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NEIGHBORS STEREO destroys serenty of the garden
This may not be the right group to ask this question in but I am hoping
some other gardeners have had this problem and found a solution. I've got a neighbor across the street that apparently likes to garden/maintain his house to the beat of a drummer (not a diffeernt drummer, just a drummmer and a 28 piece band BG)..to enhance his listening pleasure he has installed outdoor speakers. HE enjoys it but (he did this as the weather was getting cold late last year (I am in northern NJ)and now with some warmer days happening, so is his 6-8 hour marathons of music) The noise makes the thought of gardening in peace a thing of the past for me. I have lived here for 14 years on a dead end street and its quite peaceful, or WAS until this character decided that his music must be shared with the world. I am perplexed that people cannot just enjoy the sounds of nature when working outside. Yeah sometimes I want to listen to some music myself but I use wireless headphones and no one knows I am listening to The Beatles as loud as I did when I was a thoughtless teenager. I mentioned this to him after a another neighbor (right across the street from him) called me to ask if I would speak to this individual about the loud music. That is when I heard "hey I have the right to play my music during the daytime".....apparently the concept of other peoples right to quiet is beyond his comprehension.OR he just doesn't give a S***~ which is more likely the case. I have talked with the other neighbors and while they HEAR it and find it annoying they don't want to say anything (are most people deaf or just sheep?). Perhaps its because they spend most of the winter shut up tight (though the music comes through MY windows) and spend the summer in central air and still keep those windows shut tight. I guess I am weird, I LIKE fresh air........but now its polluted with noise that is so unnecessary. I have spoken with the police and while there is a town ordinance again noise above certain decibles, I was told it was rarely enforced....besides I hate the though of having to call the police on a neighbor....not only does it go against my principles (though I have to admit I am ready to throw them out the window in return for some garden serenty) but it may open a bigger can of worms...a ****ed off neighbor. now, after a long winded post, my question......... Have any other gardeners run into a problem like this and how did they resolve it (besides moving)? (and a last minute thought though it should be saved for a different post).........I noted this am a whole row of 10' Leyland cypress are turing light green a brittle.........what is going ON this winter? What the deer don't eat, the wet soggy/frozen ground is rotting roots...anyone having this problem? Thus far I have lost a 20' weeping nootkantensis and the deer have eaten over 10 hemlocks, 16 arborvitae and utterly destroyed every euonymous I own (owned)... rich haynes |
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NEIGHBORS STEREO destroys serenty of the garden
"Rich" wrote in message ... This may not be the right group to ask this question in but I am hoping some other gardeners have had this problem and found a solution. a valid question and rant snipped for space.............................. I love the sounds of nature myself, but had this problem when I lived in the city on a normal street with neighbors all around me. But the shoe was on the other foot. It was ME who dragged my speaked outside of the house to aim them towards the back of my house while I played music to garden by. Nothing like your neighbors hearing Janis Joplin,Moody Blues, Pink Floyd or Allen Parsons Project(among others) on a bright, perfect gardening day. But having said that, and knowing that I cranked it up loud enough to hear it in the back of the yard where all my raised veggie beds were, I will say that I lived about a mile from the Cumberland River and across that was Opryland. And every hour and a half the General Jackson steamboat came down at the ferry road to turn around in the river.........lots of steamboat whistles (I did love those, and knowing John Hartford was the Captain made it special) but the ruckus from Opryland including the fireworks on the 4th and at season's end, and on humid nights the various sounds were crystal clear made sleeping hard if you went to bed before the park closed at 11 during peak season. All around me people owned lawnmowers. The ones with no mufflers. And weedeaters were just coming into the scene. Gardening and yard maintenance wasn't the quiet whirrl or a push mower or constant snip snip snip of pruning shears anymore. I respected my older neighbors and didn't crank my music up until I was sure everyone was awake. and anyone offended by the music, I obliged and turned it down. The surrounding city noises usually made it easier to tolerate. When the neighbor was that rare quiet that you'd not expect in suburbs, I didn't disrupt it with my music. But that was just me. And I still cranked it up when it was sunny and nice outside and I was doing serious garden stuff. I have talked with the other neighbors and while they HEAR it and find it annoying they don't want to say anything (are most people deaf or just sheep?). People are sheep. That the neighbor near you asked YOU to say something says people are reluctant to have confrontations anymore. There is no common decency in a lot of people now. I sat in our truck last night at a light, in a rural but populated town just 14 miles north of us and due to my cold, had the window up. From somewhere, the THROB of rap music was apparent, and despite that I realize I don't live in the city anymore and aren't used to this, my sensitivity to noise became apparent when I started looking for the offending vehicle. This town by the way is a college town, but not like Knoxville with UT, but a smaller, liberal arts college. The throbbing was audible thru our closed windows and we have a good sound insulation in our 1999 Ford truck. I heard myself repeating my mother. the words came right out of my mouth and I was appalled............"they're going to be deaf blasting that crap in their ears" There has been a gap in politeness Rich. My mother allowed me to listen to my music, and it was the 60's and early 70's music, and it was disturbing to her. But I was not allowed to crank it up so loudly that it was broadcast to the neighbor's next door. It had to be contained within my own room, and my dad was quick to buy me headphones once he found out they were basically safe for me to use. And mom would check on me occaisonally to make sure the volumn level wasn't all the way up. I heard way louder when I went to concerts later on.g The one time I had my music up loud enough for my parent's neighbors to hear it and something was said, my dad took my stereo away from me for a week. It taught me if I abused the privilege of having my own stereo and right to listen to anything I wanted, I would be punished for disrespecting other people's similar rights. Perhaps its because they spend most of the winter shut up tight (though the music comes through MY windows) and spend the summer in central air and still keep those windows shut tight. I guess I am weird, I LIKE fresh air........but now its polluted with noise that is so unnecessary. I like fresh air too, and I love my music, but living up here in the country with nature all around me, and having a 74 year old neighbor up the driveway reminds me that I can't be