Tonight, my husband noticed there was a back-hoe in our neighbor's driveway. Turns out they are embarking on another mystery home improvement project involving a rented back-hoe with an annoying BEEP BEEP BEEP reverse alarm. Last week, our other neighbors started having their roof redone. Why does this count as "news"? Well, we now are flanked by construction projects and they are consecutive in timing, meaning we have hammering, beeping, chain-sawing and engines running for fifteen hours a day. The roofing starts at 8AM. BANG BANG BANG...whirrrrrrrrrrrrr...ZERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR...boom....The evening project gets started at around 8PM.
I think there might be a break from five to seven every evening, but I can't be sure since that is during the witching hours when my kids are screeching and talking in my ears. Add to that the sounds of dinner sizzling, dishes being done, and incessant requests for more food, milk, etc, and I think a mack truck could do donuts around my house during those hours and I wouldn't hear it.
Never has a person been so annoyed with such industrious neighbors. It just makes me feel so darn lazy for just working for a living and taking care of the kids and making dinner. The neighbors with the roofing project aren't necessarily too industrious. They 1) hired someone to do the roof and 2) desperately needed it. The other neighbors though...they take the cake for being the most energetic, hard-working people on the face of the earth. OK, that might be a bit dramatic, but seriously. Since they moved in a couple of years ago, they have done MANY, MANY projects. They do almost all of them themselves, not hiring tradespeople, and they do them AFTER a full day of work.
They are like Energizer bunnies. When it snows, our neighbor shovels his driveway and then moves on to OUR driveway. You might think this is great, and ostensibly, it is, but it makes a person feel very lazy. It's amazing how one can feel so much more lazy when they have over-achieving neighbors. I just want to say, "Pipe down over there. Go take up a hobby or something." A hobby other than showing up your lazy neighbors would be nice.
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I loved your description of loud construction noise all day...and then you have no idea if it's quiet or not in the evening, thanks to your angelic children :) We have a better situation in that one neighbor is a retiree who works on his yard approx. 18 hours a day (no joke), so we look terrible in comparison, but luckily the other side is a busy family who are always talking about their plans for a "Japanese Zen garden" but in reality have a huge pile of weeds, rocks, and debris, so we look good. As long as they stay around, we're in good shape!
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