Good evening, my friends. Busy day today.
There is a hydraulic fracturing site across the street and on the other side of our only neighbor’s house.
The noise from their work is horrible, but we can’t hear it because The Fortress (our house) is made of brick and double-paned glass windows.
The only thing we can hear, without opening a door or window, is an enormous machine that has huge treads on it and sounds like a freight
train at top speed as it crawls along doing whatever it does. We’re not close enough to get a good look at any of that stuff, and I’m not about
to go snooping around over there. We have no sidewalks here.
Our neighbor is not so lucky. She lives in the former school house, and the noise is hard on her and her son who has terminal heart disease.
I do offer her a sympathetic ear when we talk on the phone, but all this noise is difficult for them.
The good news is that the frackers have finished (or suspended) their work near her house, and they’ve moved on toward the north and west
of us, we assume to start on the platform and drilling rig for another segment of the hydraulic fracturing grid.
They’re starting over with building roads and burying pipelines. We hope that they start mining soon.
Bryan is fine, the cats are fine, and it was a nice day today. We have so many windows on the south side of the house that it is an effective
solar heater, and the 40° outside temperatures today never triggered the heater because of the sunshine. The thermostat is set at 64° in winter
and 70° in summer.
Oh my goodness I hate loud noises..that keep on and on..I am glad you are so well insulated from it and the cold..
Sympathy for your neighbor..
I am loving this mild fall weather..no more triple digit days.
All is well with me and mine..Back agony abated and bit by bit I have been getting long neglected chores done..with lots of rests in between and uncharacteristic patience.
I am SO grateful to God for this break.
Good evening, TOL.
So good to see you here today.
Loud noises bother me because it makes it harder to hear. Can’t be that my hearing is getting worse. :)
I had a busy day ..... don’t know what I did all day, but I hope it was productive. :)
Hope you had a wonderful day.
Sorry you have Tinnitus! I have that from a Head Injury 19 Years Ago.
The Cold Weather, for Some Reason, Always Makes mine Louder.
But in the Summertime the Volume Blessedly Goes Down.