disrespectful of her. She doesn't always like my music and I shouldn't impose my tastes on her. she only hears it when I have it on outside when she comes down the long driveway and closer to my yard. And that's not all the time. BTW, I now listen to modern folk, Celtic, World, some rock, blues, bluegrass,Cajun zydecoe,and a bit of Reggae. I have a 30 year old son who likes Reggae, and even that gets on my nerves sometimes..........it's only occaisonally that I listen to Janis. I like more compilation now. That neighbor hopefully will grow up and mature in his musical likes. I have spoken with the police and while there is a town ordinance again noise above certain decibles, I was told it was rarely enforced....besides I hate the though of having to call the police on a neighbor....not only does it go against my principles (though I have to admit I am ready to throw them out the window in return for some garden serenty) but it may open a bigger can of worms...a ****ed off neighbor. You're right about that. If the neighbor insists his rights are being infringed upon, he won't understand that he's infringing on other's. Oblivious. Buy the guy some headphones with a 100 foot jack......................... now, after a long winded post, my question......... Have any other gardeners run into a problem like this and how did they resolve it (besides moving)? Now regarding this part.........my immediate neighbor next door was a saxaphone player. And his son played drums. And despite that I love music, the jams and practices were enough to cause homicide. I made a deal with them (they liked my music, and across the driveway the other neighbors didn't mind my music either, but I lothed and hated their country music.......grew up in Nashville, over it, but because I dragged my speakers outside to garden sometimes, I felt it wasn't right to ask them to turn their music down) and they complied most of the time. When they moved, I talked with the new neighbors and we made a pact of sorts. When Alex was sleeping, I didn't bring my speakers outside. He'd call out to me to let me know he was up, and I was free to carry on. When we had parties was another story all together....GBSEG But most of the time we contained our ruckus inside. Not too often did the police come by because of music cranked loudly. Of course there was the party for Squire and Spider out in Aurora, Colorado that was called in for loudness, back in 1978 and when they pounded on the door, I answered it and they stood there with their mouths open looking confused. This was the era back then of Sidewalk commando's. Aurora was growing at a rate of 150,000 a year and the cops had attitudes. I lived with bikers, being a little hippie mama myself...you get my drift. They were dumbfounded. Apparently the neighbor's next door had called in to report an extremely raucous and loud party going on at the corner of 16th and Lima. It was our house. But when I opened up the door to them, they could barely even hear music, let alone what had been called in. I told them we did have a party going on, but it was downstairs in the basement. Because the basement door was closed, and the basement was underground with just ground level windows, you didn't hear the 40+ bikers and assorted people partying their asses off below. What the neighbors heard was the true party when Moose opened one casement window to let out the smoky air. After that, we kept the windows closed. The police apologized to me for coming by because obciously it wasn't disturbing the peace and they went their merry way. Downstairs 40+ bikers drinking two kegs of beer, rowdying, yelling, stereo cranked up to unbelievable levels of music, laughter, and basic pandemonium (lots of wasted people that night) went without a hitch. Had the police heard something louder, they would have had quite a bust on their hands.................................nothing major in illegals as much as just that it was a serious biker party. I had a quad stereo which was unexpected out of a chick in those days, and over 3000 albums so I was always the dj............g The next morning by the way, there was 3 inches of beer on the floor, and a trashcan of broken beer bottles once we trashed and cleaned the basement party room up. It took a long box for the clean up.....And I have pictures of everyone soaked in beer during that party, too. Everyone's hair looked wonderful for a few days GBSEG (my boys slept thru the whole thing once I was able to get them to GO to sleep, parties always wired them up) (and a last minute thought though it should be saved for a different post).........I noted this am a whole row of 10' Leyland cypress are turing light green a brittle.........what is going ON this winter? My husband pointed out pits in our truck windshield yesterday and told me it was volcanic acid rain that was pitting the windshield. Apparently there's been quite a bit of it lately. And windshield glass isn't totally glass so it pits with volcanic acid rain. If you're in the city, you're also getting problems in the moisture from the emmisions from our cars, factories and such. Sad to think we're polluting this planet faster than it can heal. I won't soapbox on this one........... What the deer don't eat, the wet soggy/frozen ground is rotting roots...anyone having this problem? Up in the Smokies, because there are so many more tourists and cars, they're seeing more effects in the trees and such from the pollution. (the area has no car emissions control). Add to that, that anthrachnose has decimated a large portion of the dogwood population, pine beetles are killing the Jack pines at alarming rates, and the devistation of the trees from gypsy moths.........well Nature goes marching on.................... Thus far I have lost a 20' weeping nootkantensis and the deer have eaten over 10 hemlocks, 16 arborvitae and utterly destroyed every euonymous I own (owned)... sounds like time to have some deer in the freezer..................if we don't thin the herds down (there are no preditors in the city except for us, and that responsibility falls to us to maintain a balance) you'll suffer from the excess and overfed states of them by more incidents of lime disease and accidents. nuff said. madgardener rich haynes |
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NEIGHBORS STEREO destroys serenty of the garden
heck I'd set up my own system and make sure it pointed towards him and
then put on some high class classical and make sure it was louder than his and let it rip. -- "Knowledge is a 3 edged Sword" Kosh on Babylon 5 www.starlords.org "Rich" wrote in message ... This may not be the right group to ask this question in but I am hoping some other gardeners have had this problem and found a solution. I've got a neighbor across the street that apparently likes to garden/maintain his house to the beat of a drummer (not a diffeernt drummer, just a drummmer and a 28 piece band BG)..to enhance his listening pleasure he has installed outdoor speakers. HE enjoys it but (he did this as the weather was getting cold late last year (I am in northern NJ)and now with some warmer days happening, so is his 6-8 hour marathons of music) The noise makes the thought of gardening in peace a thing of the past for me. I have lived here for 14 years on a dead end street and its quite peaceful, or WAS until this character decided that his music must be shared with the world. I am perplexed that people cannot just enjoy the sounds of nature when working outside. Yeah sometimes I want to listen to some music myself but I use wireless headphones and no