neighbors — Home and Garden Diva

New houses going up fast

There’s a lot of construction going on in my neighborhood. It seems that any house that used to be a bungalow is being purchased and turned into a two or three story home.

The house down the street, one that used to have very undesirable renters in it for several years, has been torn down and in it’s place two three story houses are going up in it’s place. Apparently the man who owned the former home has been trying to get permission from the city to rebuild there for years – and probably trying to get his renters out for that long too.

Anyway once he finally got permission and got his renters out it seemed the houses went up in no time at all. I think they tore down the old house in March or April and the new houses are up and just about finished already. There’s even signs on the property trying to sell the houses – I’m assuming at some future date when they expect them to be finished. Man that was fast.

Of course there’s still lots of work going. From my house I can see everything from Cement trucks going back and forth to back hoes and a used skid steer and several other pieces of heavy machinery. I’m just glad that it’s way down the street so I don’t have to hear all the noise!

You can tell it’s spring around here

by The Diva

It’s that time of year again when people start working on their houses. Whether inside or outside, it seems spring is the time to either renovate or repair the house or yard or add something new.

I’ve noticed a lot of changes in my neighborhood as I walk around with my dog. Some houses are getting painted or having a new fence put in. Others are having some landscaping done. Still others must be having either some home repairs done or some renovations because I can hear hammering or sawing as I walk by or I see those big bins in their driveway for reno materials.

One house that I walk by regularly just got a new metal garage put up and it’s kind of cool looking. It has a sign on it that says – metal residential buildings and I guess they’re the makers of the building. No idea how much that would cost but it’s going to last for a long time I think.

Anyway you can definitely tell it’s Spring around here, there’s lots of work getting done! I’ve been working on my garden and getting some work done in the house – with more to come … How about you?

Noisy neighbors kid

by The Diva

My neighbors kid is making noise again. I swear I’ve barely slept since Febuary! Honest. I think that’s when the woman next store took her toddler out of day care and started working at home and of course that’s when all the noise began.

The kid is obviously going through the terrible two’s and oh how terrible they are and to make matters worse the parents have told us that they don’t like to say no to her because it makes her reaction worse. Duh … well times a kid has to learn what no means. So since February she’s been screaming at 6 am, thumping her feet at all times of day, slamming doors and just making a ton of noise and to top every thing off her parents didn’t seems to realize that we, in the adjoining house next door, could hear all the noise right through the walls.

It’s awful. We’ve talked to the neighbors a few times about the noise and for a while things got better. Now I think that the noise got better because they were putting in a fence and they wanted us to go along with it and now that the fence is in they don’t care any more so they’re letting their daughter run wild again. Sigh … so much for my sleep. I think I’m going to buy a tent and maybe some Sierra Designs Sleeping Bags and then I’m going to camp out in my backyard. Maybe they’ll see the tent and get the idea and maybe I’ll get a better sleep.

Strange observations about my neighborhood

by The Diva

It seems like all of my neighbors, the younger ones anyway, are working in computer related companies. I didn’t realize it until recently, but the more I talk to different people in the area, I realize that a good portion of them work in software or make computer parts or sell computer parts.

Strange.

Even my next door neighbors. The lady works at home on her computer … like me, and her husband mentioned something about working with megameeting web conferencing software. I don’t know exactly what he does, something to do with management at his company I think.

Even I work in computers – sort of. I mean, I have several blogs and since I’m home on medical leave I do a lot of writing! Come to think of it … maybe there’s a lot of bloggers in the neighborhood too, because there seems to be a lot of people at home during the day. Strange stuff.

Noisy Neighbor Syndrome

by The Diva

I feel like I’ve barely been getting any sleep over the last few months. Actually I don’t just feel like I haven’t been getting much sleep, I know I haven’t been. I have noisy neighbor syndrome.

What’s noisy neighbor syndrome you ask? Well I’d imagine that you can guess what it is if you try. We live in a semi detached house so our neighbors house is attached to ours – just on the other side of ours. In other words there is a common wall between our two homes and likely due to the fact that our neighbors have hardwood floors we can hear all the jumping and running around that their two year old daughter does every single day from 7 in the morning until sometimes as late as midnight.

I have chronic pain due to Crohn’s Disease and other illnesses so I don’t sleep well to begin with and lately it seems that whenever I am just about to fall asleep my neighbors daughter starts up with her noise. So yeah … noisy neighbor syndrome … Anyone know how to remove dark circles ’cause unless I start getting a good sleep I think the dark circles under my eyes are going to become permanent.

New houses going up fast

You can tell it’s spring around here

Noisy neighbors kid

Strange observations about my neighborhood

Noisy Neighbor Syndrome

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