11pm On a Sat Night

[valley ranch]

I think in most places a bit of sound is permitted, lawn mower, nail gun, skillsaw, hand grenade~things like that~ until about 11 pm.

 

[Beekissed]

We love our quiet....that's one reason we live out in the sticks so far. Recently my boys had come out to do a little target practice, as they have obtained rifles for the first time(we are a bow hunting family, so not much is done with guns here).

They happened to bring tannerite for a few of their targets....sounded like dynamite going off back on the land. I guess that upset the "from the city" neighbor's little yip yip dogs and it also upset my own, so I can understand the frustration of that.

That happened one time, in the middle of the day, mind you, before the neighbor thought he would complain to my mother about it. 364 days a year we are as quiet as vespers here and one day of boomshakalaka and he feels he can dictate what goes on here on our property? Nope. Not happening. Ever.

So we did it one more time to show him he can't dictate what goes on over here on our patch of land.

No more than we can dictate when he runs his 4 wheeler all over the land right next to our boys hunting back on our land, just so he can ruin their hunting. Or brushhogs his land every other week, which sounds like twenty big rigs working in a car crushing plant...lots of roaring and banging as he hits every stump on his land~WHY doesn't he work those out??? Or how his SIL rips up the road we share, throwing the gravel WE buy off the road and my little ol' Ma has to go down and fix the road all the time. Or how often they run that very road daily....ten thousand trips out and back...where in the world do they GO that often when none of them work???? Right...none of our business, as what we do is none of theirs.

NY, your land. Period. As long as it's only on occasion and it's not a daily, weekly or even monthly thing, those people should consider themselves lucky, lucky, lucky to have a mostly quiet neighbor. I say to all the neighbors who don't appreciate a mostly quiet neighbor having the occasional loud noise....get over it.

 

[Carol Dee]

@Beekissed we have 2 acre a little way out of town, but there is a rural subdivision close. So any time the guys go out for target practice they are careful not to keep it up for hours. They like to hunt deer and occasionally turkey there but the neighbors in said subdivision run the 4 wheelers day and night managing to have chased away a good share of the animals we'd hunt. He THINKS he is a hunter and complains to my DH there at no animals to hunt.... DUH. There where before he and his kids moved in.
On July 4th the guys have set off tannerite a time or two. No complaints. Done in day light hours. No rocking anyone out of bed.

 

[thistlebloom]

I'm with Bee on this. You don't do this habitually so your neighbors should keep things in perspective. It would be good though to know what the ordinances are for noise.

Here, it's 11, and fireworks are not legal, but everybody has them and shoots them, and we don't mind at all if they're reasonable.

I think that in my neighborhood, where we all shoot occasionally, and a few folks have built ranges, the kids across the street wouldn't have attracted any negative attention at all if they had stopped after a couple of hours. But a two day marathon, even though legal during daylight hours, is just un-neighborly, especially when they were asked to take a break from it and they snarked back.
They told the deputy who came to talk to them, at my request, that they were stopping, not because the neighbors asked, or because he showed up, but because they were out of ammo.

 

[seedcorn]

Fireworks around the 4th is OK. It's April. If it's a light show, neighbors should deal with it. Sound display, sets dogs off. I'd probably over look it unless it was every weekend. Then midnight.

Bees situation is different in that it is happening during day. Noise during day, ok. To me, kind of like people moving to country and complaining about livestock smell. Where do you want them raised at. Animals/manure stink. Deal with it.

 

[Beekissed]

Take it from someone who worked nights for most of her life.....sound in the day is definitely NOT okay, no more than it is at night. It's much, much harder to sleep in the daytime anyway, then add more road noises, the phone ringing incessantly, more people just making the sounds of living~lawnmowers, separating cows from calves, working on cars and trucks, birds singing, etc. and it's a pure nightmare to get any sleep in the day.

Fireworks are meant to be set off at night so you can see the pretty colors.

Don't get me wrong...I LOVE and cherish my quiet here and work on keeping it. We don't have TV, no radios blaring, I've trained the dogs to keep quiet unless it's something serious and even then they can only give a few barks, and even the roosters are expected to only crow in the early mornings....none of that racket all day or they have to answer to me. I've had whole pens of roosters here, awaiting their time on the butcher line, and the neighbors never knew of it....I love my quiet.

But...I also love my freedom to make a loud noise on occasion if need be. Once or twice a year doesn't ever hurt anyone.

 

[thistlebloom]

Both my kids worked nights for a couple of years. It's hard for night workers, but also hard on the family trying to go about their daily chores as quietly as possible. And of course there's nothing you can do about the sounds in the neighborhood.
I definitely have sympathy for those in that situation.

Bee, I'm curious about how you train roosters to be quiet during the day.

 

[Beekissed]

It has something to do with who is in charge. Mostly, subordinate roosters crow very little, if at all, when there is an established dominant rooster. I'm that rooster.

I started noticing years ago that, no matter what breed or age of rooster I had, they were very quiet. I'd read about other people and how they were dealing with roosters crowing all the time and bothering the neighbors and I'd visit homes where the roosters crowed all day too....very annoying.

Then I got a pen of 13 roosters from various places, various ages and breeds for butchering one fall and held them over for a few weeks to feed them up on better feed for better tasting meat. This meant I would have to go in a pen full of strange roosters and feed and water them without getting attacked, so I just took the time to let them know who was in charge by not letting them come to the feeder until I allowed them to do so. As a side bonus, after letting them know who was in charge, I also noticed they never crowed after that except at daybreak and even then only a few of them crowed.

That was interesting.

Then I attended a memorial service held out in the country and there were some free range chickens there. Every time someone was trying to talk, one rooster kept crowing and crowing right next to the service so that no one could hear the speaker. So, I quietly got up and approached the mouthy beast and kept moving him each time he tried to position himself to crow. Took only a few minutes of such pressure but he got the message and never crowed the rest of the day.

Even more interesting.

So, now when I get a flock master, I let him know he's not in charge here and that seems to give me a more quiet bird. I LOVE quiet chickens and dogs.

 

[canesisters]

I don't mind most noise. Heck, I live fairly close to Fort Pickett so we often have the distant rumbles of heavy artillery all night long.
Fireworks across the street are a TOTALLY different story. One of my dogs reacts BADLY and will get himself into such a tizzy that he will start seizing. I drug him on July 4 and New Years Eve because I know the folks across the street are going to set off fireworks. A couple of yeas ago the started it up at 10:30 on a random week night. I thought I was hearing gun fire and called the police. While I was on the phone to dispatch I heard a few more "POP!POP!POP!"s and saw the sparkles through the trees. I told her that it was only fireworks and she said that they already had an officer on the way so he would discuss with them the fact that they had neighbors trying to sleep... and that fireworks are illegal here.

Maybe the fact that it is USUALLY so quiet at your place made the sudden, unexpected noise that much more upsetting?
Who knows, maybe the neighbor had just had a REALLY bad day and being kept up was the last straw...?

 

[Nyboy]

I think what bothered me was as Bee stated " Freedom to make a loud noise on accasion" Remember this is a house emphty most of the month, quite as a graveyard. I also did not have a large amount of fireworks, a couple left over from July 4. We are talking a few mintues not hours.