one knows I am listening to The Beatles as loud as I did when I was a thoughtless teenager. I mentioned this to him after a another neighbor (right across the street from him) called me to ask if I would speak to this individual about the loud music. That is when I heard "hey I have the right to play my music during the daytime".....apparently the concept of other peoples right to quiet is beyond his comprehension.OR he just doesn't give a S***~ which is more likely the case. I have talked with the other neighbors and while they HEAR it and find it annoying they don't want to say anything (are most people deaf or just sheep?). Perhaps its because they spend most of the winter shut up tight (though the music comes through MY windows) and spend the summer in central air and still keep those windows shut tight. I guess I am weird, I LIKE fresh air........but now its polluted with noise that is so unnecessary. I have spoken with the police and while there is a town ordinance again noise above certain decibles, I was told it was rarely enforced....besides I hate the though of having to call the police on a neighbor....not only does it go against my principles (though I have to admit I am ready to throw them out the window in return for some garden serenty) but it may open a bigger can of worms...a ****ed off neighbor. now, after a long winded post, my question......... Have any other gardeners run into a problem like this and how did they resolve it (besides moving)? (and a last minute thought though it should be saved for a different post).........I noted this am a whole row of 10' Leyland cypress are turing light green a brittle.........what is going ON this winter? What the deer don't eat, the wet soggy/frozen ground is rotting roots...anyone having this problem? Thus far I have lost a 20' weeping nootkantensis and the deer have eaten over 10 hemlocks, 16 arborvitae and utterly destroyed every euonymous I own (owned)... rich haynes |
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NEIGHBORS STEREO destroys serenty of the garden
heck I'd set up my own system and make sure it pointed towards him and
then put on some high class classical and make sure it was louder than his and let it rip. -- "Knowledge is a 3 edged Sword" Kosh on Babylon 5 www.starlords.org "Rich" wrote in message ... This may not be the right group to ask this question in but I am hoping some other gardeners have had this problem and found a solution. I've got a neighbor across the street that apparently likes to garden/maintain his house to the beat of a drummer (not a diffeernt drummer, just a drummmer and a 28 piece band BG)..to enhance his listening pleasure he has installed outdoor speakers. HE enjoys it but (he did this as the weather was getting cold late last year (I am in northern NJ)and now with some warmer days happening, so is his 6-8 hour marathons of music) The noise makes the thought of gardening in peace a thing of the past for me. I have lived here for 14 years on a dead end street and its quite peaceful, or WAS until this character decided that his music must be shared with the world. I am perplexed that people cannot just enjoy the sounds of nature when working outside. Yeah sometimes I want to listen to some music myself but I use wireless headphones and no one knows I am listening to The Beatles as loud as I did when I was a thoughtless teenager. I mentioned this to him after a another neighbor (right across the street from him) called me to ask if I would speak to this individual about the loud music. That is when I heard "hey I have the right to play my music during the daytime".....apparently the concept of other peoples right to quiet is beyond his comprehension.OR he just doesn't give a S***~ which is more likely the case. I have talked with the other neighbors and while they HEAR it and find it annoying they don't want to say anything (are most people deaf or just sheep?). Perhaps its because they spend most of the winter shut up tight (though the music comes through MY windows) and spend the summer in central air and still keep those windows shut tight. I guess I am weird, I LIKE fresh air........but now its polluted with noise that is so unnecessary. I have spoken with the police and while there is a town ordinance again noise above certain decibles, I was told it was rarely enforced....besides I hate the though of having to call the police on a neighbor....not only does it go against my principles (though I have to admit I am ready to throw them out the window in return for some garden serenty) but it may open a bigger can of worms...a ****ed off neighbor. now, after a long winded post, my question......... Have any other gardeners run into a problem like this and how did they resolve it (besides moving)? (and a last minute thought though it should be saved for a different post).........I noted this am a whole row of 10' Leyland cypress are turing light green a brittle.........what is going ON this winter? What the deer don't eat, the wet soggy/frozen ground is rotting roots...anyone having this problem? Thus far I have lost a 20' weeping nootkantensis and the deer have eaten over 10 hemlocks, 16 arborvitae and utterly destroyed every euonymous I own (owned)... rich haynes |
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I have to agree. if you are unwilling to bitch to the police, or they are unwilling
to do anything, then you have little resort unless you want to do some sneaky shit and make their life unbearable in the neighborhood. I really, really wonder why the hell there arent some laws with teeth about noise pollution. more than anything else unwanted noise drives people nuts and makes urban living miserable. an ugly house and turn your back cant see it. we got an ugly house next to ours but I can ignore it. but cannot get away from noise. I would be beating on their door making them just as nuts as they are ... and I guess I would be willing to go so far as to break some of their windows and tell em to sue me and I will counter sue you for disturbing the peace. or how about sneak up to their house at night while they are sleeping and use one of those shriek alarms. I am afraid the only remedy is being every bit as obnoxious as they are is all that is going to work. if it gets bad enough, then the other sheep like neighbors are going to have to get involved. Ingrid "starlord" starlord*inreach.com wrote: heck I'd set up my own system and make sure it pointed towards him and then put on some high class classical and make sure it was louder than his and let it rip. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List http://puregold.aquaria.net/ www.drsolo.com Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unfortunately, I receive no money, gifts, discounts or other compensation for all the damn work I do, nor for any of the endorsements or recommendations I make. |
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better yet... get your shotgun and/or rifle take it outdoors when they are and clean
it right in front of them. most people dominate by intimidation. you need to give them something to think about. be sure to get some tape on just how obnoxious this is...and keep records of how often and long it happens. Ingrid ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List http://puregold.aquaria.net/ www.drsolo.com Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unfortunately, I receive no money, gifts, discounts or other compensation for all the damn work I do, nor for any of the endorsements or recommendations I make. |
