Recent content by that neighbor lady

First, I do wish people would stop using the name Karen like that. It's so sad. I know so many kind and struggling/disabled older women named Karen -- you'd have to, it used to be one of the most common names around -- and they've dealt with so much hardship and given so much to others, and...

In theory, I agree with you (except about the last part -- the noise is additive, not a replacment-for). Living in close quarters means negotiations and compromises, though. If growing your own food means a neighbor can't get enough sleep to function well, and do her own work, or the noise is...

I must say, that doesn't sound too bad -- unless she's not properly miked up, squirrels fighting is about the same, and it's quieter than the odd cat having a yowl. I can also imagine that more than one at it and trying to turf each other out wouldn't be great, though, and I see what NatJ's...

That is an awesome idea. I expect nothing from the neighbors, but -- quail hens are just kind of warbly, right, not cluck-and-bawky? (It's been a while.) And you get such tasty, pretty little eggs. Nice for kids, too. Gosh, I sort of want some myself, now. I wonder -- again, just thinking about...

Wow! I really appreciate the array of responses here. Yeah, if it were a "try it and see" sort of thing -- and if they hadn't already proven to be so "our kids are perfect, how dare you" about noise -- I'd be open to it. I mean I grow a good deal of my food, get my electricity from my roof, I'm...

Hello! I am that one neighbor lady who works nights and really just can't have a lot of noise next door. I've been in my house for 20 years and had lots of neighbors, including neighbors with dogs and young children, but never had a chronic noise problem before the current neighbors, who also...