Since it’s obviously going to be a regular thing for the house across the street to blast off, I downloaded some nature sounds. I don’t like to write to music, and since I only have one sound machine that’s in the bedroom, I thought writing to rain showers and chirping birds would be better than music. Of course it won’t drown out the barking and screaming that’s coming next door, but it’ll take care of smaller sounds. Tom is going to fix the wireless headphones which I’d prefer to use when the noise levels get bad. This way I can move around the place with them.

Tom says it’s very common nowadays not to have dogs if you have little kids, but I know that if they’re going next to us they’ll have dogs. I don’t know how many or if they’ll be allowed indoors, but they’ll have at least one that’s plenty annoying enough on top of all the screaming, barbecuing and whatever else they plan on doing back there.