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My neighbors kids is making a huge amount of noise – daily!

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My neighbors kids was making so much noise jumping around in the house next door yesterday that our furniture was vibrating! Can you believe that a little kid can make that much noise?

I’m at my wits end as to what to do about the noise the next door neighbors two year old is making. she’s slamming doors, thumping around and screaming and all the noise and vibrations are coming through to our house.

There must have been a total of 6 hours of noise yesterday. Not just a little bit of noise at a time or at low levels, no … it was noise that was loud enough to make my dog start barking and to be heard over three window air conditioners in my house! Oh and the couch that I sit on often was just shaking for a good part of that.

I’m starting to wonder if she’s making enough noise and vibrations to start making cracks in my walls. We have a triple light switch cover on the wall between our two joined house and I just noticed that it has a big crack in it that wasn’t there a week ago and the wall seems to have a crack too. I wouldn’t doubt it’s from this kid.

I’m so frustrated from all the noise. We’ve talked with her parents at least five times since the noise started in February and it got quieter a few times but it’s back up to unbelievable levels again and in our last conversation with the father on Sunday the father said – well, she’s just a two year old. Well .. next year she’ll just be a three year old .. and bigger and nosier … I’m scared!!!! I’m starting to think we’re going to have to call the police when the noise starts at 7 am or gets really excessive during the day.





I’m not getting any sleep

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Sigh … It’s the weekend and you’d think that a person would be able to sleep in if they wanted to, wouldn’t you? Not around here … not if you’re me.

My neighbors toddler has been making a ton of noise next door since February. I don’t think I’ve had more than about three hours sleep a night since sometime in February. Believe me it’s really taking a toll on me. I mean, I have chronic pain and Crohn’s disease and no arthritis in my knee (who knows it might be Rheumatoid arthritis I still have to find out) so I should be getting a minimum of 8 hours sleep, not a scant three hours!

My problem, is that the kid starts crying or screaming at anywhere from 5 am to 6 am and then she bangs around the house next door (which is attached to our house as we live in a semi detached) yelling and thumping her feet all morning. Then, just when she’s going to go down for a nap at about 1 pm she often starts screaming at the top of her head and runs around their house slamming doors! Of course I can hear every scream and every word and feel all the vibrations from her running around and slamming the doors. It’s AWFUL! Everything that goes on in the morning is repeated throughout the day sometimes up until Midnight. This kids parents don’t even seem to have her on a regular bed time schedule.

We’ve talked to them about all the noise and they simply don’t seem to realize how noisy their kid is. Either that or they are totally deaf. They have tried to get her to be quieter, but in the last two weeks it’s gotten a lot noisier again. Now that the weather is nice I wish they’d just take their little girl out for a good portion of the day and tire her out. There’s a fantastic preschool playground that she could play in now that it’s summer time and I’d bet she’d sleep better at night if she burned off some energy.

Sigh … Maybe they’ll go for a two week vacation this summer and I’ll get some normal sleep while they’re gone. That might be the only way I’ll get some sleep if their little girl doesn’t stop making so much noise.

Battling my roses for our new fence

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I barely have any skin left on my arms! Why? Well … I’ve spent quite a bit of time in the last few days moving my big rose branches around in my backyard as my neighbors have a new fence put in. Actually I guess as we have a new fence put in, because it’s the fence we share that’s causing me to have to do all this work!

The fence is pretty much done now. I’m not sure that I like it, but there’s not much I can do about it now. There were two guys working for the fencing company and one of them was fairly helpful and polite to us when we asked questions but the other guy was a real jerk. He definitely should never talk to customers!

If I wasn’t so upset by the whole fence going in situation (our neighbors just kind of thrust the fence thing upon us instead of asking us what we wanted and letting us be part of the decision making process) I would have enjoyed watching the nice guy work. He was fairly good looking and I guess building fences helps build muscles .. or else he used testosterone gel because he sure had a well developed body! Me on the other hand …. as I said in the beginning .. I probably didn’t look so good covered in scratches from all those rose branches! It’s going to take a week to heal.

I think I’m going to try to sleep in tomorrow if I can. I’m so tired. I’ve been working outside for three days in a row on all this fence and garden stuff … I’m exhausted.

Who needs an expensive gym membership when they have an active excited dog!

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I was just outside on the front lawn talking to our next door neighbors. We were trying to talk with them about the fence that they are putting in since one part of the new fence is on our shared property line.

I brought my Labrador Retriever outside with me when I was talking with my neighbors – just on her leash, not with her prong collar as I usually do and man, did my arms ever get a work out with all her pulling! If I did that for half an hour a day I wouldn’t need to take any muscle building supplements ever! LOL

You see my neighbor was doing some work on the foundation of his house and he’d pulled out a rose bush and cleared some maple twigs that had landed on his lawn and my dog could see them from where we were talking so she kept pulling and pulling while we talked … she also kept pulling whenever someone would walk by with their dog. So I got quite the workout. Who needs an expensive gym membership when they have an active excited dog!

How was your weekend

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It’s the end of a long weekend here in Canada and all around neighborhood I can hear people letting off Fireworks for Victoria Day. It’s driving my dog nuts! Try telling an excited Lab that all those noises are normal. Uh huh.

On Saturday the weather was really nice so my husband and I ran around and got a few things done and did some work outside the house, however the weather wasn’t so nice on Sunday or today so we ended up being stuck indoors most of the time. We did try to get outside for a bit earlier today but it suddenly got windy and the roses that we were working near started whipping into us and injuring us. I guess we can’t win! LOL

There wasn’t even anything good on TV on the weekend. For some reason a couple of the channels that I like to watch during non-holidays love to run reruns of old shows over and over again – just one show – no variety for a whole day or even a whole weekend on a long weekend .. so if you’re stuck at home and there isn’t much on TV it can be bad. I think one of the shows had something about a Texas truck accident lawyer I sort of fell asleep at that point. Yep .. exciting long weekend for me – huh.

I guess we would have been out doing more interesting things but I feel down the stairs last week and really hurt myself. I bruised my lower back, my left buttock, my left leg and left arm and my neck and even my jaw hurt – after a week. So I’m not in very good shape. I think it will take me about another two weeks to get over that fall.

How was your weekend? Better than mine I hope!

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