Hello,
I hope that all are enjoying this Saturday evening. I know I posted this morning, but I just cannot wind down and relax. So I thought that I would post because I didn't say everything on my mind in my earlier post.
Last night it started to rain. It was not a down pour at first, just a normal rain shower but it did get heavier as the evening wore on. I enjoy sitting out on the patio in the evenings. It is cooler and usually fairly nice.
The weekends are usually busy with our backyard backing right up against a volleyball sand court and we have a lot of people taking advantage of the nice weather and friends and usually a friendly game here and there, but lately it is not the volleyball court knocking on my last nerve. It is the neighbors.
Several months ago a couple across the way, in another building. I think that it is building 13. While our patio's are facing the volleyball court, Building 13 has 2 bedroom apartments.
Now one of those apartments has dogs. They had a beautiful Irish Setter, a blonde labador and the Irish Setter was gorgeous, No dount about his beauty but this dog had the weirdest sounding bark I had ever heard before. Kinda like a loud pitch half bark. The other dog, rarely barked at all and he is just as gorgeous.
For some reason this dog would just start barking. If he saw a person he would bark, another dog he would bark and if a service person, like the landscapers would come he would bark until someone would take him inside. But soon they would open the patio door and let them back out and he would again bark if he saw a blade of grass move.
Suddenly their was three dogs. A gorgeous German Shepherd who was very energetic and he would also bark. The lab just minded his own buisness and was very chill, but not the other two.
Now I had not seen the first two dogs. They had not been around for the last few weeks and I had wondered if the couple had moved, but now there are 3 different big dogs there. Then the the lab and the Irish Setter are back. Do they have someone visiting? Are they running a pet care service out of the apartment? I don't know. But my daughter told me that most apartment complexes here have a 2 dog policy.
Now building 14 has a top floor apartment. Their patio faces the volleyball court as well and they have a large dog. He is not a barker but he is a big dog. He does not have a place to run and even use the bathroom. I hope that the owners take him for a walk but for some reason I doubt it.
These people are driving me insane. During the morning, my quiet time, I enjoy having my coffee out on the patio and reading the news or other articles and before my second cup of coffee, the dogs in building 13 start barking and this man takes his cue from them. He takes his tv out to the patio and while I do not mind that, I do mind that he turns the volume up so loud that I can hear every word that is being said and he really must like westerns or war shows because the sounds are loud. With his tv and the dogs I just bring my coffee inside and thankfully our apartment is pretty soundproof.
Now those same people have another guests or two. They have a toddler and while I know that it is a general rule, kids can be loud, this child is really LOUD. He or She screams... repeatedly. Over and over again and again.
We have a noise curfew that noise needs to be down by 10:00pm Sunday through Thursday and 11:00pm Friday and Saturday nights. Last night the child was still screaming at 1:30 in the morning. The child was up early this morning and I tuned out the screaming until I finished my coffee and then I just gathered my things and came inside.
We are not complainers and usually live by the rule, live and let live, but the lack of respect is really aggravating, and I am just so ready to move and tonight there was a group of people playing volleyball, three loud dogs and a child screaming. I missed out enjoying the evening. I missed the morning and the evening, and it is 9:30pm and they are on their patio with the adults playing loud music, at least it is good music, and they all are very loud, and the kid is still screaming. I keep hearing someone trying to soothe this child, but he or she is not having it. I bet that he/she is just not in their usual environment and routine.
I talked to my sister today. I asked her, was my kids like this? Were they this bad? She told me no, that I had really good kids. She did too. All of her girls were so sweet and they played quietly.
Now when my babies were little I did not do a lot of baby talk to them. I explained things to them as my husband and I would go out to eat often and we would get compliments of people telling us how impressed they were with our family. We talked, we laughed but we did not have melt downs, temper tantrums or the like. While getting ready to go out I explained what was expected of them. I reminded them that we would leave and go home, and they knew that I meant it. I don't understand some people who do not even try to work with their kids. They either ignore them or they pawn them off on someone else to care for them.
We cannot take care of everyone, but we can take care of our own and make sure to hold bad behavior accountable.
Rant Over. I am going to log off and try and get a little sleep. Sweet Dreams.... BB
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