Neighbors out in backyard last night 1:30 am

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debodun

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I woke up at 1:30am this morning and realized I hadn't put the garbage can out for collection. I never know when the truck will be coming - could be anytime between 5 am and 2 pm - so I put a jacket on over my nightgown and started out. The people next door were out and sitting around a fire they started. It was pretty dark and it looked like 3 women sitting around the fire (this is the same property that the junk pile is on that I posted about last week). I suspect they are new tenants since that house is broken up into 4 apartments. When they saw me walking out to the garage, they started giggling and calling "Hello" and laughing again. I didn't speak to them. At least they didn't have loud music playing, but it struck me as odd why peple would be outside at that time and because it was pretty cold then. I didn't expect that or I would have put on something more, at least jeans.
 

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I guess it's your choice if you want to speak to them or not. If they had said hello to me I would have said it back. Maybe they needed to get some fresh air during this isolation. I was outside with my dog one night at 12:30 and have thought about going out there at even later..to each his/her own I say.

I haven't read your other post about loud music, though, but know it would bother me if I was trying to sleep.
 
Aunt Bea said:
A few decades ago it might have been me sitting around the firepit having a shot of peppermint schnapps at 1:30 am.

I agree with others I would have responded with a cheery hello in the interest of neighborly relations.
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Same here. Besides, people are having to stay at home so why not stay up late and enjoy a fire. I don't spend much time worrying about what others are doing or why.
 
We have a firepit in the middle of our property and often sit outside by the fire, so do some of our neighbors at their homes. I would have said hello and joined them for at lest a few minutes. If they had been men I wouldn't have but I see nothing wrong with sitting around a fire at night visiting with neighbors. In 26 years here I've never invited my neighbors in my house but outside is fine. When your front gets too hot you stand up and put your backside to the fire. Laughing and giggling sounds fine. Maybe they had a little wine or some Tequila and as long as they weren't fighting or arguing I'd have been fine with it. I too hate LOUD music, especially when I'm trying to talk. I would also be upset about the junk pile, very upset about that!
 
Neighbors can be strange. Our back fence neighbors had crack head kids who would walk around the back yard in the wee hours. We'd find all kinds of crap they threw into our yard. After they moved, it became a rental and we've had a real variety of characters. Last week Dave noticed the current people came out in the yard at about nine o'clock with flashlights. No idea what they were doing. Whatever it was, they did it a few nights in a row. They have a large dog that our little Chihuahua mix dog is in love with! She scratches at the fence and runs up and down with the dog on the other side. I hope these tenants stay for a while. They're the best of the bunch.
 
This is a street view of the property next to mine. The owner's warehouse is the white building on the left, the rental unit is the brick house. The "social" area I circled in red. This is an old pic, whoever had the umbrellas has long moved away, but you get the idea, that's where the tenants hang out if they're so inclined. My property is next past this - where the big trees are.

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My opinion about neighbours....would rather not have any....enjoyed the solitude at the farm. As far as neighbours in town, they don't seem to bother with each other at the best of times, get togethers they may have, is just fine, as long they're respectful to others. The ones on my south side won't speak at all, glad i have a wood fence in the back, semi private, but can still see their junk, they have a storage shed, which he took down a week ago, i thought great, an eyesore not having to look at......guess what..... he has rebuilt it 5 feet from my fence, so now there's a closer vision of their junk. It's not just a few things here and there, it's a whole pile of stuff, everywhere, can't imagine what the inside of their house looks like.
 
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