29-03-2004, 09:32 PM
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Train noise block
In article ,
(Twobtold) wrote:
Hi --
I'm looking for recommendations for planting an evergreen noise block
at the
back of my daughter's property. She and her husband bought a house in NJ
Zone 6
last year. There is a train that runs in back of their property, during the
'green' season the noise is minimal from the passing trains. But during the
winter 'brown' season the noise is pronounced.
They need about a four inch long sliver of wood from an evergreen cedar.
Ram that deep into each ear.
When we were looking for a house to buy about five years ago, we found a
beauty, four bedroom, detached garage with complete workshop, a spare
outbuilding big as a lot of peoples' homes, a nice chunk of property all
around, for about one-fourth the usual going price -- we could've got a
mortgage for a couple hundred a month. Just before we said out loud, "Why
is this amazing place so cheap?" the train roared through, making sure to
blow its whistle full blast so it wouldn't be mowing down the children
children mashing pennies on the track.
An even better place we found on Winslow.Several acres, big house, big
barn, enclosed by woods, for a price some people would pay for a white
trash double-wide. We really considered it, but were deeply puzzled why it
had been on the market for a couple of years. We drove back without the
real estate agent a couple days later to see if it was really the rural
paradise it had seemed. And suddenly we knew why the realtor was so
insistant on the timing of our previous arrival. She didn't want us
checking out the place during the four hours each day that the Air Force
buzzes the property.
-paghat the ratgirl
--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/
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