(*&#(&$@# dog!

[billeyler]

Okay, short of actually shooting the dog next door, I think we've both HAD it and have to take serious steps to get this situation resolved. This poor German Shepherd next door (and I mean literally 10 feet from the house) is so bored and lonely from it's 24/7 existence without human company that it howls or barks incessantly from 6 in the morning till people stop walking their dogs past that house.

Oh, yes...all the steps have been taken in the past with complaints to the animal control and the like, but we'll have to do more than that now.

Don't know if I can deal with another summer weekend of not being able to sleep past 6am. It's fine in the winter with the new heavily insulted windows, but open windows in the summer here are a must.

Other than THAT, it's a lovely summer day here, and now that houseguest Indiana Mike has taken off to the Jemez Mtns to teach his one-week art camp, I can get lots more accomplished. He spent the day yesterday on a white-water rafting trip in the Rio Grande, so I took that opportunity to get a lot of productive hours in. And more today!

My old childhood friend, Dale, sent me some recent and LONG ago pics this morning, including some from 1976 when I was this big-haired skinny 22 year old working at the Grand Canyon. Where did all that hair go! Of course the moustache is there, pre "Just For Men"...I'll have to figure out how to post pics on here...

abqdan is back from California at 7:30 tonight, so that'll be good to have him to snuggle up with again. Missed him! He called last night while I was out working to 'gloat' about being at the ocean...good thing we travel a lot so he can get his sea-view fixes!

Comments

[davidlevine]

For some inexplicable reason this post made me think of the song Kill The Dog Next Door by the wacky Canadian band The Arrogant Worms. Unfortunately, reading the lyrics doesn't convey the happy, bouncy tune.

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

Those are certainly "acting out" lyrics! ;-) A $300 fine...hmmm.

No, I won't go there!

There's a backstory to this, which is probably all too typical, but to cut to the chase, we suspect the lovely, well-kept brick home next door owned by the widow of a prominent Albuquerque restauranteur has morphed into an eyesore that is likely either a crack house or meth den of the granddaughter...

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

Sorry about the dog problem. While you try to resolve it, you could try earplugs -- the dense foam kind work well for me, letting me sleep though snoring and other problem noises.

Pictures: I'm sure we'd all love to see them [heh]. You can upload them through the Journal->Pictures->manage dialog, or if you use a client like Semagic, drag and drop onto the open Fotobilder window for upload, which then drops the URL for the uploaded photo into your cut-and-paste buffer for incusion via CTL-ALT-I (for Image) or the like. Easy once you've done it a few times. Previously, you had to have your own picture storage setup somewhere so you could use an external URL.

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

Earplugs are great...I've always used them on airplanes and always have them available for roomies, since I have a snore (so they say). Somehow if I use them to sleep with myself, I wake up in the morning with them across the room, or down at the foot of the bed, NEVER in my ears!

Hopefully, in a year or two, I'll be up to speed on the LJ ins and outs!

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

There's a trick to using them -- roll them between your fingers to make a thin roll, then quickly slip them into your ear canal. The goal is to have them almost (but not quite) to your eardrum. When they expand, they'll be very securely wedged in there. If they're falling out, they're either not very good ones, they're too old, or you're not getting it in deep enough. [bet you hear that a lot! - heh.]