The In My Neighborhood Thread.... - Freeze-Frame Radio

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

The In My Neighborhood Thread....

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

JR, the house next to us is for sale.

Make ya a deal, you mow the grass, I'll blow/scoop the snow.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Jeremy Riggs wrote:

MzHartz wrote:

Jeremy Riggs wrote:
Directly behind me are the young couple who moved in two years ago and prompty replaced all their lawn with rocks and wildflowers. Not a section! Not a part! ALL OF IT! The ENTIRE lawn! Apparantly lawn-mowing is not something they enjoy.

Actually, when we buy a house, that's something we've considered doing. Brian refuses to mow grass at his own house, so I'd have to do it, and with my reputation for household chores, we'd probably have at least foot high grass before I'd mow it.

Refuses to mow grass at his OWN house? Where else would he mow it?

Usually it's the other way around and you refuse to mow grass when you rent.

Did he have to work for awhile as a landscaper or something? Something that turned him against lawn mowing?

No, he wouldn't mow if we rented a house either. He's a groundskeeper (as well as maitenence) for another apartment complex, so he only mows at work because he has to.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

WebGuy wrote:

JR, the house next to us is for sale.

Make ya a deal, you mow the grass, I'll blow/scoop the snow.

That's not a bad deal...

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

right now I just got in from the grocery store. On my block it looks like 4 or 5 seperate groups of people getting together to go to the ballgame tonight!! smile

firefly · Now, with 50% more Fire!

Well, I am new to my neighborhood. However, yesterday there were about 3 firetrucks and 6 police cars at the apartment across the road from me. I still have NO clue what was going on.

I have been here about 4 days now and I have yet to meet my neighbors. I guess that I should go next door and introduce myself. I am surrounded by men. The guy in the apartment next to me works third shift so I never see him. The guy in the house beside me works two jobs so I don't see him either.

CP · Lord of the Lair

my neighborhood is very boring. I live on a cul de sac and none of us talk to each other, just wave on occasion. We all just hang out in the back yards by the pool. I love picking fresh lemons off my tree and watching the palm trees sway in the breeze.

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

hey i just saw this weird guy who used to live in my building. I hadn't seen him in over a year. It turns out he moved into a place next store & out of the studio apt he was living in. Good for him.

He was picking through the garbage bin.

squonk · RetroMan

Well, my neighbors are all very social. (and enjoy some drinks) I'm hoping the Wednesday Night Gazabo is back. It's supposed to be primo tomorrow.
Bike ride to work? I'm debating it. Thinking of shopping at Menard's over lunch time tomorrow. Need some racks and crap like that. Might be tough on a ten speed!!!

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

We have a lot new neighbors that have moved in since this time last year. We have the really annoying ones that live right behind us. They are the neighbors that crank the weirdest music through their outdoor speakers......and I mean it's LOUD!!....you can hear it two blocks away! And they keep up turned up loud until really late at night....midnight or later.

Last summer a new couple with a little boy moved in right next door. They have 3 cats that spend the entire day and night outside. During the winter, the cats adopted my front and back porches as their home and commenced meowing all night long, which wakes up my dog in the middle of the night, causing her to start barking at them, which in turn wakes all of us up. furious

I've already spoke to them several times and have made them aware that their cats are a nuisance. I'm about ready to call animal control and have them pick up the cats.

Two houses down, which puts it at the corner, a new family moved in during the Fall. They never cleared the sidewalk of snow all winter long. Back in February the wife came down and asked me if I've ever received a fine for not shovelling....I told her no, but we always shovel. She was really mad because she wasn't getting her mail delivered and because the City fined her. Now that it's nice out and I've had our windows open, I can hear her and husband arguing all the time about all kinds of stuff.

I miss our old neighbors!!! cry

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

my across the street neighbor Greg and his mom are riding around on a new tamdum bike right now having fun. thats pretty cool.

On the bar where Pam died, one of her daughters taped a sign to the door "All I want for Mother's Day is justice. What is taking so long?"

that whole situation sucks.

Sparky · Phat Cat EL Presidente

I realize this was a few days ago but don't they have any sound pollution law in Michigan Sandy?

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

Sparky wrote:

I realize this was a few days ago but don't they have any sound pollution law in Michigan Sandy?

Well, the sound pollution law only applies to cars that are cranking their stereo systems beyond a certain decibel level. The only thing I can do about the neighbors who crank their music too loud is wait until after midnight (which is supposed to be quiet time according to our ordinances) then call the police and complain. With the cuts our police department have made during the past couple of years, this wouldn't be a high priority call for them which means they probably wouldn't even bother coming out about it.

