is in soap, floors, towels, books, banisters, stairs, furniture,
plants, clothing—it’s just everywhere!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:navy'>So I have
stopped trying to clean it up.  <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:navy'>I want to stay
on good terms with my neighbors, of course; I don’t know them really well
at all but they are nice people.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:navy'>What would you
do?  Go to the neighbor?  Find the mason/worker?  Shut and clean?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:navy'>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:navy'>Christine Gray <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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