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NEIGHBORS STEREO destroys serenty of the garden
starlord starlord wrote:
heck I'd set up my own system and make sure it pointed towards him and then put on some high class classical and make sure it was louder than his and let it rip. Oh don't think that hasn't been running through my head.........I have in my studio (I am an artist) a surround sound system by Bose that could outblast any of the tower speakers I used to have in decades past......and a few cds of some counter-culture groups like Throbbing Gristle that would probably break a few windows.........it takes very little brains to blast music. And if there weren't other neighbors who would get disturbed (not to mention my wife G) I would blast MY stereo so I wouldn't know he existed. however..............that wouldn't permit me to enjoy the sounds of nature, which I consider to be the status quo (funny how many think the status quo is the sound of THEIR stereos VBG) actually I listen to mostly classical music..very little of which has the annoying bass found in any 'modern' music....not to belittle New Age (which I have for when I work late nights) but even the loudest classical (war of 1812 oveture, Sousa marches, etc.) is not as disturbing as hour after hour of Cher and disco music which this guy seem to enjoy)....played out back while he works in front. I even showed him my wireless headphones the other day after asking him again to turn it down, but again I got "why can't I listen to music when its 2 pm in the afternoon (to which I answered BECAUSE I cannot enjoy peace and quiet!.thats when he gets this quizzical look like "what do you want to listen to THAT for??)))) .he doesn't LIKE the idea of having to wear headphones, LOL.........but doesn't want to listen to the fact that he is taking away the right of others NOT to hear his music.. I dunno, maybe there is something wrong (mentally) with this guy, that's what my wife thinks. He is ALWAYS home except for short trips to stores....yet he is a young guy (40) where was I? oh, lol........ but musical taste was never my complaint............its the volume......hell, I don't care if he is playing Vivaldi's 4 Seasons (my personal favorite since I was in college in the late 60's).if its loud enough to be drowning out my Beatles, Bach or hearing the grass grow, I think its time for one of us to move or get a conscience. I do have a rather bad temper and low tolerance for people who don't give a S*** .........a temper that takes a long time to blow but when it does it takes a long time to get passed it...and I am generally the loser in the long run, my wife is trying to get me to avoid that from happening as it did when we lived in apartments. AS I type in my studio here, gee its a nice sunny day out, temp is now 50 DEGREES and guess what just came on (SIGH) rich |
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NEIGHBORS STEREO destroys serenty of the garden
I have to agree. if you are unwilling to bitch to the police, or they are unwilling
to do anything, then you have little resort unless you want to do some sneaky shit and make their life unbearable in the neighborhood. I really, really wonder why the hell there arent some laws with teeth about noise pollution. more than anything else unwanted noise drives people nuts and makes urban living miserable. an ugly house and turn your back cant see it. we got an ugly house next to ours but I can ignore it. but cannot get away from noise. I would be beating on their door making them just as nuts as they are ... and I guess I would be willing to go so far as to break some of their windows and tell em to sue me and I will counter sue you for disturbing the peace. or how about sneak up to their house at night while they are sleeping and use one of those shriek alarms. I am afraid the only remedy is being every bit as obnoxious as they are is all that is going to work. if it gets bad enough, then the other sheep like neighbors are going to have to get involved. Ingrid "starlord" starlord*inreach.com wrote: heck I'd set up my own system and make sure it pointed towards him and then put on some high class classical and make sure it was louder than his and let it rip. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List http://puregold.aquaria.net/ www.drsolo.com Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unfortunately, I receive no money, gifts, discounts or other compensation for all the damn work I do, nor for any of the endorsements or recommendations I make. |
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NEIGHBORS STEREO destroys serenty of the garden
better yet... get your shotgun and/or rifle take it outdoors when they are and clean
it right in front of them. most people dominate by intimidation. you need to give them something to think about. be sure to get some tape on just how obnoxious this is...and keep records of how often and long it happens. Ingrid ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List http://puregold.aquaria.net/ www.drsolo.com Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unfortunately, I receive no money, gifts, discounts or other compensation for all the damn work I do, nor for any of the endorsements or recommendations I make. |
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starlord starlord wrote:
heck I'd set up my own system and make sure it pointed towards him and then put on some high class classical and make sure it was louder than his and let it rip. Oh don't think that hasn't been running through my head.........I have in my studio (I am an artist) a surround sound system by Bose that could outblast any of the tower speakers I used to have in decades past......and a few cds of some counter-culture groups like Throbbing Gristle that would probably break a few windows.........it takes very little brains to blast music. And if there weren't other neighbors who would get disturbed (not to mention my wife G) I would blast MY stereo so I wouldn't know he existed. however..............that wouldn't permit me to enjoy the sounds of nature, which I consider to be the status quo (funny how many think the status quo is the sound of THEIR stereos VBG) actually I listen to mostly classical music..very little of which has the annoying bass found in any 'modern' music....not to belittle New Age (which I have for when I work late nights) but even the loudest classical (war of 1812 oveture, Sousa marches, etc.) is not as disturbing as hour after hour of Cher and disco music which this guy seem to enjoy)....played out back while he works in front. I even showed him my wireless headphones the other day after asking him again to turn it down, but again I got "why can't I listen to music when its 2 pm in the afternoon (to which I answered BECAUSE I cannot enjoy peace and quiet!.thats when he gets this quizzical look like "what do you want to listen to THAT for??)))) .he doesn't LIKE the idea of having to wear headphones, LOL.........but doesn't want to listen to the fact that he is taking away the right of others NOT to hear his music.. I dunno, maybe there is something wrong (mentally) with this guy, that's what my wife thinks. He is ALWAYS home except for short trips to stores....yet he is a young guy (40) where was I? oh, lol........ but musical taste was never my complaint............its the volume......hell, I don't care if he is playing Vivaldi's 4 Seasons (my personal favorite since I was in college in the late 60's).if its loud enough to be drowning out my Beatles, Bach or hearing the grass grow, I think its time for one of us to move or get a conscience. I do have a rather bad temper and low tolerance for people who don't give a S*** .........a temper that takes a long time to blow but when it does it takes a long time to get passed it...and I am generally the loser in the long run, my wife is trying to get me to avoid that from happening as it did when we lived in apartments. AS I type in my studio here, gee its a nice sunny day out, temp is now 50 DEGREES and guess what just came on (SIGH) rich |
