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Oh man. You poor thing.

Ugh, that sucks. I don't have a LO yet, but we are still in construction in our community, so there's constantly people around and my dog (who has a loud, deep bark) loves to bark at them! Especially when the landscapers come! The guy with the leaf blower is her arch nemesis! I'm already trying to figure out how to defeat the inevitable.

The house next to us was worked on all summer while baby was a newborn but luckily she just slept right through it. It was irritating but I can mainly block out all the yard work noise. I did get upset one time when they left lines down in our yard. I thought it might be power lines and it was after the workers had all gone home so I called the power company to come out, but it was their cable and phone lines. I still was pretty mad that they didn't bother to get them out of our yard or tell us what lines they were putting down, I had two dogs and a baby who I would go out there with. One of the workers apologized the next day when I told him but the owners never bothered. Now they rent the house to big groups of reunion people to party on the weekends (I live in a college town), they're on my people who suck list.

That sucks! Can you have a chat with your neighbor about not scheduling activities quite so early?

Or do you have an HOA? I know our covenants actually spell out neighborhood 'quiet hours' that say no obxious noise or work before X am and after X pm. You might be able to use that to your advantage if it becomes a pattern.

@chopsuey119: how annoying! i'm glad she slept through the noise