Advice for coping with next-door construction?

Classof2015
Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:04:24 +0000

Saddest part will be seeing the old house being torn down.



For years, we looked out through our kitchen window onto a beautiful old Tudor house that was not occupied (so in essence, we had the perfect neighbors). Periodically, “Bob” would come down from Connecticut to mow the lawn. We were friendly with him, and he with us. Then our side neighbors (who would have qualified for a bit part in one of those shows I don’t watch – desperate housewives of the New Jersey Shore) – charmed Bob into selling them his house. Which they didn’t need. And which they said they would restore, but which was torn down in a series of awful clawing motions by John Deere trucks. And they built a ginormous* cheap boxy structure in its place. And they took down all the trees.

To me, trees are like heroic mute animals – benign, protective, and unable to speak for themselves.

We moved.

*SAT word