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better yet... get your shotgun and/or rifle take it outdoors when they are and clean
it right in front of them. most people dominate by intimidation. you need to give them something to think about. be sure to get some tape on just how obnoxious this is...and keep records of how often and long it happens. Ingrid ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List http://puregold.aquaria.net/ www.drsolo.com Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unfortunately, I receive no money, gifts, discounts or other compensation for all the damn work I do, nor for any of the endorsements or recommendations I make. |
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NEIGHBORS STEREO destroys serenty of the garden
starlord starlord wrote:
heck I'd set up my own system and make sure it pointed towards him and then put on some high class classical and make sure it was louder than his and let it rip. Oh don't think that hasn't been running through my head.........I have in my studio (I am an artist) a surround sound system by Bose that could outblast any of the tower speakers I used to have in decades past......and a few cds of some counter-culture groups like Throbbing Gristle that would probably break a few windows.........it takes very little brains to blast music. And if there weren't other neighbors who would get disturbed (not to mention my wife G) I would blast MY stereo so I wouldn't know he existed. however..............that wouldn't permit me to enjoy the sounds of nature, which I consider to be the status quo (funny how many think the status quo is the sound of THEIR stereos VBG) actually I listen to mostly classical music..very little of which has the annoying bass found in any 'modern' music....not to belittle New Age (which I have for when I work late nights) but even the loudest classical (war of 1812 oveture, Sousa marches, etc.) is not as disturbing as hour after hour of Cher and disco music which this guy seem to enjoy)....played out back while he works in front. I even showed him my wireless headphones the other day after asking him again to turn it down, but again I got "why can't I listen to music when its 2 pm in the afternoon (to which I answered BECAUSE I cannot enjoy peace and quiet!.thats when he gets this quizzical look like "what do you want to listen to THAT for??)))) .he doesn't LIKE the idea of having to wear headphones, LOL.........but doesn't want to listen to the fact that he is taking away the right of others NOT to hear his music.. I dunno, maybe there is something wrong (mentally) with this guy, that's what my wife thinks. He is ALWAYS home except for short trips to stores....yet he is a young guy (40) where was I? oh, lol........ but musical taste was never my complaint............its the volume......hell, I don't care if he is playing Vivaldi's 4 Seasons (my personal favorite since I was in college in the late 60's).if its loud enough to be drowning out my Beatles, Bach or hearing the grass grow, I think its time for one of us to move or get a conscience. I do have a rather bad temper and low tolerance for people who don't give a S*** .........a temper that takes a long time to blow but when it does it takes a long time to get passed it...and I am generally the loser in the long run, my wife is trying to get me to avoid that from happening as it did when we lived in apartments. AS I type in my studio here, gee its a nice sunny day out, temp is now 50 DEGREES and guess what just came on (SIGH) rich |
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NEIGHBORS STEREO destroys serenty of the garden
Dear Mad.
I dunno, maybe I am just in the process of becoming an old fart, lol. Maybe I should just put an ice pick through my eardrums and be done with it BG. I guess I am expecting too much out of people...after all , I AM in New Jersey. Rich **************************************** madgardener wrote: "Rich" wrote in message ... This may not be the right group to ask this question in but I am hoping some other gardeners have had this problem and found a solution. a valid question and rant snipped for space.............................. I love the sounds of nature myself, but had this problem when I lived in the city on a normal street with neighbors all around me. But the shoe was on the other foot. It was ME who dragged my speaked outside of the house to aim them towards the back of my house while I played music to garden by. Nothing like your neighbors hearing Janis Joplin,Moody Blues, Pink Floyd or Allen Parsons Project(among others) on a bright, perfect gardening day. But having said that, and knowing that I cranked it up loud enough to hear it in the back of the yard where all my raised veggie beds were, I will say that I lived about a mile from the Cumberland River and across that was Opryland. And every hour and a half the General Jackson steamboat came down at the ferry road to turn around in the river.........lots of steamboat whistles (I did love those, and knowing John Hartford was the Captain made it special) but the ruckus from Opryland including the fireworks on the 4th and at season's end, and on humid nights the various sounds were crystal clear made sleeping hard if you went to bed before the park closed at 11 during peak season. All around me people owned lawnmowers. The ones with no mufflers. And weedeaters were just coming into the scene. Gardening and yard maintenance wasn't the quiet whirrl or a push mower or constant snip snip snip of pruning shears anymore. I respected my older neighbors and didn't crank my music up until I was sure everyone was awake. and anyone offended by the music, I obliged and turned it down. The surrounding city noises usually made it easier to tolerate. When the neighbor was that rare quiet that you'd not expect in suburbs, I didn't disrupt it with my music. But that was just me. And I still cranked it up when it was sunny and nice outside and I was doing serious garden stuff. I have talked with the other neighbors and while they HEAR it and find it annoying they don't want to say anything (are most people deaf or just sheep?). People are sheep. That the neighbor near you asked YOU to say something says people are reluctant to have confrontations anymore. There is no common decency in a lot of people now. I sat in our truck last night at a light, in a rural but populated town just 14 miles north of us and due to my cold, had the window up. From somewhere, the THROB of rap music was apparent, and despite that I realize I don't live in the city anymore and aren't used to this, my sensitivity to noise became apparent when I started looking for the offending vehicle. This town by the way is a college town, but not like Knoxville with UT, but a smaller, liberal arts college. The throbbing was audible thru our closed windows and we have a good sound insulation in our 1999 Ford truck. I heard myself repeating my mother. the words came right out of my mouth and I was appalled............"they're going to be deaf blasting that crap in their ears" There has been a gap in politeness Rich. My mother allowed