Can I Rant?

I don’t like hearing loud noises for long periods either. Most of the time it is pretty quiet here, but occasionally it gets crazy loud.

Everyone here makes lots of noise early in the morning.

I know how it is to hear noise that you’re not “supposed to hear.” Generally, it doesn’t bother me that much. You may not believe this, but when they replaced my roof I was able to roll over and go back to sleep while they were on my roof.

The older guy next door loves his riding mower and grass trimmer. He even mows in the Winter when the grass here is brown and nothing is growing. (A couple of years ago he was mowing the snow as it fell! I woke Pretty up so she could see it, too!) He mows his yard and my back yard every 4 days. (I have an electric mower and it gives up by the time I finish mowing the front and both side yards. Then it takes 4 hours to charge the battery again.) I mow in the afternoon to avoid dew on the grass so the back yard doesn't get mowed at the same time as I mow the front and side yard. He started mowing my back yard because he doesn't like seeing the grass looking ragged back there. He doesn't charge me for it so I don't say anything. Most of the time I'm asleep when he mows and that's fine... It doesn't wake me up. But every 4 days? (He's retired and bored.)

You should be here. My cat Freddie sleeps all day and then in the late afternoon starts caterwauling loudly for quite a while and I have no idea why, I just shouted Would you shut up Freddie? He became quiet and now has started again,

That is a good question since I am sure that the maintenance people have a lot of work to do in a short time which causes them to work long hours.

I have learned to block stuff like that out

@celticeagle I had neighbours who only mowed their lawn after dark because it recovered more quickly that way (!!!). And in summer it doesn’t get dark till 11pm So just as we were going to bed their high-pitched, whiny lawn mower started up for half an hour.

I hate that sort of thing as well! Three of our four neighbours have the same gardener and I have never seen him actually plant anything but he loves his power tools, he has a mower, a hedge trimmer, a power saw, a leaf blower and a strimmer and he just uses them all one after the other. If he isn't in one neighbour's garden he's in the other. Drives me mad. I even wear ear defenders so I can concentrate - if he looks at my window he can probably see me sitting there glowering!