Saturday, June 7, 2014

Jer was out in the front chipping away at the wall to install the dryer vent and the neighbor upstairs came down with her boyfriend and son.  She is Angie, her son is Logan, and her boyfriend is Tracy.  They were very nice to welcome us and talk about things in the complex.  She is mad at one of the neighbors for parking in her spot sometimes.  She had a lot to say about that.  She says she will keep an eye out for anything happening at our place when we are gone.  She sort of oversees the parking lot and what goes on here.  She said some boys broke into this condo a while back before it was ours and she got the police to come run them out.  I think we’re safe with her looking out for us.  

The dryer vent didn’t go well, but Jer finally got it sorted out and ready for hookup.  The next step was seeing if the washer hookups would work.  We dollied the washer over to the spot and hooked up the hoses and one of them leaked.  It was a hose that was frozen onto the faucet so we had to get a plumber.  It was too late to call today so we will do it Monday.  But now we know and we can do it. 

Later that evening Angie was out watering the flower bed by our window.  I heard a strange whining sound seeming to come from the kitchen and I said to the frig, don’t you dare go out!!  And then I noticed that every time Angie changed the flow of the water to the flowers the sound changed, so, whew!  It wasn’t the frig but the water.   I guess that was her very own flower bed.  It’s pretty there.  They also have two outside cats that wander the stairs and parking lot.  We have kitty prints on our windshield some mornings. 

As far as sounds, the neighbors are very quiet.  We never hear them.  We don’t even hear the water pipes in the walls as we have in some places we have lived.