me to listen to my music, and it was the 60's and early 70's music, and it was disturbing to her. But I was not allowed to crank it up so loudly that it was broadcast to the neighbor's next door. It had to be contained within my own room, and my dad was quick to buy me headphones once he found out they were basically safe for me to use. And mom would check on me occaisonally to make sure the volumn level wasn't all the way up. I heard way louder when I went to concerts later on.g The one time I had my music up loud enough for my parent's neighbors to hear it and something was said, my dad took my stereo away from me for a week. It taught me if I abused the privilege of having my own stereo and right to listen to anything I wanted, I would be punished for disrespecting other people's similar rights. Perhaps its because they spend most of the winter shut up tight (though the music comes through MY windows) and spend the summer in central air and still keep those windows shut tight. I guess I am weird, I LIKE fresh air........but now its polluted with noise that is so unnecessary. I like fresh air too, and I love my music, but living up here in the country with nature all around me, and having a 74 year old neighbor up the driveway reminds me that I can't be disrespectful of her. She doesn't always like my music and I shouldn't impose my tastes on her. she only hears it when I have it on outside when she comes down the long driveway and closer to my yard. And that's not all the time. BTW, I now listen to modern folk, Celtic, World, some rock, blues, bluegrass,Cajun zydecoe,and a bit of Reggae. I have a 30 year old son who likes Reggae, and even that gets on my nerves sometimes..........it's only occaisonally that I listen to Janis. I like more compilation now. That neighbor hopefully will grow up and mature in his musical likes. I have spoken with the police and while there is a town ordinance again noise above certain decibles, I was told it was rarely enforced....besides I hate the though of having to call the police on a neighbor....not only does it go against my principles (though I have to admit I am ready to throw them out the window in return for some garden serenty) but it may open a bigger can of worms...a ****ed off neighbor. You're right about that. If the neighbor insists his rights are being infringed upon, he won't understand that he's infringing on other's. Oblivious. Buy the guy some headphones with a 100 foot jack......................... now, after a long winded post, my question......... Have any other gardeners run into a problem like this and how did they resolve it (besides moving)? Now regarding this part.........my immediate neighbor next door was a saxaphone player. And his son played drums. And despite that I love music, the jams and practices were enough to cause homicide. I made a deal with them (they liked my music, and across the driveway the other neighbors didn't mind my music either, but I lothed and hated their country music.......grew up in Nashville, over it, but because I dragged my speakers outside to garden sometimes, I felt it wasn't right to ask them to turn their music down) and they complied most of the time. When they moved, I talked with the new neighbors and we made a pact of sorts. When Alex was sleeping, I didn't bring my speakers outside. He'd call out to me to let me know he was up, and I was free to carry on. When we had parties was another story all together....GBSEG But most of the time we contained our ruckus inside. Not too often did the police come by because of music cranked loudly. Of course there was the party for Squire and Spider out in Aurora, Colorado that was called in for loudness, back in 1978 and when they pounded on the door, I answered it and they stood there with their mouths open looking confused. This was the era back then of Sidewalk commando's. Aurora was growing at a rate of 150,000 a year and the cops had attitudes. I lived with bikers, being a little hippie mama myself...you get my drift. They were dumbfounded. Apparently the neighbor's next door had called in to report an extremely raucous and loud party going on at the corner of 16th and Lima. It was our house. But when I opened up the door to them, they could barely even hear music, let alone what had been called in. I told them we did have a party going on, but it was downstairs in the basement. Because the basement door was closed, and the basement was underground with just ground level windows, you didn't hear the 40+ bikers and assorted people partying their asses off below. What the neighbors heard was the true party when Moose opened one casement window to let out the smoky air. After that, we kept the windows closed. The police apologized to me for coming by because obciously it wasn't disturbing the peace and they went their merry way. Downstairs 40+ bikers drinking two kegs of beer, rowdying, yelling, stereo cranked up to unbelievable levels of music, laughter, and basic pandemonium (lots of wasted people that night) went without a hitch. Had the police heard something louder, they would have had quite a bust on their hands.................................nothing major in illegals as much as just that it was a serious biker party. I had a quad stereo which was unexpected out of a chick in those days, and over 3000 albums so I was always the dj............g The next morning by the way, there was 3 inches of beer on the floor, and a trashcan of broken beer bottles once we trashed and cleaned the basement party room up. It took a long box for the clean up.....And I have pictures of everyone soaked in beer during that party, too. Everyone's hair looked wonderful for a few days GBSEG (my boys slept thru the whole thing once I was able to get them to GO to sleep, parties always wired them up) (and a last minute thought though it should be saved for a different post).........I noted this am a whole row of 10' Leyland cypress are turing light green a brittle.........what is going ON this winter? My husband pointed out pits in our truck windshield yesterday and told me it was volcanic acid rain that was pitting the windshield. Apparently there's been quite a bit of it lately. And windshield glass isn't totally glass so it pits with volcanic acid rain. If you're in the city, you're also getting problems in the moisture from the emmisions from our cars, factories and such. Sad to think we're polluting this planet faster than it can heal. I won't soapbox on this one........... What the deer don't eat, the wet soggy/frozen ground is rotting roots...anyone having this problem? Up in the Smokies, because there are so many more tourists and cars, they're seeing more effects in the trees and such from the pollution. (the area has no car emissions control). Add to that, that anthrachnose has decimated a large portion of the dogwood population, pine beetles are killing the Jack pines at alarming rates, and the devistation of the trees from gypsy moths.........well Nature goes marching on.................... Thus far I have lost a 20' weeping nootkantensis and the deer have eaten over 10 hemlocks, 16 arborvitae and utterly destroyed every euonymous I own (owned)... sounds like time to have some deer in the freezer..................if we don't thin the herds down (there are no preditors in the city except for us, and that responsibility falls to us to maintain a balance) you'll suffer from the excess and overfed states of them by more incidents of lime disease and accidents. nuff said. madgardener rich haynes |
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Dear Mad.
