Sunday morning and sleeping peacefully. I’m nice and warm, it’s dark and dreary outside. What a good day to sleep in right? All of a sudden I hear a LOUD and I do mean loud truck. It sounded like a tanker actually, coming down the street and stopping in front of my house. I roll over and look at the clock, it reads 7:45 am. A couple of things go through my mind. It’s Sunday, no landscapers, no lawn service, what could it possible be? I don’t really care, I just want to get back to sleep. Then the pumping starts. What the hell is this? Grudgingly I get out of bed to look out the bedroom window.
I was correct. It was a tank, the kind you see on highways filled with gasoline. Only this one was filled with water and it was pumping water into the pool at the house across the street. I’m a little ticked at this point, come on do they really have to do this before 8:00 am on a Sunday morning? Going back to bed was useless now since the noise was quite loud so I head downstairs to the kitchen and make coffee.
About 20 minutes later, drinking my coffee and WIDE AWAKE I hear the tanker driving away. Much to my dismay….to another house in the same vicinity!
So here we are on a chilly Michigan morning, the furnace is running, temps in the 40′s and people are filling their pools! But hey we’re up to a whopping 55° now, maybe by Memorial Day weekend these people might have a chance of using them. That’s being extremely optimistic though, it is after all Michigan.
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Pools in MI is like having pools in the Northeast kingdom of VT…unbelievable. Hope you don’t have a pool. if you do…no offense.
Hi Elaine !!!
Hope your week end was a super one,
to bad you couldn’t have slept a little longer this morning.
I remember a time when no one delivered anything on
a Sunday, but today it’s just like any other day.
Wishing you a safe and great week my dear friend !
Kirk – it amazes me how many people here have pools. It’s definitely not a selling point as a homeowner. And NO we don’t have one.
Tom – good reminder, I remember those days too. No one ever dreamed of turning on a lawn mower or doing anything noisy on a Sunday morning.
OMGOSH!!! That is just unreal! On a SUNDAY??
We don’t even start playing around in our gardens until after the Noon hour! LOL!
Rusty would freak out if he heard a lawn mower or other loud noise before the crack of dawn on a Sunday Morning.
Knowing Rusty, he would find a way to nicely let the neighbor know just how inconsiderate he thought all the early morning noise was. ;o) LOL!
I hope that next weekend you get to sleep in as long as you want.
Lu
It sure didn’t feel like pool weather today!!! 40 degrees, when will it end?
Over here in Hamburg, on Sundays, nothing gets delivered, (no shops are open either), but you can’t expect to sleep after 9:30, because the church bells start… every half hour or so for about five minutes till around noon.
I can still hear grandma grumbling and fussing when the weather forecast called for rain on Monday and dad would bale the hay on Sunday. Certainly not something that happened very often but it was looked down on when it did.
Wow! 55 degrees and they are filling their pools? It gets to the 80′s here during the day now, and some people still don’t even have their pools going yet… Maybe your neighbors are using “the secret”??!! Or some sort of wishful thinking?? LOL… Maybe the temp will reach 90 today
If it does, you be sure and let me know! 
Wishing you some better sleep and peaceful Sunday mornings…
On a Sunday morning?? That’s just wrong.
I hope it warms up a bit for you there. It’s been in the mid 80s here for about a week. I wish it would stay there, but oh it will get so hot in a few weeks! Ugh!
Have a good week!
God bless
Elaine,
First, thanks for the current Trans-fat info! Next, I want to say that your weather is even colder than ours…lol. Anyway, that is ridiculous about the pool fillers doing it on a Sunday. It reminds of those annoying phone solicitors that call on weekends and weekday evenings right as you sit down for dinner. All terribly annoying!
We also have robins feeding and training their young in our yard…but that bunny family sounds adorable…and I wish I could see pictures!
Hope you have a great week, my friend!
Hugs,
Beth
Hmm… Sunday mornings are always quiet on Seattle’s eastside. Sometimes you’ll hear a mower around 11 AM but very rarely.
I’m up early on Sunday mornings, but I’m a morning person. And there is nothing quite like a cup o’ Joe, the Sunday paper, and CBS’ Sunday Morning.
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Oh, and I’ve gotta tell you, I luv being able to edit my comments. That is soooo cool.
Good heavens… you still have that cold of weather….. I can’t even imagine thinking of swimming in a pool if it was that cold. I need HOT weather. Too bad he ruined your sleep in day… Hope all is going well otherwise. Vallerie
Oh yeah, thats definitely a GRRRR moment! Well, I hope you get to sleep in next Sunday… ummm, you may want to do a neighborhood poll first. To see who else needs water in their pool!?! LOL. Have a great week.
Elaine, you would think that a week with 6 work days would be sufficient to accomplish everything. Apparently not, I had neighbors doing their roof on Sunday and wake up everyone. There is no more respect. Too bad for your nice sleep. Take care, luv, Pauline
Well there seems to be a consensus, it’s RUDE to do this sort of activity that early on a Sunday morning. Be it pool filling, roofing, lawn mowing whatever!
Karen – maybe Hamburg has the right idea. By no shops open does that include restaurants and cafe’s? I’m thinking not.
Thanks everyone for the comments
Hi, just dropin’ by your space to say hello.
Hope you get better sleep-
Ossy
Hi, from Hamburg again ~
Cafés and restaurants are open on Sundays. It’s everything else that’s closed. Some bakeries are open for a couple of hours in the morning. Germans love their fresh Brotchen and cake! When I first came here, all shops closed by 12 or 1:00 on Saturdays, and that was it till Monday. Now some of the shops are open a bit later on Saturdays… big supermarkets and department stores. Smaller shops still close around 1:00 on Saturdays too.
OMG you have got to be kidding me! Before 8am on a Sunday morning???? UNREAL! I can’t imagine the urgency of jumping into a pool in 50ish weather so as to wake the neighbors up for it. GRR