I hope you will pardon me this morning but, I have a bit of a rant this morning. I know there is nothing you van do about the situation and frankly, neither can or should I, but I will feel better writing it and getting it off of my chest. 

I used to live in a quiet neighborhood. For twenty years we have lived in this house (hard tp believe) and it was peaceful. My yard is fenced in so there are no stray dogs running through my yard, although as you know I do have the occasional wandering neighbors cat that I have to pop in the butt to keep them from catching one of my Backyard Buffet guests. 

I told you that the house immediately behind me sold, and the first thing the new owners did was put up a six-foot privacy fence all the way around their back yard so that no one can look in. That’s okay, it is their property and they have a right to their privacy, regardless of how rude it might seem. I have introduced myself to the Lady that lives there one day as I was driving by the front of their house and she was out by her mailbox. I welcomed her to the neighborhood by explaining that I lived on the other side of her fence. She said they put the fence up because they have dogs. There-in lies the problem. 

 I don’t know how many dogs they have but I suspect there are two and they are Beagles, and Beagles, by their nature, bark —— a lot! Beagles bark at everything; other animals, sounds, smells, cars going by, hearing me walk in my yard —— they bark. They can’t see what they are barking at because of the privacy fence, so they just bark. And I doubt the owners even realize it because they both work. 

My neighbor to the north has a dog, Lilly. Lilly will bark when I go outside, if she happens to be out. But Lilly is just waiting for me to talk to her and pet her. My neighbor to the south has a dog, a huge one named Max who will occasionally bark and again I talk to it and he will come romping up to me for petting. The neighbor to my southwest also has a dog. But if it starts yapping, they will quickly make it stop. So it isn’t as if we have a dog free zone around here. And in all fairness, the beagles don’t constantly bark  —— just enough and long enough to be aggravating every day, multiple times a day. Neighbor Dan and I call them the “Beagle-roosters”, because they like to greet the morning.  

So, I guess my rant is that the new neighbors have shattered the peace and quiet of my neighborhood. It just seems very rude of people to move into a neighborhood, throw up a privacy fence so no one can see them, with a couple of dogs that bark all the time and the people have no regard for their neighbors. And. The real problem is that I don’t like them, —- and I don’t like not liking them because that makes me seem petty. So how did their irritating, barking dogs become my guilt??? I mean , what the heck???? Oh well, I feel better now that I have said it. Rant over ——- Have a wonderful PEACEFUL day.