I dunno, maybe I am just in the process of becoming an old fart, lol. Maybe I should just put an ice pick through my eardrums and be done with it BG. I guess I am expecting too much out of people...after all , I AM in New Jersey. Rich **************************************** madgardener wrote: "Rich" wrote in message ... This may not be the right group to ask this question in but I am hoping some other gardeners have had this problem and found a solution. a valid question and rant snipped for space.............................. I love the sounds of nature myself, but had this problem when I lived in the city on a normal street with neighbors all around me. But the shoe was on the other foot. It was ME who dragged my speaked outside of the house to aim them towards the back of my house while I played music to garden by. Nothing like your neighbors hearing Janis Joplin,Moody Blues, Pink Floyd or Allen Parsons Project(among others) on a bright, perfect gardening day. But having said that, and knowing that I cranked it up loud enough to hear it in the back of the yard where all my raised veggie beds were, I will say that I lived about a mile from the Cumberland River and across that was Opryland. And every hour and a half the General Jackson steamboat came down at the ferry road to turn around in the river.........lots of steamboat whistles (I did love those, and knowing John Hartford was the Captain made it special) but the ruckus from Opryland including the fireworks on the 4th and at season's end, and on humid nights the various sounds were crystal clear made sleeping hard if you went to bed before the park closed at 11 during peak season. All around me people owned lawnmowers. The ones with no mufflers. And weedeaters were just coming into the scene. Gardening and yard maintenance wasn't the quiet whirrl or a push mower or constant snip snip snip of pruning shears anymore. I respected my older neighbors and didn't crank my music up until I was sure everyone was awake. and anyone offended by the music, I obliged and turned it down. The surrounding city noises usually made it easier to tolerate. When the neighbor was that rare quiet that you'd not expect in suburbs, I didn't disrupt it with my music. But that was just me. And I still cranked it up when it was sunny and nice outside and I was doing serious garden stuff. I have talked with the other neighbors and while they HEAR it and find it annoying they don't want to say anything (are most people deaf or just sheep?). People are sheep. That the neighbor near you asked YOU to say something says people are reluctant to have confrontations anymore. There is no common decency in a lot of people now. I sat in our truck last night at a light, in a rural but populated town just 14 miles north of us and due to my cold, had the window up. From somewhere, the THROB of rap music was apparent, and despite that I realize I don't live in the city anymore and aren't used to this, my sensitivity to noise became apparent when I started looking for the offending vehicle. This town by the way is a college town, but not like Knoxville with UT, but a smaller, liberal arts college. The throbbing was audible thru our closed windows and we have a good sound insulation in our 1999 Ford truck. I heard myself repeating my mother. the words came right out of my mouth and I was appalled............"they're going to be deaf blasting that crap in their ears" There has been a gap in politeness Rich. My mother allowed me to listen to my music, and it was the 60's and early 70's music, and it was disturbing to her. But I was not allowed to crank it up so loudly that it was broadcast to the neighbor's next door. It had to be contained within my own room, and my dad was quick to buy me headphones once he found out they were basically safe for me to use. And mom would check on me occaisonally to make sure the volumn level wasn't all the way up. I heard way louder when I went to concerts later on.g The one time I had my music up loud enough for my parent's neighbors to hear it and something was said, my dad took my stereo away from me for a week. It taught me if I abused the privilege of having my own stereo and right to listen to anything I wanted, I would be punished for disrespecting other people's similar rights. Perhaps its because they spend most of the winter shut up tight (though the music comes through MY windows) and spend the summer in central air and still keep those windows shut tight. I guess I am weird, I LIKE fresh air........but now its polluted with noise that is so unnecessary. I like fresh air too, and I love my music, but living up here in the country with nature all around me, and having a 74 year old neighbor up the driveway reminds me that I can't be disrespectful of her. She doesn't always like my music and I shouldn't impose my tastes on her. she only hears it when I have it on outside when she comes down the long driveway and closer to my yard. And that's not all the time. BTW, I now listen to modern folk, Celtic, World, some rock, blues, bluegrass,Cajun zydecoe,and a bit of Reggae. I have a 30 year old son who likes Reggae, and even that gets on my nerves sometimes..........it's only occaisonally that I listen to Janis. I like more compilation now. That neighbor hopefully will grow up and mature in his musical likes. I have spoken with the police and while there is a town ordinance again noise above certain decibles, I was told it was rarely enforced....besides I hate the though of having to call the police on a neighbor....not only does it go against my principles (though I have to admit I am ready to throw them out the window in return for some garden serenty) but it may open a bigger can of worms...a ****ed off neighbor. You're right about that. If the neighbor insists his rights are being infringed upon, he won't understand that he's infringing on other's. Oblivious. Buy the guy some headphones with a 100 foot jack......................... now, after a long winded post, my question......... Have any other gardeners run into a problem like this and how did they resolve it (besides moving)? Now regarding this part.........my immediate neighbor next door was a saxaphone player. And his son played drums. And despite that I love music, the jams and practices were enough to cause homicide. I made a deal with them (they liked my music, and across the driveway the other neighbors didn't mind my music either, but I lothed and hated their country music.......grew up in Nashville, over it, but because I dragged my speakers outside to garden sometimes, I felt it wasn't right to ask them to turn their music down) and they complied most of the time. When they moved, I talked with the new neighbors and we made a pact of sorts. When Alex was sleeping, I didn't bring my speakers outside. He'd call out to me to let me know he was up, and I was free to carry on. When we had parties was another story all together....GBSEG But most of the time we contained our ruckus inside. Not too often did the police come by because of music cranked loudly. Of course there was the party for Squire and Spider out in Aurora, Colorado that was called in for loudness, back in 1978 and when they pounded on the door, I answered it and they stood there with their mouths open looking confused. This