The neighbors on both sides of me and their barking dogs have caused me to create a counter-offensive that is an all-out war. I will not continue to lose sleep because of the noise of barking dogs continously yapping away all night long.
Apparently my letter got to the illegals on the east side today. I have made it no secret – I have been taking videos of those 2 Rotties over there barking like crazy during the day and night. Today, I was exaggerating that point on purpose – to let them know I am dead serious about getting this nonsense stopped.
It’s bad enough that I have to listen to this stuff during the daytime hours when I’m out there working on the property – it’s insufferable to be kept awake by it all night long.
I heard a lot of banging out there late this afternoon, is the point. They are apparently creating a fencing of some sort to keep those dogs away from my side of the property. I’m not positive of it – but – I haven’t heard those dogs barking since a few hours ago. This is, however, only a partial answer to the problem. It will stop them from barking at me and my dogs when I’m out there working – and yes folks, I do not allow my dogs to bark at them back – I have serious doubts it will do anything for the nightime barking. Only if they take those dogs indoors will that stop this nonsense.
On the west side of my property – the dude that has a used car dealership running out of his house and our street – also heard me. He is avoiding me at all costs. Actually, yesterday after I got home from work, a rank woman was sitting out there in front of his house. I asked if he – Randy – was there. She replied in a man’s voice and with sterness that he’s sleeping. I laughed. Out loud, too. I know this person, she is the devil’s creation. This woman is the epitome of drug use – meth – and prostitution. She’s in her 40’s, I’m guessing, though she could be younger and just looks older because of the meth use. Okay, I shouldn’t say she’s the devils creation, we are created by God – but certain of us allow our lives to be shaped by other influences that long depart from anything that could resemble God’s creation. She’s very crass, calloused and hateful. Basically, this is not the neighborhood I will be retiring in if I have anything to do with it. In fact, if/when the economy and housing junk recovers, I will sell this place as fast as I can dump it and move to a place that has normal people living in it. I have been eyeing several places now – the only drawback are sometimes abusive HOA’s that attempt to control and run your life.
Regardless, I made it “known” my utter contempt for his new dog to be out there barking all day and ALL night long, in no uncertain terms, and also that I am videotaping it and am prepared to file a complaint with the city. I have been looking for my neighbor out there for a couple of days now – he usually is sitting out front. Now? He hasn’t been out there and is in his garage setup, with the gates closed. I don’t really care if he wants to not be neighborly – he is hanging out with that convict from the other side of his house and they are a pair made in – not heaven, thank you.
That German Shepherd of his actually broke boards off the fencing on that side of the house that has wood fencing. There is about a 6 or 7 foot wide span of wooden fencing there, the rest is mortar block. The space of broken fencing is large enough for dogs to move in and out, I don’t wonder if there was a dog fight ensued while I was at work. I examined my Danes thoroughly and found no blood or bite marks, I cannot examine that dog because it is afraid of me and will not come close to me. It also shuts up when I yell at it to – SHUT UP!!! Oh, I know it was his dog that broke the boards and not my dogs because the remants of the fence were in my yard, not his, meaning it was pushed in towards my property.
I was going to repair that fence today but got busy planting trees and totally forgot about it. It is high priority tomorrow – a trip to Home Depot to buy replacement slats is in order. Actually, I would just go ahead and lay block for that area and finish off the block fencing back there, but that is a project in itself and I don’t have any way to get a pallet of block to my house unless I either rent a truck from Home Depot at $20 per hour plus whatever fees and taxes or ask my new manager if I can use the semi. I haven’t treaded those waters yet – my “old” manager let me use the truck whenever I needed to – which I didn’t ask very often so as not to abuse the priviledge.
The weather is absolutely beautiful, for a much-needed change. I opened the windows this morning and it’s stayed that way the entire day. I turned the AC on for about 10 minutes earlier to cool it down and that was it. Finally it’s beginning to look like Autumn – aren’t we in winter already? lol
I wrote another CL ad – the lady I saw once took my departure from not going out there because of the accident personally. I actually pleaded with her that that was not the case, but – she has moved on. So – no big deal. No emotional attachment, no loss. My latest ad was pretty informative – my style of writing there is no different than here. So far, one lady wants to talk in instant messaging, another wrote and said it was “way too much information” – the entire sentence she wrote me, and the 3rd was a scam. On the second, I replied with a similar one-liner, actually 2 words: “Your point?” She wrote back that it was way too much information and that it was a turn off.
I wrote her back and said that that was her opinion, thanks, please move on. Why do people even bother wasting their time? Does she think her sentence is going to change what I write in an ad? I figure to weed out the people that wouldn’t be interested anyway once they found out this, that or the other thing. Get it out there and that should do away with 90% of any responses that are based on a paragraph of an ad that is all of 2 or 3 or maybe 4 sentences long. Perhaps people believe in luck or fate, all well and good, I have no such feelings, not after 16 years of a hellish marriage. I’ll just give my info – enough to give a good view of who I am without getting TOO personal – and if anyone is interested, cool, if not, oh well.
I’ve had a couple of phone calls today with people interested in the room – but I could tell after the conversation that I was not going to be hearing from them again. It’s become a very competitve market trying to get roomies and I am thinking of reducing my rate by $25 to see if it will lure anyone. I am seeing rooms going now for $300 and even lower. I will not go that low. I just won’t. I am currently receiving $400 for the large room and $375 for the room the ex-Marine is in and am asking $375 for the empty room.
Umm, this entry has gone on long enough and it’s past my bedtime. The German Shepherd is out there barking – as always – and I am going to go out and take yet another video of it – I have to have evidence for the city’s prosecutors for them to be able to do anything about it I take 5 minutes of it at a time – the barking goes on, and on. I am amazed, though,that I am not hearing anything from the dogs on the east side. That’s truly a good thing – I wonder if it will last?
C’ya later.
ben