Oh good heavens what an evening. The house next door to my parents' at the lake is a rental. The family reunion that always happens there on Memorial Day is usually no problem at all. Well... They have been very noisy at night..ok, loud voices, we can ignore that. But tonight, they started shooting off big fireworks between the house and the garage and within 50-75 feet of our house, starting well after 10:30 PM and on a very windy night.
Now we have 2-80 year olds and a very pregnant woman who was exhausted, not feeling well and trying to sleep.
So first I stuck my head outside and said that it was very dangerous to be shooting the fireworks off where they were and that it was illegal. They got really mouthy about it and pretended like they were going to quit, but my DN Adam and I knew they weren't so we each grabbed a beer and sat in our back yard. Then they really got nasty going off about how we were spoiling their memorial day and that the wind was taking them over the road toward a field anyway. (It wasn't).
I said something about having someone who is sick and trying to sleep and Ad said something about it being a residential neighborhood and how they could enjoy their weekend without being noisy.
So, I suggested we just shut up and listen, which we did. The grandparents of this crew are my former middle school principal and the home ec teacher he married after he divorced his wife. So she's out there hugging this guy, telling him that she'll bail him out of jail and telling a group of little kids that if the cops come they should all tell the same story.
Sheesh! Anyway, they were loud for a little while longer, blasting music about 11:15-11:30 pm but now it's quiet.
The internet was really slow earlier and this is an unsecured network, so I figured they were using it. So I unplugged the router for awhile. It's really fast again. I was tired....
