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Jim Bremner 05-29-2010 09:22 AM

I live in a town that regulates EVERY THING!

7 am is the law to use heavy equipment and leaf blowers here.

The City's Gardner's building is 100 yards from my bedroom window. I sleep with the windows open.

They start engines and back up heavy trucks with the BEEP BEEP alarms at 6:30!

I've fired off many emails but the mayor could give a rat's balloon knot.

Right next to the Gardner's building there's a tennis court. Some summer nights people like to play till 11 ! The lights do turn off at 11 so most people leave.

I've have to call the cops once or twice a month for people playing in the dark @ 2 am!

I get woken up several times a week at 6:30 by tennis players or Gardner's.

I will relish the day that I sell my house.

pwd72s 05-29-2010 09:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tidybuoy (Post 5377041)
I'd wait until 9. For the record, I always mow on Thursday evenings; that way I always can enjoy my yard on the weekends.


HOOT! Spoken like a true Californian. Up here, we mow when we get a dryish day. I plan on mowing later today...probably start around 1 or 2, end around 5 or 6.

Yeah...8 is too soon.

Scuba Steve 05-29-2010 02:09 PM

In San Antinio it gets nasty hot in the summer. 8am doesn't sound unreasonable, but 8pm would probably be better. You really have two choices - in the morning at 75-80 degrees / 100% humidity or when it's dusk at 95 degrees and a lower humidity. Neither are any fun.

Hugh R 05-29-2010 02:27 PM

I have a gardner, he mows the lawn sometime on Wednesday afternoons.

911Rob 05-29-2010 02:47 PM

8AM is too early for mowing, but not for sawing logs :)

Dixie 05-29-2010 03:38 PM

If you live in the south, you mow around 7:00am, or 7:00pm. By 9:00am it's way to friggin' hot.

Eric Coffey 05-29-2010 04:55 PM

8AM = too early, especially on the weekend.
Better to do it the night before, @ 7pm-ish then relax with a scotch and cigar admiring your work and the sunset. :D

morganb 05-29-2010 06:21 PM

8 AM is ok for weekdays, 9.00 AM for weekends.

nostatic 05-29-2010 06:25 PM

I would consider launching mortar rounds at someone who fired up a lawnmower close to my place on a Saturday before 10am. 8am is ridiculous. I rarely get to sleep before midnight, and usually my best sleep is between 6-10am for some reason. Since I can't sleep that late on the weekdays due to the boy and work, the weekends are the only time.

Shuie 05-29-2010 06:44 PM

It can easily be ~100 around here by 10AM during the Summer. I try to wait until I hear at least one other person mowing, but I tend to mow whenever I feel I have less of a chance of stroking out in the yard from the heat. It has been raining in the afternoon here for the last three days. I can hear my grass growing right now :)

red-beard 05-29-2010 06:57 PM

Ah - low, sustained, booming noises. Nine, nine-fifteen.

wcc 05-29-2010 07:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by morganb (Post 5377785)
8 am is ok for weekdays, 9.00 am for weekends.


+1

DARISC 05-29-2010 08:40 PM

Why ask here? Why not ask the neighbors that you are concerned about offending?

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fintstone 05-29-2010 09:25 PM

I would never mow before 10 AM. Lots of folks work late and sleep in. If my neighbor was out mowing at 8 AM...I would probably mow mine about 2 AM and see if he likes it.

Oh Haha 05-30-2010 03:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DARISC (Post 5377926)
Why ask here? Why not ask the neighbors that you are concerned about offending?

I didn't want to annoy them by mowing why would I go to their house and bother them?:confused:

It was more of a general question anyway.

Rick V 05-30-2010 03:45 AM

Sure ya can mow at 8am, as long as you don't mind me playing my guitar at 3am

dhoward 05-30-2010 06:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Talewinds (Post 5377165)
I'm surprised to read so many responses that agree with my own sensibilities. I think 8am is fine, and I'm NOT a "morning person." I just expected most people to say that 8am would be more than late enough to start. Maybe I need to move west.

Here in the midwest, well, St. Louis is an EARLY, EARLY town. If it were not so frowned upon, there would be people mowing at 6am all the time, and not just because of the summer heat.

What St. Louis do YOU live in?

quaz 05-30-2010 06:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by morganb (Post 5377785)
8 AM is ok for weekdays, 9.00 AM for weekends.

On the weekdays you have to get up for work anyway so if you sleep till 8am you need to get up anyway. On the weekends I need quite till at least 9am. Like yesterday for instance, I tied one on Friday night and some idiot thought 8am was fine to mow. It was like a jackhammer in the middle of my head. Too early! Shhhhhh quiet.


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