Yesterday wasn’t as maddening as the day before but it was annoying enough every time one of those fucking tractors went by our place. They worked mostly on the other side of the park. Luckily they’re taking the weekend off so we get a break. Hopefully, the asphalt will be laid next week and it won’t take the whole two weeks they said it may take because I can’t hold my schedule back that long. In less than a week, I’m going to be starting to sleep in.

So what’s next? New sidewalks? A new fence in back? He doesn’t think they’ll replace either but I’m sure they’ll find something to do to annoy the residents with. From what we can tell, we’re far from the only ones annoyed. This isn’t something you just hear going on in the background like the planes. This is totally earth-shattering. They even warned us in their notice about it saying that it will be loud and dusty. Yeah, we could see dust flying all over the place. They scraped 2 inches off the surface of our street.

I noticed that the people here don’t seem to have as much company as at the other place and I wonder if it’s because their kids don’t live in the area or there just aren’t as many parents here with more of the residents being younger and closer to my age where it started getting more common not to have any.

The weather has been surprisingly dry. It’s still hot and humid but I thought it would rain at least twice a week after the rainy season ended. I wonder if this is normal or if the drought really did follow us in a sense, LOL.

Been working on building the doghouse. Cutting and sizing pieces of foam. Foam that’s meant for soundproofing. We’re going to attach a layer of soundproofing material to each section. We decided where to put the fan too. I just hope it’s done before they get back next door! God only knows what project they’ll do as well.

The light coming through the window where the desk is was so bright that I hung one of the purple light-filtering curtains in that window. It may not help keep it cooler but it’s definitely keeping it from being so blinding. On quiet days like today, there’s no reason not to be out in that office unless I was really doing some heavy writing or something. But it was so bright I could barely watch my show because it was like trying to watch it outdoors in the bright sunlight.

When I saw that season three of You just hit Netflix, we rejoined for a while because there are things he wants to see as well.

Anyway, now that I can see how much light these curtains let in, I can say that it’s definitely too much for the bedroom! Blackouts have gotta stay. I’ll put the other one in the window of the second bedroom.