Thursday, October 22, 2009

In Memory




In memory of my little pepper who lost his fight with a heart valve problem yesterday 10/21/09.

Monday, October 19, 2009

waging a war!!

Ok...so a little background before I go into my huge tirade about WHY I am waging a personal war.
The back yard USED to be a beautiful greenbelt area....deer ( a lot of them) wandered around in there and there were no privacy issues. It was part of what made the house so awesome!


Fast forward to the last few months: The deer have mostly been trapped and removed, the news that the new Boerne library was going in that lot surfaced, AND last but not least, The aforementioned greenbelt has become the holding ground for heavy equipment and large cement..."THINGS" for a road crew that is working down on main street.

It is bad enough that the land now looks like a muddy parking lot for bulldozers and cranes and whatnot, but I could actually live with that. The reason I wage my personal war is the fact that they have decided that the middle of the night is a GREAT TIME to move said equipment, and work on the road, to avoid the hassle of daily traffic on main street.

Picture if you will: It is 1:45am..you are sleeping soundly, its a beautiful night, so you have a window open....BEEP BEEP BEEP *CRASH CRASH* BEEP BEEP BEEP!!!!! Yes, thats right...back up signals and headlights and heavy machinary in your back yard, waking you up....30 minutes of the racket!!!
Finally you drift off again...a bit cranky but too tired to care at this point.....5:37am and again.....BEEP BEEP CRASH BANG CRASH BEEP BEEP!!!! At this point, bleary eyed, cranky, and lacking the majority of that nights sleep, you stumble in to prepare for an extra busy day at work.
Night falls and by 8 you are so tired you are glad to just fall into bed.....and again...night two, it begins again!!

This has been an ongoing problem for several months now, and it will happen for a few nights (till someone complains) then stop for a few nights, then resume yet again.

I have complained to the city, who tells me its a private company contracted through TX DOT....so I called TX DOT this morning and basically was told "too bad!". and this my friends is where the battle begins!!

Step one of said battle: hand out flyers to the entire neighborhood with the name and number and contact information of who to call to complain.
Step two: find out if TXDOT really can ignore city sound ordinances, as they say they can, or if they are yankin my chain

Stay posted!!!