Thank you Jesus for our new neighbors

The Po-Po are moving in two doors down!

WOOOHOOOO!

What an answer to prayer! You see, in addition to the cat do-do problem we also have some neighbors behind us (sort of) that are quite problematic.

The problem is that they play music in their back yard for hours at a time at levels that even I CAN HEAR inside my house. Yep. Inside the house, even inside our bathroom that is in the center of our house that doesn't have any outside walls, or even a window. How's that for loud?

Now I like to hear my neighbors having a good time outside. I like the sound of kids playing and I like the sound of splashing in the pool...but what I don't like is the fact that the loud music wakes up my child while napping.

Now you know that music is too loud what that happens. Also, the music is so loud that we cannot have conversations outside nor can I talk on the phone inside the house- yeah, it's THAT LOUD.

Isn't that crazy? At this point I bet many of you are asking: Doesn't anyone go talk to these people? They probably don't know it's that loud. Well, maybe they don't know it's that loud...to give them the benefit of the doubt, maybe they are deaf.

Yeah, I walked over there and explained it to them one afternoon. They turned it down for that one time only. Yet about 4 times a week the music is blaring from their house. Our house has to be a few hundred feet from theirs, give or take a few cement walls, trees and shrubs and we can make out every word. What am I supposed to do, get Sarah up, walk two blocks and ask them to turn it down EVERY OTHER DAY?

NO. Besides, it's well known that they threatened the mail carrier when she said something they didn't like. Like I'm going to carry Sarah over there and subject us to that level of insanity? No way sister. And yes there is an investigation by the Post Master about that one.

So we started complaining to the police...and I wrote a letter to our neighbors stating they are violating the city municipal code and it must stop. That's all, no emotion, just the facts and the quotes of the city code on unnecessary noise.

I'm gonna have Alan walk me over there to deliver it. After that, every single time I can hear their noise inside my house I will call the police (within reason, it's not like I am going to call over the noise from the lawn mower). It seems stupid that we have to call the Police about it, but it's all we can do, and it's what the officers we talked to advised us to do. Weird, huh? But it's my job to make sure my child can sleep in our house...and if they violate my child's basic needs then I'm gonna do whatever it takes. Whether they think it's stupid or not. I don't care. I don't interfere with their child's basic needs and they are not going to interfere with mine. Period.

Thankfully the house the police are renting is RIGHT BEHIND the noisy neighbors.

WOOHOOOO! I am going to bake the police officers next door some cookies.