We’ve been in this house for over 13 years now and our road is finally being paved. It has been in a sad sorry state for the past couple years and last year when they dug up the streets for the new gas lines that made them even worse. Now we have them milling the streets and getting ready to repave. Although it appears that they have stopped and also left strage ares unmilled. Only half the street has been milled and there are gaps all over. Then the signs that had been put up saying that there was a parking ban from June 10 – 13 got duct tape put on them to change the dates from the 10-13 to 16-22. So it is going to take even longer. It would be nice to see a nice new street and hopefully not too long after new sidewalks. Ours are chewed up.
We have some really high hedges between our house and the tenement next door. I had tried to get our neighbor to trim them last year but he flaked on me so I didn’t get it done last year. The hedges were well over 12 feet tall and when the wind blew they would scrape the side of the house that became very annoying. So, I had a guy come out and do it. He did most of it with hand trimmers and it is cut back. I will have to keep after it from now on. It got so overwhelming and so large that I looked at the task and got anxiety over it. It was well worth it to pay someone to do it. It looks a lot better now.
Part of the reason that I hadn’t done much with it was because of the next door neighbors. I wanted as much between us and them as possible. Unfortunately a hedge does not block out the noise. That just blasts right through it.
