What does our neighbor do that annoys me? Oh goodness, don't even get me started!!
We live out in the country so most houses are few and far between, but we do have ONE neighbor across the road and a bit east of us. They are so annoying! The man has been married before and they were pretty much okay when his other wife lived there. Their kids were teens and no problems and they didn't have barking dogs.
She left him, he was alone for awhile, but a couple years ago another woman moved in. She has two daughters, maybe 10-12 years old. Then later we saw an older girl with them but not sure if she lives with them full-time or not. But the very first DAY her dog came running over here. Rather than walk over here (it's less than a city block away) she actually got into her car and drove over here calling her dog's name all the while. It would not listen to her. Kept running away. She finally drove home, then sent her two daughters over here to retrieve the dog. It didn't bother me too much, but it became a regular occurrence, and it would go into our big tool shed and there are things out there a dog shouldn't get into that could cause harm, or death (rat poison for one) so I didn't like it going in there. The girls would always say "sorry" when they had to come over and get it, but finally the last time I told them the next time it happened I might call animal control about it. They started doing a better job of keeping it in their own yard as it hasn't been over here, that we know of, in a long time thankfully.
They now have a toddler there too, I don't know if they adopted him (he's black) or it's the older girl's kid or what. But he and the younger of the two little girls are screamers. They can't play outside without constantly screaming. It's bad enough that when the kids are outside playing I don't want to sit on our deck that's on the east side of the house.
The man mows his lawn almost every night...for about 20 minutes. It's not a huge lawn, he could get it 100% done in an hour or less. But no, every night the mower starts up around 8:00 and he'll mow for just about 20 minutes. Annoying when we're on the deck. But at least he doesn't mow at 5:30 a.m., like the OP's neighbor did. Wow, that is really rude to do it that early.
Last summer the woman, or the older girl, would play music in their car every afternoon, and leave the windows down so they could hear it. If I was out walking, or if we drove by in the car we could see them sitting on their deck, on the steps. No chairs, just sitting on the steps, for hours listening to their music. The base was loud enough that we could hear it, INSIDE our house, WITH THE WINDOWS SHUT!! I am not one who likes confrontation so I never went over to ask them to turn it down, but I really wanted to. But I worried they would retaliate and do something worse so I just put up with it but I was glad when cold weather came and they stopped doing it. They've only done it a few times this summer so not that much of a problem. Last summer it was almost every weekday afternoon, but never when the man was home. Only when he was at work.
They must have had company the other day because there were TWO dogs, barking non-stop. A deeper bark which I thought was their own dog, then a shrill yappy bark that must have been from the visitor's dog. It went on and on for an hour. I finally shut the windows.
They have free range chickens, occasionally they have come over here. They are constantly being hit and killed in the road.
I'm looking forward to winter.
