So far, the kids next door have been seen, but not heard. I did hear a minute’s worth of voices and laughter when I was in the kitchen earlier, but I’m pretty sure it came from across the canal. It was nice today and it’s to be even nicer tomorrow at 68º. Of course attention-getters love it and so between the stereos crashing down the street in front every few minutes and the dog going crazy in back, I put my headphones on to escape it all. Now things are winding down nicely.

When I got up at 2:30, I could see 4 or 5 kids with shovels in front of the house. I started to wonder if they were delinquents. Not criminal delinquents, but in a group home they set up over there for troubled kids since they’re home at that time. Tom pointed out that college kids’ schedules aren’t like regular jobs, and that management probably stressed to them the fact that they’ll need to care for the place.

It just seemed rather odd, all of them working diligently together, even amazing. There’s also the fact that all these kids seem to be in bed by midnight and they don’t blast music from either inside or outside the house. Tom thinks that they probably don’t blast it inside because they all wouldn’t agree on the same kind of music, and that if they do have car stereos, they’re far enough away on the other side of the house that they’d just blend in with all the ones that drive by.

I saw the black dog being led toward the front of the house, but I still can’t believe it lives there. We’d have to have heard it by now if it did. It better not live there! They’d have to chain it to the fence to keep it in the yard anyway.

Tom says he’s seen them hanging out on the deck on the other side and doubts they’ll switch to the yard in the summer since the deck is shaded and right off their kitchen. There’s no entry door on this side, fortunately. Either way, it’s still too soon to know for sure what kind of trouble they may cause.

We canceled our subscription with Netflix, and as far as signing up for the radio for a year goes, I don’t think it’s worth it. Sure the unlimited song-skipping is nice and so is not having commercials and having higher quality music, but you can’t get every single song they have and they’ve been playing less variety since we went premium. Perhaps I’ll just deal with the commercials and limited skip time for free. I can always play my own music files when my monthly limit is up. We got the recorder up and running again so I can snag whatever’s playing.

Since my sweeping’s done and I have nothing more to update on, other than that I ordered the last wig, a $35 21” red wig, and am to save up for the sitting mannequin next, I shall escape to the wonderful world of fantasy and fun and work on my story.