Dear Habitat, you suck.

[rootofnewt]

Why am I awake? It's not because my son can't handle the time change.

No. It's because the frickin' construction zone that was once our lovely ravine is being clear cut and levelled some more and the heavy equipment is making a racket. I HATE those beeping back-up noises. I can sleep through the widescale destruction, but not the beeping.

It actually woke Ronan up when the tree felling started, but I managed to get him back to sleep. And it wasn't his normal happy wake-up, it was the screaming cry of a baby who is startled awake.

I already looked up city noise ordinances. I think they're exempt from the daytime noise limitations.

One more reason Habitat will never, ever get money or time from me again. This does not make for a good neighborhood. They could wait until 8am to bring out the nasty machines. I hope they all get poison ivy on their balls.

Comments

[kesara.livejournal.com]

I hope they all get poison ivy on their balls.

LMAO! I have to remember this one the next time someone pisses me off. :-)

And yes, a thousand curses upon Habitat for starting construction before 8am. WTF???

[krasota.livejournal.com]

I sleep past 9am most days, but I'm willing to agree that 8am is an appropriate start for the workday. I may grumble and grouse, but yeah. 8am. Okay.

7am? In a residential neighborhood? HELL, NO!

In other news, I finally made my morning espresso, so I should be in a better mood shortly.

Of course, by better, I may well mean energetically vengeful. We'll see.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I'm reminded of being 7 or so, and having a massive pelvis-down poison oak rash, from having used the bushes to pee while playing down at the creek (I grew up like that, pee where it's convenient if a toilet's not near), and apparently squatting into leaves.

My mom sighed, applied manzanita compresses, and said, "What did I tell you? You *know* what poison oak looks like!" And I do, I can spot it in all forms, in all seasons, I was just 7, and had to pee.

Also, krasota, our 7 am pile driver, after weeks and weeks in our neighborhood, seems to have moved on, as the freeway widening nears completion.

[inahappycrowd.livejournal.com]

Is that Habitat for Humanity?

[krasota.livejournal.com]

Yes.

I prefer Habitat for Pileated Woodpeckers.

They don't operate heavy machinery unless it's to knock down buildings and plant native trees.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Pileated woodpeckers aren't quieter, though ;)

[krasota.livejournal.com]

Yes, but when they used to do their monkey-bird screams back there, it didn't pierce into my bedroom. Odd, eh? Just a different frequency, I guess.