But I am going to start calling the police more often and reporting it. Maybe if I call enough, they will come out.....this has gotten ridiculous the past couple of weeks!! I think my next door neighbor will also be calling....they asked me the yesterday whose music has been playing so loud the past few nights.

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

I don't remember now where she said this happened (maybe Omaha) but my wife told me that she read where a lady went to her neighbor and told them to turn the music down and the guy pulled out a gun and killed her right there on his front porch.

Sparky · Phat Cat EL Presidente

Sandy, if it doesn't stop go buy one of those huge spot lights and point it right on their window. If noise isn't annoying to them maybe this will be.

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

Oh hey, that's a do-able idea Sparky!!! We have a bright spotlight mounted on the back of our garage that we hardly ever use. Right now it's pointed down towards the ground but it can be set to shine right into their bedrooms/living room!!! idea

Sparky · Phat Cat EL Presidente

ghostdancer wrote:
Oh hey, that's a do-able idea Sparky!!! We have a bright spotlight mounted on the back of our garage that we hardly ever use. Right now it's pointed down towards the ground but it can be set to shine right into their bedrooms/living room!!!

Then when they come over to complain you can play lets make a deal!!

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

Word in the neighborhood is that the people across the street from us bought the rental on the corner and will be tearing it down. He's a car guy and I suspect he may be putting up a garage/shop in its place, but at least we won't have to put up with noisy, constantly rotating renters that don't care about the neighborhood any longer.

garougal · Cleverly Disguised As A Responsible Adult

Yesterday was weird not only in my neighborhood, but in my yard! A couple Hispanic/Latino roofers were working on the roof, which the landlord forgot to mention. So I walk to the door and see one of these guys asleep at the top of my stoop, right below the door. Not speaking much English, he had a hard time communicating what he was doing there as I pondered locking the door and calling the police. That scared me silly to see a stranger sleeping on the ground outside my door!

Trish · The Procrastinating Red-Head

One one side of us is an older lady who is widowed. I never see her, but I know who her kids (and grandkids) are. I send my son over to shovel her walk for free when it snows. On the other side of us is my daughter's best friend's grandparents. They have this huge hundred something year old three story stone house that used to be owned by a judge. It's beautiful. Across the street from us is a lady truckdriver who went to school with my husband. She's married to a little person and they have a daughter together and she has a son from a previous relationship. She's really nice. Rough around the edges, but nice. Their house is actually a cinder block house. Before they bought it we had a bunch of losers living there. It was low rent and all kinds of shady deals were going on there. They've done a lot with the place. Behind us are rental houses that have high turnover. The one catty-corner to us was just rented by a woman who has a daughter who is a polar bear, which is what my daughter calls bipolar. We live on the main drag, so people are always driving by our house very fast. In a town of 1100 it's not hard to tell who it is. Everyone knows everyone, even if they don't talk to each other. There are apartments down the street from us and for a month there was a child offender living there. He didn't stay very long. The buzz was around town before he had even unpacked. On Saturday nights you can open the windows and hear the music from the tavern down the street.

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

In my neighborhood tonight, I was outback grilling cajun chicken breasts. The lady who owns the two saint Benard dogs was out walking them tonight, thats always fun to see, she is so tiny and her dogs are huge. & also in the garbage dumpster out back were a bunch of framed wedding photos. Some with broken glass. Welcome to the apartment & your new single life, whoever you are.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

In my neighborhood, next weekend we're having a huge 4th of July/going away party. So many of the crowd, the neighbors that hang out together, are moving out of state. It's sad. I'm losing my wine buddy! But the party will be great! I volunteered to make the turkey that's been taking up space in my freezer since Thanksgiving.

But, I've never cooked a turkey before. Any hints? (I don't have a smoker or a turkey deep fryer.)

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

the car that was parked behind me last night had, at some point in the past, been peppered with bullets. Its an old dodge dart and I thought someone thought they were being funny with those little stickers that look like bullet holes. But upon closer inspection, no, those are real bullet holes.

squonk · RetroMan

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The sign to Gillies Custard is covered up in a tarp!! And all mention of that name has been removed from the building! Closing down!?!?!? Changing owners!?!??! Dear god, I will die if I can't have my monthly fudge mallow mint sundae!!!!!

JD, they were at the concert a couple of weeks back... don't know. The Linscotts and Hacketts own it. One of the Linscotts was at the show.
Hmm. cry

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

hey squonk I noticed that the name was removed from the sign awhile back and kinda paniced, but that was already late last year I think. And with the way they're celebrating their 70th year, I don't think they're going anywhere. Maybe just getting a bigger better sign?