Quote Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl View Post
yeah, that is such a bummer. Put up a sign of some sort in the area where she's doing it maybe? You could get creative!
Or if there is a bunch of you annoyed by it, someone could turn on a radio really loudly when she starts in.

My new neighbor likes to spend all day out on her deck yakking aimlessly on her cell phone. She goes on hour after hour. She's not hollering, but her voice is one of those that strongly carries over distances. She's about 40 yards from me, but I can hear every word as though she were standing next to me. I swear she has no idea how her voice carries. I cough, I sigh, I bang shovels and make noise so she knows I'm right there gardening or trying to relax in my yard. She's clueless. I'm a captive prisoner to her boring endless yakfests.
Once my DH started saying "BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH!!!" really loudly, but she still didn't 'get it'. lol! We'll see how the situation progresses this summer.
Oh I sooooo know what you are going through. When I bought my house, there was nothing but woods for an entire block in the back yard. I came home after being away for a week, and found the entire block had been cleared. The house behind me is probably about 5,000 sf, and not 50 feet away - built right up to the setbacks. My neighbor, her husband, their grown sons all use their "outside voices" all the time. And then there's the 3 little yippy dogs that bark at the wind, at shadows, at cars, at people walking down my street - 500' away... The fun never stops. Even if I am behind closed doors, with my own TV or stereo on, and with the A/C or Furnace running I can hear them talking on the phone, or watching TV on their screened porch. Yikes! I've been tempted to crank up my music to overpower them, but it would overpower me too.