It's been a gorgeous weekend here, with a little rain in the middle of the night last night. That storm brought very interesting thunder...it was a low, distant rumble that didn't stop. Usually, thunder comes in "waves," but this was ongoing. Strange.
We got a little bit of yard work done yesterday, but didn't get out on the bikes as hoped for, because the tire pump I brought from up north is having issues.
My car was recalled, and Dave took it in last week for the recall work, and they did an oil change and tire rotation for it, too.
Seems they also disconnected the a/c. Yeah, it was warm enough here to need auto a/c for a couple of days. SO...Dave is taking my car BACK tomorrow to have them fix whatever it was they effed up.
That's not at all inconvenient... *rolling eyes*
The house two doors down from us has been renovated and is on the market.
They had an open house today, so we went to look. It was definitely built at the same time as ours, with the exact same brick pattern on the faux fireplace. Bigger rooms in general, and totally updated, they want $113K for it.
We were the only ones who showed up for today's open house. It's horribly overpriced, compared to what we paid for this place.
Next door, we have a new neighbor who has 2 dogs that now live in the back yard. One of the dogs barks incessantly when she goes out at night. Which she does almost every night. This has not been fun. I haven't slept through the night for a full week now.
We have some dog bark deterrent devices coming from Amazon that should be here tomorrow.
We used one of those in the past for the dog on the OTHER side, and it seemed to help. (that dog doesn't live there anymore)
It's activated by the sound of the bark, and it then makes a sound inaudible to humans that hurts the dog's ears.
It's easier to do that than to have to confront a new neighbor, and maybe have animosity between us. She's not home, she doesn't KNOW he barks literally without ceasing....and hopefully, she won't know we've installed these devices.
My alarm goes off at 5:45 in the freakin a.m. every weekday. I can't be kept awake until midnight every effing night by a barking dog right outside my bedroom.
Nothing much else is going on.
Finally cooking the last of the Christmas Eve ham into a big pot of soup today....it's Easter, so I guess it's appropriate.
We got a couple of quotes on what it would cost to put up about 50 feet of privacy fence. Holy shit. It's ABSURDLY expensive. I had no idea. Completely overpriced and out of range for us.
We'd LIKE to eventually be able to use our back yard, you know? It's one of the reasons we bought a freakin house!
A friend of Dave's son does concrete work, and he's going to pour a patio for us. Eventually, we'd like to put a deck and a hot tub on the concrete pad.... and we'd like a little bit of fence to shield the area from that house next door with the 2 dogs...but jeez.
Gonna have to win a freakin lottery if we ever want to be able to use our back yard.
It's aggravating. Can't have anything nice unless you have millions of dollars.
Yeah, I guess I am a little frustrated by what we learned from those quotes. At least the concrete work will get done. And the neighbor can watch us hang out on our new patio.... whatever!!
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