hawkeye08
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If you don't like noise, how do you feel about light pollution? we have a neighbor that has a bunch of outside lights on 24/7. We used to enjoy stargazing, but too many lights now...
Sunday noise
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toppop52
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I have 2 outside lights at opposite corners of the house, they stay on 15 watts, go to 60 then 90w depending on range of motion. So unless something triggers them they are no more than a glow to see how to get out the door. They can be turned off or set in any number of combos. I like star gazing too!
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We live 400 yards from a larger airport and 400 yards from an extremely busy rail corridor.... but its the tree frogs that keep me awake! :laughing:
Leaf blowers are annoying, but its a necessity in our heavily wooded area. What isn't a necessity, is raking the leaves to the street and burning them. We get free leaf pickup paid for with tax dollars three times each fall!
Leaf blowers are annoying, but its a necessity in our heavily wooded area. What isn't a necessity, is raking the leaves to the street and burning them. We get free leaf pickup paid for with tax dollars three times each fall!
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Speaking of Sunday morning, we have a church a mile and a half down the road to " town ". Every Sunday morning at 10am the Bells start ringing, it is beautiful. After they are done, you will hear a mower or something start up, rarely before. That is the America I love.
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For some reason, from time to time, my 3 dogs will find themselves in a crisis that works like the planets lining up. one or more of them will have a caching choking cough, and one of them will throw up....then another will either wake us up demanding to go outside or just have an explosive intestinal issue. The are the noises I hate the most because they mean I am not sleeping, I'm up cleaning up after stupid dogs.
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Yeah, we have normal cat noises. Then we have that special cat noise that means "There's gonna be a huge furball on the carpet if you don't get up and move me in 5 seconds!"
For some reason, every cat or dog we've every had thinks it has to run from the hard floor to the carpet to barf!
For some reason, every cat or dog we've every had thinks it has to run from the hard floor to the carpet to barf!
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daugen
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marvelous. In my last house a nearby church had carillon bells and it was lovely to hear them ring.
A breakfast is ready ringing for the angelic host.
(for those of you who have responded to a bell being clanged for meal time)
I have a big bell on my back porch and I clang it every once in a while at lunch if I put a pizza on and am sharing it with a helper.
They always seem to know what that sound means!
it would be funny if one of the neighbors showed up too...
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Would be high on my list also. The "new" neighbors in Virginia (suburbs, 1/4 acre lots) now have a beagle that will bark for 5 minutes straight if a leaf rustles. I refuse to complain because they had a beautiful dog (looked part pit bull) that scratched my 27 yr old son and they put the dog down.
My neighbors in Mississippi have several dogs they keep chained in their yard. They used to routinely start barking at anything a little after dark and would keep it up for hours, long after SWMBO tried to go to sleep.
The owners were rarely around during those hours.
I think I broke the dogs of the habit by going out early in the morning and making enough noise to wake the dogs up. They would start barking and wake the owners (but not SWMBO who was sound asleep) who would come out and yell at them to be quiet. Then after about 10 minutes I'd mistakenly bump a trash can and set them off again.
This went on for a while. By waking the dogs and the owners all just after dawn for several weeks they seemed to get tired and would rarely bark late at night.
N80
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I live in town. Old houses, all close together. Backdoor neighbor had a yappy little dog of some sort that would just bark. No provocation. Rapid high pitched bark. Hours at a time.
Literally. And you could hear it indoors over the TV or music. We like to eat dinner on our back porch and the dog would make it so unpleasant that we couldn't.
Owner was an older lady. We had mutual friends as is the case in lots of small urban areas. Nice lady. Maybe a bit of a drinker. Maybe a little dementia setting in.
I finally went over there one day to introduce myself. We got acquainted and I told her if shed needed anything to just call me. I brought up the subject of the dog and she agreed to put the dog inside whenever it started barking. This worked pretty well. sometimes she'd leave it out there longer than I liked and I'd just call and tell her it was time to let the dog in and she'd do it.
On the other hand a couple of neighbors down the street almost came to blows over an incessantly barking Pekingese and the police ended up getting involved and there are still hard feelings. The dog owner, was in the wrong of course. In my opinion there is not one single reason on earth a dog owner should allow his dog to bother his neighbors in any way. It is rude and inconsiderate.
I have a new 8 month old Lab. He has a tendency to bark. He stays outdoors some. I will do whatever it takes to break that habit. Shock collar is being ordered at this moment.
Now, out in the sticks things are different. Dogs that bark a long way off or that I cannot hear inside my house are not a problem. In town, different story.
Literally. And you could hear it indoors over the TV or music. We like to eat dinner on our back porch and the dog would make it so unpleasant that we couldn't.
Owner was an older lady. We had mutual friends as is the case in lots of small urban areas. Nice lady. Maybe a bit of a drinker. Maybe a little dementia setting in.
I finally went over there one day to introduce myself. We got acquainted and I told her if shed needed anything to just call me. I brought up the subject of the dog and she agreed to put the dog inside whenever it started barking. This worked pretty well. sometimes she'd leave it out there longer than I liked and I'd just call and tell her it was time to let the dog in and she'd do it.
On the other hand a couple of neighbors down the street almost came to blows over an incessantly barking Pekingese and the police ended up getting involved and there are still hard feelings. The dog owner, was in the wrong of course. In my opinion there is not one single reason on earth a dog owner should allow his dog to bother his neighbors in any way. It is rude and inconsiderate.
I have a new 8 month old Lab. He has a tendency to bark. He stays outdoors some. I will do whatever it takes to break that habit. Shock collar is being ordered at this moment.
Now, out in the sticks things are different. Dogs that bark a long way off or that I cannot hear inside my house are not a problem. In town, different story.
