Boy did I need this run!
Running=stress relief…thank GOD!
Roy and I were talking on the phone as I drove and he walked home. He got home a few minutes before I did and informed me there was a note on the door from a police officer. In a panic I rushed home because it was about our dogs being out. Thank the LORD Wiley was out, but had stayed close, and Dash and Murphy were still in the kennel.
So the upshot was Wiley and Murphy (although he was IN when we got home) apparently got out and were harassing the back neighbors’ dog. We keep them in a kennel with a six foot tall fence that encloses our basement stairs so they are not loose in our backyard, as one side of our fenceline is this ridiculously short 3.5 foot tall fence (neighbors built it). The rest is a six foot tall fence, and the other part is going this summer. When the officer showed up in our backyard to find out what was going on, the dogs barked at him. Our neighbor, and I use that term loosely as in “the (&@*( who lives next to us” not as in someone who behaves in a neighborly fashion, informs him that they bark “all day every day.”
So now we’re getting a ticket.
Now don’t get me wrong. I agree to pay the ticket for the dog being out. We’re not sure HOW he got out, but he did and that poses a threat to him so we do NOT want that happening. Very not cool. I also would not blame another person for calling 911…they would not know he is a friendly dog.
It’s the barking thing. They DO NOT BARK ALL DAY EVERY DAY! This woman will hear them bark in the summer (we may be out playing in the yard), open her window and scream “SHUT UP!!!” after 30 seconds. To her, dog barking is a bane on society. Never mind that we lived here first, we keep our dogs safely INDOORS with outdoor access all day every day, and often indoors completely. They are NEVER kenneled when we are home unless I have a client or a guest who does not like dogs. She once complained she heard them barking ALL NIGHT. Funny that I didn’t hear it SINCE THEY SLEEP IN THE SAME ROOM I DO, OFTEN ON THE BED!!!
It’s the lying that pisses me off. Do they bark? Sure they do! They are dogs. That is how a dog communicates. Do they bark “all day every day”? HARDLY! In fact what you’ll hear is the occasional “you have my bone and now I will eat your face” scrabble that lasts SECONDS, or if another dog comes into the backyard, the meter reader shows up, or kids cut through our yard…those are all VERY rare situations that have caused barking. If our ticket includes a barking fine, we’re going to fight it because I could “say” that she runs a crack house. Doesn’t make it true, but I could say that, so if they base a ticket on what she said, I’ll be pissed. Did they bark at the strange man in dark clothing entering their yard? Sure! That’s what we want them to do. It keeps HER safe too!
Why would someone move into a neighborhood and expect absolute silence? We do not blast our music, we don’t park junkers on the lawn, we mow our grass, we mind our business, and we are very NICE people. But she is this older dried up old hag who is like Alice Kravitz reincarnated. She looks over her fence at us while we’re eating lunch in the summer time. She screeches out the window at the playing dogs. She complains when we have the RARE fire in our fire pit (one time I came out to find her spraying her hose over our fence because it was “burning out of control”. Um, that was STEAM raising up from the pit because it happened to have a hose on it because I’d just put it out then stepped into the house to answer a timer that was going off.
I wonder if I shouldn’t start blaring my music from BUBBA as I leave at 4 a.m. every day? Naw…
Anyhow, thank HEAVENS for running! It was great to just get my frustrations out. Not to mention it was “thank you Jesus” gorgeous outside today. I mean cold, clear, mountains, the sunset was every color of the rainbow and seemed to last forever. It was so beautiful, in fact, that I extended my run .7 miles so I could keep drinking it in. Just beautiful!
I am now feeling MUCH better! The boys will all be in the house from now on, but maybe I’ll get that dogs barking Jingle Bells song and put it on a loop tomorrow…
Workout:
- Type: Run
- Date: 12/04/2008
- Time: 16:00:00
- Total Time: 00:53:16.00
- Calories: 625
- Distance: 4.7 miles
- Average Pace: 11:20.53/mile
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Boy did I need this run!
December 4th, 2008 7:51 pm
databasediva says:
When I couldn’t run off my stress this year, my head started feeling like that carnival game where you fill the balloon until it explodes. Thank goodness for running!
December 4th, 2008 8:17 pm
shebaduhkitty says:
that sucks so much! When we first moved in our neighbor with a dog told us we should get a dog, becasue then we wouldn’t notice or mind the other negihborhood dogs’ barking.
it actually kinda worked.. everyone around us has dogs, which is a little annoying when some on walks their dog down our street at 10:30 PM and every dog on the block has to bark their hello and warning.
December 4th, 2008 8:32 pm
Brad Hefta-Gaub says:
Sorry you had to deal with this today… I’m glad my neighbors are more reasonable…
Although this does remind me of one time when we had a Halloween party, that ran “late” into the night (maybe 1am) and we were playing music, and there were friends over (all adults of course) drinking and talking, and having a pretty tame adult (albeit somewhat inebriated) party… mind you, we had a 2 year old and a 4 year old child sleeping upstairs, so we couldn’t have been that loud…
But apparently I neighbor was annoyed by it… so he brilliant plan was to play Nora Jones blasting from her stereo at 7am the next morning. Mind you, I don’t mind Nora Jones, so it wasn’t exactly torture… but it was funny that she somehow wanted to “retaliate” and this was her best shot.
Good luck dealing with your “neighbors”!