and I don't know who!
About 2 years ago, my favorite neighbor sold her house. She was a bit older than me, but plenty spunky. She lived across the street from me, and we liked to chat once in awhile.
We do not have much in common. She liked rocks and expensive cactus landscapes (is there such a thing as "expensive" cactus?). She liked to swim naked with her husband in her backyard pool. (so says the other neighbors. LOL. (Don't be jealous, I already mentioned that they are older!) She does not belong to any churches, she does not have any small kids.
Then what is there for us to talk about? The neighbors! The annoying, "who cares who I am bugging" neighbors!
She lived next to an open 40 acre lot, so kids regularly trespassed and stirred up the dirt on their 4-wheelers, then she had to clean it out of her pool everytime she used it. Her husband died about 5 years ago, so she lived alone for awhile. She was very scared to be there by herself on account of her next door neighbors.
The woman who owns the house next to her drives a big rig, so she is out of town most of the time. She is raising her two grandsons (who were teenagers at the time) since their own parents were in jail most of the time and unfit. She has several adult kids that can't make it on their own, so many of them and their kids have come to live with her and her boyfriend, including the ones who just got out of jail.
So, my neighbor sold her house to get away from the constant whatever was going on.
The real story starts now:
The man who bought the house decided to build a work shed.
Where?
Not in the BACKYARD where a considerate person builds a workshed. He built his in the FRONT YARD! ! ! ! Straight across the street from my house.
We built in this neighborhood 22 years ago, cause I like the protection of CCNR's. I like to live around yards that are not junked up. I like to live around yards that do not have several broken down, unusable cars in the driveway. I like to have that protection that I am not living next to an eyesore.
Well, that was a long time ago. People sell and move, and people buy and move in with NO idea about CCNR's. There is no longer a "committee voted in by the neighborhood", so there is nothing legal about enforcing the CCNR's anymore.
A tin shed in the front yard is exactly what I was trying to protect myself from. If the guy owns a HALF ACRE lot with a brick wall around it, WHY DOES HE HAVE TO BUILD HIS TIN SHED IN THE FRONT YARD - IN FRONT of the brick wall- RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY FRONT WINDOWS?????
CCNR infraction #1 tin shed
CCNR infraction #2 shed in front yard
This is a nice "shed" for some neighborhoods,but for a neighborhood
that has always been strictly "stucco and tile roofs"
and "out buildings have to match the house," it is an eyesore,
especially in the FRONT yard.
See what I mean?
Enough room in the BACK yard for 6 SHEDS and surrounded by a wall !
And not a single person nearby to have to listen to it ! ! ! ! !
I called the city as soon as I saw what he was doing and they said he had all the proper permits to be building what he was building and where he was building it, and there was nothing I could do.
Then, I found out what he was building the shed for. . . .
I about shipped my pants!
He does metal work.
Did you hear me?
HE DOES METAL WORK!
He owns a high powered metal cutter called a plasma cutter, and a metal grinder, and he makes metal art.
Just so you know, I cannot stand the sound of cutting metal and grinding metal. I't's worse than fingernails on a chalkboard! My MISOPHONIA forbids it. So, this man built a METAL shed to CUT METAL IN. . . . .do you see where I am going with this?
I have another neighbor that collects junk and metal and cuts it up and turns it in for money. He has gotten in trouble by the city several times for doing this business at his house. In a non-zoned-for junk metal business, without a business license.
Now, the guy across the street from me was going to do the same thing as a "hobby" and get away with it.
CCNR infraction #3 nuisance noises
Not if I could help it! I immediately called the code enforcement officer and told him of this man's plans. The officer told me that the machine he has does not make that much noise, and the only thing I could do about it would be to call in and complain everytime the noise was annoying and they'd send an officer.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? EVERY TIME? How annoying would that make ME to the cops? Sheesh.
CCNR infraction #4. The shed does NOT match his house.
(PS, the "house for sale" sign is for his trailer that's for sale, NOT his house, yeah, a LOT of people stop with that miscommunication as well.)
It has been a long annoying 2 years of the machine and the grinder. I can't be outside when he's using it. It literally hurts my eardrums. He even opens up both doors of the shed while he is grinding so he can let out the noise or the stink or whatever.
The cops version of "too loud" is obviously going to be different than MY version of "too loud," since they don't have to live next to it, so I never even bothered to call it in. UGH.
But, this morning! What a glorious morning! My hubby happened to have a chat with the man with the noisy machines. He told hubby that he got a letter from the city telling him that he had to move his machines ! ! ! ! !
HALLELUJAH. . . . . . . . HALLELUJAH ! ! ! !
So, I owe my neighbor some brownies. Just as soon as I find out which neighbor !
PS did I mention he makes his own wind chimes? (Metal objects hitting into metal objects at every breath of wind?) And did I mention that he places them 50 feet from anywhere at his house that he could actually hear them go off? And did I mention that he hangs them closer to MY house than his own? Somehow, the wind keeps dropping them on the ground, LOL and somehow they keep getting put back up. UGH.
I wonder if someone happened to put some "great stuff" in them how they would sound? Just a thought, in case I have any neighbors that want to do a misophoniac girl a favor ? ! ! !