was the era back then of Sidewalk commando's. Aurora was growing at a rate of 150,000 a year and the cops had attitudes. I lived with bikers, being a little hippie mama myself...you get my drift. They were dumbfounded. Apparently the neighbor's next door had called in to report an extremely raucous and loud party going on at the corner of 16th and Lima. It was our house. But when I opened up the door to them, they could barely even hear music, let alone what had been called in. I told them we did have a party going on, but it was downstairs in the basement. Because the basement door was closed, and the basement was underground with just ground level windows, you didn't hear the 40+ bikers and assorted people partying their asses off below. What the neighbors heard was the true party when Moose opened one casement window to let out the smoky air. After that, we kept the windows closed. The police apologized to me for coming by because obciously it wasn't disturbing the peace and they went their merry way. Downstairs 40+ bikers drinking two kegs of beer, rowdying, yelling, stereo cranked up to unbelievable levels of music, laughter, and basic pandemonium (lots of wasted people that night) went without a hitch. Had the police heard something louder, they would have had quite a bust on their hands.................................nothing major in illegals as much as just that it was a serious biker party. I had a quad stereo which was unexpected out of a chick in those days, and over 3000 albums so I was always the dj............g The next morning by the way, there was 3 inches of beer on the floor, and a trashcan of broken beer bottles once we trashed and cleaned the basement party room up. It took a long box for the clean up.....And I have pictures of everyone soaked in beer during that party, too. Everyone's hair looked wonderful for a few days GBSEG (my boys slept thru the whole thing once I was able to get them to GO to sleep, parties always wired them up) (and a last minute thought though it should be saved for a different post).........I noted this am a whole row of 10' Leyland cypress are turing light green a brittle.........what is going ON this winter? My husband pointed out pits in our truck windshield yesterday and told me it was volcanic acid rain that was pitting the windshield. Apparently there's been quite a bit of it lately. And windshield glass isn't totally glass so it pits with volcanic acid rain. If you're in the city, you're also getting problems in the moisture from the emmisions from our cars, factories and such. Sad to think we're polluting this planet faster than it can heal. I won't soapbox on this one........... What the deer don't eat, the wet soggy/frozen ground is rotting roots...anyone having this problem? Up in the Smokies, because there are so many more tourists and cars, they're seeing more effects in the trees and such from the pollution. (the area has no car emissions control). Add to that, that anthrachnose has decimated a large portion of the dogwood population, pine beetles are killing the Jack pines at alarming rates, and the devistation of the trees from gypsy moths.........well Nature goes marching on.................... Thus far I have lost a 20' weeping nootkantensis and the deer have eaten over 10 hemlocks, 16 arborvitae and utterly destroyed every euonymous I own (owned)... sounds like time to have some deer in the freezer..................if we don't thin the herds down (there are no preditors in the city except for us, and that responsibility falls to us to maintain a balance) you'll suffer from the excess and overfed states of them by more incidents of lime disease and accidents. nuff said. madgardener rich haynes |
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NEIGHBORS STEREO destroys serenty of the garden
Rich,
I have the same problem. One thing that helped was to get a copy of the noise ordinance for my town. The definition of noise was based on a decibel level. I started measuring the neighbors music volume and he was in in violation of the ordinance. With this evidence in hand I was able to get the town to order the volume to be lowered. Unfortunately, it looks like taking the neighbor to court will be an annual affair as the the volume began to creep up again at the end of last summer. --beeky Rich wrote: This may not be the right group to ask this question in but I am hoping some other gardeners have had this problem and found a solution. I've got a neighbor across the street that apparently likes to garden/maintain his house to the beat of a drummer (not a diffeernt drummer, just a drummmer and a 28 piece band BG)..to enhance his listening pleasure he has installed outdoor speakers. HE enjoys it but (he did this as the weather was getting cold late last year (I am in northern NJ)and now with some warmer days happening, so is his 6-8 hour marathons of music) The noise makes the thought of gardening in peace a thing of the past for me. I have lived here for 14 years on a dead end street and its quite peaceful, or WAS until this character decided that his music must be shared with the world. I am perplexed that people cannot just enjoy the sounds of nature when working outside. Yeah sometimes I want to listen to some music myself but I use wireless headphones and no one knows I am listening to The Beatles as loud as I did when I was a thoughtless teenager. I mentioned this to him after a another neighbor (right across the street from him) called me to ask if I would speak to this individual about the loud music. That is when I heard "hey I have the right to play my music during the daytime".....apparently the concept of other peoples right to quiet is beyond his comprehension.OR he just doesn't give a S***~ which is more likely the case. I have talked with the other neighbors and while they HEAR it and find it annoying they don't want to say anything (are most people deaf or just sheep?). Perhaps its because they spend most of the winter shut up tight (though the music comes through MY windows) and spend the summer in central air and still keep those windows shut tight. I guess I am weird, I LIKE fresh air........but now its polluted with noise that is so unnecessary. I have spoken with the police and while there is a town ordinance again noise above certain decibles, I was told it was rarely enforced....besides I hate the though of having to call the police on a neighbor....not only does it go against my principles (though I have to admit I am ready to throw them out the window in return for some garden serenty) but it may open a bigger can of worms...a ****ed off neighbor. now, after a long winded post, my question......... Have any other gardeners run into a problem like this and how did they resolve it (besides moving)? (and a last minute thought though it should be saved for a different post).........I noted this am a whole row of 10' Leyland cypress are turing light green a brittle.........what is going ON this winter? What the deer don't eat, the wet soggy/frozen ground is rotting roots...anyone having this problem? Thus far I have lost a 20' weeping nootkantensis and the deer have eaten over 10 hemlocks, 16 arborvitae and utterly destroyed every euonymous I own (owned)... rich haynes |
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