I think I might come to hate gardeners

[pecunium]

At the very least I hate gas powered blowers, and other tools.

The neighbors' gardener has been working for the past 30 minutes. For that time, I've not been able to hear anything but the growling of his tools. The television, gone. Conversation, impossible. Even trying to use headphones isn't possible. The noise is too loud.

That's from more than fifty feet away, and with the doors and windows locked.

Yes, it's mid-day, but still.

Add the marching band at the high school practicing at 0730, and the various peals of the loudspeakers (which are a good 1/4 mile away and sound like Miss Othmar, but last longer), and there are occaisional ideas of applying a still life, a la Woodpecker.

{this all ignores that for the past two years they've knocked all the baby plums off the trees on the edge of our property}

Comments

[cjmr.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean! My neighbor spent all day Wednesday using his leaf blower to 'rake' his back yard. I could have raked it twice or maybe three times with a rake in the same amount time. And we could hear the thing on the other side of the house, even on the second story, with all the windows and doors closed. Two weeks ago his lawn service was here using a plug aerator (which at least was quiet) and they cut our underground phone/internet line.