9 a.m. Saturday. My daughter (who doesn’t even get off work until 3 a.m. or later) and I were rudely awakened from our sleep-in by very loud, very obnoxious leaf blowers operating beneath our bedroom windows. I peer out the window and what to my wondering eyes should appear, but two gardeners in my next-door neighbor’s yard, doing her yardwork. That’s not even the worst of it. My formerly locked gate was standing wide open as they had obviously gone through my private backyard to get into her yard. In order to get to her yard, since she only has a gate into my yard and not to the outside, they twisted the hasp and broken into my yard!

I stormed down to confront them and they told me my neighbor gave them permission to be there. I told them if she wanted them in her yard doing work, she needed to let them into her yard through her apartment and that my yard was private.

Now, I would have cooperated with my neighbor had she:

1) had the courtesy to ask me, and
2) not scheduled her yard work for a time when my daughter is getting sleep after working so late.

Now my neighbor is miffed with me.

Question: is her being an obnoxious neighbor a hanging offense? What about using leafblowers under someone’s bedroom window at 9 $#%^ing a.m. on a Saturday morning while we’re having a lie-in?